Christmas Planning
The festive calendar really ticked over yesterday: just five weeks until Christmas. While shopping malls have had decorations up and yuletide tunes playing since the start of November, consumers throughout New Zealand can really now starting thinking about managing their Christmas this year.
Planning your Christmas needs to start early, so it’s a good idea to start a list now. Cook a Christmas meal, or order everything from the deli the day before? Decorate the Christmas tree with last year’s ornaments, or take advantage of the many stores already offering discounted Christmas products? Buy New Zealand made products, or imported gifts? Decisions, decisions! NZS.com is here to help you out with many of your common Christmas queries, and we’ll be regularly featuring tips and articles on the blog in the lead up to Santa’s visit.
While we’re five weeks out, you should get onto planning your Christmas party and start putting together your Christmas cards list. More tips to come next week!
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December 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
It’s an excellent idea, in these fragile economic times, to buy things made in New Zealand – but how do we know?
It would be a real hassle to seek out, on every item, the country of origin. Better, I believe, to make a point of asking the shop to clearly mark NZ Made products. In fact if enough people contacted The Warehouse, Farmers and other leading department stores, we might persuade them to have a special sticker on all our own products.
We NEED to support local industries, especially now.