In every Christmas season, besides shopping for Christmas gifts for your family and friends, you’ll likely send out many Christmas cards. So, instead of waiting until the last minute like every other year go ahead and start preparing your Christmas list now. You should first make a list of everyone you need to send a Christmas card to. Once you have the list then you will know how much holiday stationary to buy. Of course, if you aren’t into holiday stationery then there are other options you want to explore too. For example, you may choose to use boxed Christmas cards, which are very popular. Now that you have your Christmas card list together you are ready to create your gift list. Figure out how much money you will spend on each person and then total it up. If it seems like too much then take $5 off the price of each gift. You can easily buy the same gift for $5 less if you shop sales and pay attention to discounts. Coming up with Christmas gift ideas isn’t as harder as you think if you plan early on. For your college kids, the gift could be greek clothing.