Girls Night Out

Hey-Hey-Hey! Let’s talk a little bit about Creative Holiday Gift Ideas… with Groupon! I love Groupon. As a result of their awesome sauce deals, I’ve tried new restaurants, gone to a shooting range, bought tanning packages and MORE! It’s a great way to save and try new things!. Read more

Creative Ways to Gift

Gift giving is really fun assuming you can find the perfect gift that you know the recipient will love! (Like my mom and her annual calendar!) But, let’s face it, some folks are really hard to buy for because well, they buy everything they need and want themselves (Andy!). Read more

Fun Way to Give a Gift Certificate

Every year, we resort to giving ‘items’ – things that will eventually go into that toy-box or closet. One of the best toys that we can give is the gift of an experience. I love this, because unlike a gift that just lays around or becomes unused within a week or two, an experience will last a lifetime, in a memory. Plus, spending time with the ones that you love is what makes life worth living. Read more

Family Photoshoot Experience

‘Tis the season for getting family photos taken, Christmas cards, holiday shopping, and gift giving! We decided to combine almost all of that into one special family photoshoot experience recently! Read more

Give a Family Experience this Christmas

My favorite gifts are the ones we can experience as a family. The kind that don’t add to our collection of “things”. Last year we received movie tickets from a family member and it was the best gift! Read more

Gluten Free Gifts

One of my sister-in-laws is gluten-free, so I thought it would be fun to get her a surprise box of gluten free goodies each month with an awesome deal I found on Groupon! That’s three months full of gluten free gifts! Read more

The Perfect Holiday Gift

It’s always such a great feeling when you find that perfect Christmas gift for everyone on your list. Sometimes, it’s harder to find that perfect something for some people than it is for others. But, whether you live right next door to the giftee or across the country, there’s one thing you can give them that they’ll sure to love. Read more

Give the Gift of Family Fun

Once a week my daughter hosts a house full of teenagers for game night. I love how she welcomes all of my grandson’s friends into their home, providing a place for them to have good clean fun. She and her husband lovingly prepare snacks for the kids, and sacrifice a good bit of sleep. I’ve heard that these game nights sometimes run into the wee hours of the morning. Read more

Gifting Memories

A memory. Something that we can do together. Get us up and out of the house. Enter Groupon . While it is everyone's all time favorite deal site, they have experiences that you can purchase, at a discount that make the absolute perfect gift. Read more

Gift a Groupon Necklace

Do you have someone in your life that is hard to give a gift? Maybe they already have everything? Or maybe you can never find the right color or size… so you just end up giving them something you hope they’ll like, and then giving them the gift receipt so they can exchange it. This year, Groupon is a great way to give gifts to those tricky people on your gift list! Read more

Holiday Go Karting

Have you ever been go karting? If not . . . you absolutely need to go! It’s one of the most fun things ever and I love it. So can imagine that when I found out my neighbors had never gone, I immediately had to fix the situation. Michael and Missy have been amazing neighbors to me, so I decided to give them a Groupon to Andretti’s here in Atlanta as a holiday gift. Read more

My New Favorite Way to Gift

Holiday shopping can be daunting – it’s never easy to find gifts for everyone on your list, let alone gifts that are unique and special. This year do something a little different that your friends and family will really appreciate – give them experiences. This is the kind of gift that they’ll always remember! Read more

Making Memories for Christmas

My girls have been begging me since last Christmas season to take them ice skating! Here in Southern California we are lucky to see rain let alone snow, so having a Girl’s Day Out ~ Winter Wonderland day was just what I decided to surprise them with for an early Christmas gift. Read more

Holiday Gift Giving

Shopping for the holidays can always be a daunting task. I am one of those people who enjoys surprising someone with an awesome gift. This year I am going to have a little fun with my gift giving while saving a bit of money as well. This year my Holiday Gift Giving will be done with the help of Groupon. Read more

Gift Giving with Groupon

I recently shared with you the surprise date night that I gave my husband as an early Christmas present, and with the help of Groupon I was able to give gifts to a couple other people on our list this year too. Read more

Gifting Experiences

I grew up in a large family where we do a sibling gift exchange for Christmas. Because there are 6 of us, we don’t gift to everyone, but we rotate through so we gift to someone different each year. We generally do a couple’s gift since everyone (except for me now) is married. Read more

