Christmas Gifts

Christmas time is right around the corner and there is so much to do and so many gifts to buy! ! I absolutely love shopping and buying gifts for other people!! This is my favorite of all seasons and my favorite things to do! Seeing all the smiling happy faces as they open the presents, nothing is better, especially little kids reactions to it! Anyways I know that it can be a lot of money to buy all those gifts for people so I  thought I would talk about all the great places to shop and small gift ideas you can get for people that are general but still can seem more personalized then getting everyone just the same m&ms in a candy cane and hot chocolate for people every year!
My first suggestion would be don't go to the mall. Unless you know something specific there that you want, it is way to overwhelming to go their first. I suggest somewhere like target where they have a lot of things you need and for pretty cheap as well! The variety of things makes it way easier and you don't have to run from store to store! After that if you don't find something there that you need then you should go to a specific store.
I know that buy gifts can be expensive and people, especially high schoolers don't have a lot of money to spend but I am really not a fan of home made gifts. I am okay with written letter with the gift, but lets me honest a lot of homemade gifts…suck. That not to say I haven't got good ones in the past or anything cause I have and that's great. But for example, the layered food in a jar to make some recipe..no thanks. When high schooler give that I get semi confused if we are old ladies who are making it for their get tougher coffee days or..? Anyways my point is not to be rude or sound snobby but I'm just saying be careful with the homemade gifts. Think will this person actually use this if I make it for them.
When buying presents if you don't know what to get them just look around for things and if it remind you of them some how or you have a memory that goes with them and that item,  and they can get use out of it then that's your item most likely! I tend to avoided getting everyone like the same thing in like different colors or versions of that item. It makes it very  not personal. Over all you don't need to spend that much but just make sure it something you know they will enjoy and actually get use of and love a lot! The goal of Christmas is to spreading cheer and what better way then with a great gift!