Smiles + Co Blog — Recommendations

If you're balling on a budget and looking for thoughtful gifts for the ladies in your life this Christmas, then you've come to the right place! My last blog post, Holiday Gift Guide of 25 Great Gift Ideas For Him Under $25, gives some more insight on my thought process for these gift guides.  All of the gift ideas that I've included are under $25 at the time of me posting this. There are a couple of variations of things that are included in both of the 25 Under $25 guides, because I truly believe that those ideas make wonderful gifts for both...

Since it seems to be a lot easier to find great gifts when no expense is spared, I decided to come up with some gift ideas that are nice yet inexpensive! I'm pretty excited to share this gift guide with you because it's full of an eclectic variety of meaningful, funny and/or practical things! 

I absolutely love it!  Gift cards are one of my most favorite gifts to give and receive! It surprises me that they are still getting a bad rap in this day and age, and that there are still people out there saying that gift cards are "impersonal." For those of you who are thoughtful gift givers and choose to give gift cards to your loved ones, I am here to validate you!  To get someone a gift card to a place they enjoy going to is to show them that you truly know and listen to them. I would even...

The idea for this post came to me the other day when we went to Universal Studios after 4pm on a very hot and humid Fall day. Living in Orlando and being annual pasholders at both Disney and Universal, I know it is a luxury that we are able to pop into these amazing theme parks for a couple of hours when it's convenient for us. In all honesty, Disney World was the main reason I moved here in the first place but I absolutely despise the weather here most days. The heat, the prices and the crowd volume have...

This post and photos may contain Amazon or other affiliate links for your convenience. If you make a purchase after clicking a link, I will earn a small commission at no extra charge for you. For my niece’s fourth Birthday, we gave her swimming lessons! I thought it might be helpful to share how I did this because giving experience gifts can be more difficult to give than physical gifts. This post is going to cover four ways that you can give experiences as gifts. I originally started coming up with reasons that experiences make good gifts. However, I realized...