Giving a card to a youngfamily which entitles them to emergency baby-sitting time, for example, will result insavings for both families. Make more gifts at home. A freshly baked loaf of bread, cookies, jar of jam, pot of springbulbs, snack mix, dry herbs, smoked fish or pickles are always appreciated. Also, acollage of photographs, a tape recording of family history, needlework, a poem, orcollection of your favorite recipes can be appreciated gifts. At office parties and other functions where you might be asked to provide a gift, suggestthat instead of gifts, people bring canned food for the homeless or disadvantaged.
Gift wrapping can become costly, but is easy to economize.
Above all, have a plan and stick to it. If you stay with your holiday spending game plan,you won't go broke and end up spending all of 2001 paying for the holidays of 2000. Dec 3 USU Music Department, Bands Holiday Concert. USU and public school students with valid ID areadmitted free. Dec 4 USU Music Department, Logan Canyon Winds concert.