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Festival Budget Shopping – Mommy Tips

September 23, 2017
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Festivals bring joy, happiness, harmony, celebrations, and togetherness. Being in India makes it little more special as the festivals here bring cheers and also loads of colors, fun, and frolic. Along with some dedicated planning & preparations.

I remember the days from my childhood when mother along with aunts and other members would start preparing for festivals well in advance. From making the lists of things-to-do, planning dishes, listing the gifts, deciding on dresses etc. It was fun for us for sure, but never understood the planning and scheduling gone into it then.

Today, when I am in my mother’s shoes (umm.. flip-flops here) planning the festival agenda is much trouble-less and uncomplicated. All thanks to lots of options available today online & offline.

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Festival Shopping requires proper planning and exploring. Checking different avenues of getting good stuff for home-furnishing as well fashion at affordable prices without compromising on quality and style.

Budget Festival Shopping for Home & Kitchen

Home furnishing and kitchen needs are the first priority for me when it comes to festivals. Of course home must look good and appealing when guests arrive plus best should come our from kitchen too.

  1. I believe in recycling with little addition of new, take handy help from DIY tips available online we can create magic from old also. Just by adding new colored LED lights into empty jam jars from your kitchen can add magic into living room & decor.
  2. Check out the local markets for special days – here in Mumbai we have budhwaar bazaar (Wednesday open market) where villagers get their local produce and sell at a real good bargain. I have got many artifacts from such open day fairs.
  3.  Factory Outlets is not always for seconds – I love exploring factory outlets during festivals seasons, just last time around Diwali a Top class home furnishing brand of India gave away world-class carpets & rugs at throwaway prizes. It was a fair loot 😉
  4. Fill kitchen ration on the SALE days at hyper stores or supermarkets, like every Wednesday Big Bazaar gives amazing offers & discounts on groceries. HYPERCity also gives cashback offers and huge discounts on in-house brands. I fill up my quota of dry fruits, snacks, daily staples, during such discounted days.

Budget Fashion shopping for the entire family

Festival time everyone expects new dresses and best of fashion to flaunt around, we have been to this at our age and now kids demand the same. Latest in the list is a gown like the frozen princess – Elsa! Here, I follow footsteps of my mother and plan in advance; New and fancy dresses for every occasion beginning from Navratri, then Karva-Chauth to Diwali, Christmas & New – Year Eve.

SALE SALE SALE –

this is the best time to plan in advance and save money for the right time to spend; every big brand banner comes with best of SALES during festival times – Shoppers Stop, Lifestyle, Pantaloons, Marks & Spences, Centrals, you name it and they have offers to invite you. I plan my shopping list ahead of these sales and spend checking the best prices offered.

Online –

I am online window shopping addict; love exploring multiple windows at different shopping apps and comparing the best discounts, prices offered. Myntra, Amazon fashion, Flipkart, Shopclues, Paytm, Snapdeal these are just a few famous online shopping apps to fill your shopping carts and bring home goodies without much sweat.

Refurbished –

YES! I had this old benarsi saree of a mother which gave away due to age and was torn just a bit in middle. Loved the pastel green color and silk was still intact well, hence I spoke to my designer friend and she transformed that beautiful saree into a straight long kurta to be paired with slim pants. I saved here on buying SILK which would have been costed a bomb, and luckily for me, pants got matched from my stash itself.

Make-up & Accessories –

Check out for giveaways on Instagram or Facebook pages of fellow beauty bloggers or brands offering heavy discounts on purchase from their stock. For accessories, handicraft fairs offer huge options and again come up with handy bargains.

These are just a few tips from my board when it comes to festival budget shopping, the whole idea is to Plan, Schedule and Execute on time. Also, talking about money and saving at the same time also teach the most valuable lesson to kids – Save money for better. Do share your valuable tips on How You Plan To Spend & Save During Festivals.

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Thus ‘tiffin recipes’ for kids, becomes a very important factor that introduces a variety of foods to kids and helps in building their food preferences. Therefore, while focusing on preparation is a must, ensuring that it is packed well is not secondary either. Packing a variety in kids tiffins is possible only when one has sleek, modular, liquid-tight tiffin containers which kids would love to carry to school. In Indian cuisine, a typical meal consists of  ‘dal/lentils, roti/chapati, rice, dry seasonal vegetable, and salad’. But, one cannot expect small children to carry/ accommodate bulky, multi-tiered lunch boxed in their tiny school bags. Hence, mothers often look for the modular options. Along with being sleek, handy and light to carry, these tiffin boxes should appeal to the eye and if you throw in their favorite cartoons and caricatures in tiffin design, that’s a cherry on the cake.

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Tupperware – MyLunch is the best quality tiffin box for kids and also offers solution for the entire family –

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Congratulations on the wedding! I hope you have had the best day of your life with all your close friends and family and for sure, now it’s time to thank them for being there for the happy couple. Even those who couldn’t be there on your big day deserve a note to know they have been dearly missed.

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For the ones, you need to thank for giving a specific gift

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For the ones, you need to thank for a cash gift

“From the deepest of our heart, we would like to thank for sharing our special day with us. We are looking forward to our honeymoon in Greece and this wouldn’t have been possible without your generous gift. Thank you again!”

Special touch – A personalized Thank You card isn’t just about the words you write, it’s also about the special care you take for every little detail. Going for a custom envelope, for example, is a great way to show you care. At Basic Invite, you get over 40 different colors for envelopes to make sure your note stands out before it’s even opened by the recipient. It comes in a peel and seal style that ensures the envelopes are quickly and securely closed.

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For general thank you message

“Thank you for celebrating with us as we began our new life together. We are grateful for your presence and warm wishes. We look forward to many more happy memories with you!”

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