Date Night for Christmas

It’s time to reinstate date night. There was a time when we went out every Saturday night. Friday nights too. With a Thursday night thrown in here and there. Dinner and drinks. Sometimes solo. Sometimes with friends. Read more

Wine Tasting Gift Package

Have you finished your Christmas shopping?? Chances are most of you still have a few “hard ones” to buy for, so I have a suggestion. Give a gift that they will remember. Have they always wanted to try something or do they have a passion for something that you could DO with them? Read more

Creative Ways to Give Memories

Is it just me, or does the thought of bringing new toys and gadgets into the home feel a little….too much? I hate that regretful feeling you get when you spend money on gifts for your children, only to see that item collect dust far too soon in the future. This year we decided to do things differently. Read more

Couples Gift Idea

After nearly eleven years of marriage, I’m running out of gift ideas for my husband. He really doesn’t need any more “stuff,” but I still love to surprise him with the perfect gift. So to celebrate a recent accomplishment at work (and as an early anniversary gift), I decided to get him an “experience” gift I found on Groupon. Read more

DIY Snow Globe

Things. We often go shopping for things during Christmas time. I am really wanting to embrace the idea of giving people time and experiences this Christmas. I know! It sounds hard to wrap in a pretty package and put under the tree, but this is where a little creativity comes into play. Read more

Perfect Gift for Someone with Everything

My husband is one of the hardest people to shop for. Sure he likes a broad variety of things but he buys just about everything he needs! That means that I usually end up getting him either an electronic he’d probably purchase for himself anyway or a tool of some sort. Read more

Simplify the Holidays

The Holidays are here, which means it’s time to get gifts for those special people in your life. But with that comes a lot of stress because you want to find the perfect gift for those people in your life. Read more

Creating Memories

I count myself lucky to have good friends. But I admit that I often allow myself to get too busy to take the time to just hang out with them. (Why is it so hard to take time to be with friends? After all, it is a lot more fun than getting caught up with work!) This year, while beginning my search for holiday gifts, I decided to give my friend the gift of a fun activity — just for the two of us. Read more

Creative Ways to Gift Groupon

I am not one for hitting the stores at 6 am to find the best deals on gifts for my family and friends. I am much more the person to stay home, cozy and relaxed and order presents from my phone or computer. I find the same great deals without fighting crowds and getting stressed out! Read more

Wine Delivery!

Do you have anyone on your list who is just plain hard to buy gifts for? You know, the person who has everything and wants nothing? That’s my parents. They’re awesome, and they do so much for us, but giving them gifts is always a challenge! Read more

Creative Christmas Ideas

I love giving experiences gifts. In fact, one of the most popular posts on my blog is the one titled 25 Non-Toy Gift Ideas in which I shared how we try to scale our Christmas gift giving to favor experience gifts over toy gifts. Read more

8 Christmas Eve Tradition Ideas

Every family has different holiday traditions and I know our Christmas Eve might not look like most. I wanted to add a little something to ours this year so I put together a list of eight Christmas Eve Tradition Ideas! Read more

Our Eventful Date Night

My husband is a hard person to buy gifts for, so this year as an early Christmas present I decided to surprise him with a date night with the help of Groupon. This was our last opportunity to go on a date before our baby would be born, and since we had family in town to help with our other kids, I thought this would be the perfect gift. Read more

Dinner and a Movie

Giving gifts to friends or family members with families of their own can be tough. It is hard to find something to give to them that can work for the entire family. One solution I have found is to shop on Groupon for my gifts. There are so many fun, local experiences that you can give to a family, instead of some random board game you found on sale. Read more

Give Experiences this Year

It’s time for Holiday shopping and I’ve been busy coming up with creative, fun and thoughtful gifts for my loved ones this year. I try to find gifts that the recipient wouldn’t normally purchase for themselves. I want my family members to open their gifts and feel really special. In the next few weeks I will be sharing some great “experience” gifts that I will be giving this year with the help of Groupon. Read more

Wine Tasting Night Out

I was a new parent once, granted many years ago, but I remember the self-deprivation we brought upon ourselves because we couldn’t imagine leaving our perfect little bundle of joy with someone else so that we could go out and enjoy ourselves. Yes, that was part of it. Read more