Finding Your Way: Holiday Gifting Without Breaking Your Budget
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Every holiday shopping season seems to be more hectic than the last. Sure, you promised yourself you would start early last Christmas, but here we are, looking Autumn in the eyes and we're not one step closer to a saner Christmas than we were last year at this time, but wait!.
Finding Your Way - holiday shopping without breaking your budget, a quick-read from author Rebecca Harmon, follows her usual playbook of creating your list, and making it happen. Just in time to save yourself from another frenzied and stressed-out holiday season, she presents her simple and logical method and assures readers that there is still time to plan your holiday shopping to maximize your gift-giving and minimize the stress and credit-card debt.
Especially useful for over-scheduled and budget-conscious families, this method is based on an old family habit that Rebecca picked up from her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents: making a list and sticking to it. She also shares her own insight into what's really important at the holiday season and how she refocused her priorities to make the love shared at Christmas something available to her family year-round.
Rebecca Harmon
I am a healthcare professional, educator, writer, US Navy veteran, mother and grandmother. I live in Pittsburgh, PA and I'm never without a small posse of rescued pets. I spent my earliest working years with my sister and parents as we traveled juried craft shows where our artist/glassblower father enchanted crowds with demonstrations in hot glass and our mother expertly narrated the demonstrations telling stories about the origins of glass and then selling the unique pieces of art. Providing breaks and the occasional time off for my mother, I served as a cashier and sales rep in the business and still remember the "Craft Show Years" with fondness. Those early years (I was younger than 15) helped hone my intense curiosity about work, careers and doing what you love. They also provided me with a rich context for writing based on the very unique circumstances as well as the people we met and interacted with in those years. After serving 6 years on active duty in the US Navy (Hospital Corpsman) - many years after the craft shows - I went on to earn a bachelor's degree in health information management at the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon. I have worked as an academic dean for a community college, a faculty member in both the community college and university setting and as an academic consultant for various organizations. Recently I returned to my original professional life, working in healthcare. While blogging, writing and speaking to groups about a variety of topics is my great passion; I can also be found listed in local college course catalogs as an adjunct professor because interacting with students keeps me grounded and real. It also gives me a steady stream of terrific character ideas.
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Finding Your Way - Rebecca Harmon
FINDING YOUR WAY
holiday gifting without breaking your budget
By
Rebecca Harmon
SMASHWORDS EDITION
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Finding Your Way: holiday gifting without breaking your budget
Copyright © 2014 by Rebecca Harmon
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Many thanks go out to my Coach-in-Chief, Amy Harmon Krtanjek – also known as my sister who is reliably all-in
on my many projects; this one is no exception. My gratitude also goes out to my family, especially my children Diana & Jordan who have tolerated, supported and encouraged my numerous creative adventures
over the years, and to my parents who started all of this many years ago with their own creative journeys, and who have been an inspiration as well as invaluable sounding boards for this and many other ideas & adventures. I love you all.
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FINDING YOUR WAY
holiday gifting without breaking your budget
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Introduction
As I publish this short booklet, the Labor Day weekend in the United States is upon us. Summer heat and humidity has eased into nights with a welcome chill, while choruses of locusts serenade us in preparation for the impending change of season.
It's also that time of year when many of us look