gifts

These Maine-made gift boxes are perfect for friends, kids away at college, family members, and anyone who loves Vacationland!

Have you had your office Christmas party yet? If not and a Yankee Swap is in your future, here's some good gift ideas. And some that should be avoided. If you are unfamiliar with a Yankee swap, here's how it works. Each participant brings a wrapped, unmarked gift and places it in a designated area...

There's the usual: some kind of power tool that will be added to the ever growing collection, a new wallet (that he only accepts because he doesn't want to hurt your feelings when he'd really rather keep the broken in one)... a coffee thermos, a new fishing pole, a hunting jacket or...

Spending Christmas money on toys, clothes and electronic items can spread your budget thin unless you have the money to spend. Some people do and they spend on things that’s hard to believe.

We are always looking for the perfect Christmas present for the one we love, coworkers and friends. Some people can come with the perfect gift for everyone while some people have a hard time picking out a gift.

Walter and Leslie Kimmel, who live in a retirement community in Maryland, celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary on August 18th. The couple was married in 1940. Both are 100 years old.

While they may be Oscar ‘losers, they still walk away with a nice bag of goodies. This year, the nominees that didn’t win the big prize still received $160,000 in gifts.

Christmas present buying is at crunch time now but you still should put some thought into the present and who it for. What do they like, what would they actually use. There are a lot of unwanted gifts that are bought during this time of the year and according from years past, here are the gifts people hope not to receive.

Something that has been building for a couple of years and now has reached an all-time high is ‘self-gifting’. There has been a 27% jumping in the last 5 years of people buying gifts for their own personal use. They usually spend $237 on self-gifting.

According to letters to Santa from 1913 and compared to letters from 2013, Christmas gifts that children requested are quite different. First the wish list from children in 1913.

For Christmas, Chad's mom, Jackie Hood, gave me the ULTIMATE gift! I've always wanted one and I couldn't believe what I saw when I took off the wrapping paper! AN ICE CREAM MAKER! Oh, this is going to be a yummy 2013.