How to afford all of these wedding showers, wedding gifts, baby showers, graduations?

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#1 written by me40
about 2 years ago

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Start doing crafts or pick and choose who’s thing u go to or get a box and any time you have a few extra dollars look in the clearance departments and pick stuff up that might be able to use. i also set a limit 5 to ten bucks per gift. i make my cards by using index cards then stamps or stickers to use as a gift card.
#2 written by it's not for you
about 2 years ago

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Even when your not invited to a wedding or baby shower or graduation, etc. be on the lookout for good deals. You can always find them when your not invited to something, but if you will get them when you see them, and put them up, you won’t have that problem when the invite comes.
#3 written by Upper10th
about 2 years ago

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When I was in your situation, I just sent cards. I looked up quotations to handwrite onto the cards, and I added personal thoughts or other things to make them nicer. Walgreen’s has nice-looking blank cards at about $1.50/box of twelve, and dollar store sell specific-occasion cards at 2/$1.
Send regrets (phone or write to say you’re sorry but you can’t be there) for the showers and for any other parties you can’t afford to attend. Remind yourself (and others if necessary) that gifts are never required or owed. It feels strange to send no gifts, but sometimes personal circumstances make it necessary. Depending whose party it is, explain that your finances are too tight to allow you to attend. Most people understand that situation nowadays.
If possible, make offers to help such as doing behind-the-scenes work for some of those parties (you could help serve food or you could look after children during a wedding or shower, for example). That way, you’ll be with your family even though you can’t attend as guest.
Try to keep cheerful about this. This stage will pass and one day you’ll be in better shape to afford to do more.
#4 written by Gerald
about 2 years ago

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Coupons as a gift can a good idea for you because there are sites online that offer discounted coupons on wide variety of choices. Such as this discounted travel coupons.

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