Christmas presents: Personalized, reusable containers for holiday gift baskets

Why is it that gift baskets always come in a basket? Baskets make pretty, useful containers, but how about personalized reusable gift baskets in which the container is part of the present? Below is a list of reusable gift containers. Use a decorative cardboard storage box for Christmas presents. Choose round boxes with a corded lid (the kind that were originally used as hat boxes). Choose a pattern that's personalized to the recipient's tastes. . Family Dollar and Dollar General sell sturdy decorative cardboard boxes or make your own decorative boxes by covering cardboard boxes with wrapping paper. Or decoupage magazine pictures on boxes. Use these containers for beauty products, bath and body gift baskets.  Christmas presents: Personalized, reusable containers for holiday gift baskets

Frugal holiday shopping tips: Save money on budget Christmas presents | Examiner.com

The holiday season celebrates the best in mankind, whatever holiday you celebrate. But gift-giving holidays also brings out the worst in people: greed, lack of self-control, over-indulgence, burnout. If you overspend in December, plan on heartache in January. Here are 25 frugal holiday shopping tips and ways to save money on budget Christmas presents. The original fru-gal shares penny-pinching tricks and money-management skills to keep you from feeling the pinch come New Year's Day!  Frugal holiday shopping tips: Save money on budget Christmas presents | Examiner.com

Coca-Cola anti-obesity group closes: GEBN misled in no-diet weight loss claims

Global Energy Balance Network, a Coca-Cola anti-obesity group, is closing down after it was found that GEBN misled in its no-diet weight loss claims. Time magazine reported on Dec. 1, that the media could be responsible for this closure. News sources went after the Coca-Cola backed obesity initiative when it told people that they could lose weight without diet, using exercise alone. No-diet weight loss has always intrigued obese people who don't want to change how they eat to lose weight. The GEBN plan seemed like manna from heaven. But alas, it was just a pie crust promise (easily made, easily broken). Exercise-only weight loss plans fly in the face of medical knowledge and also practical weight loss experience. No-diet weight loss might sound like a great plan, but it doesn't work. Just about every person who has lost weight--other than through illness--and kept it off has had to amend her eating habits.   Coca-Cola anti-obesity group closes: GEBN misled in no-diet weight loss claims | Examiner.com