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Sunday

Valentine Gifts: Finding The Best Fragrances For Less

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While a shaky economy may wisely inspire you to do without some extras, one item a woman would be foolish to forsake is her favorite perfume.

For many women, perfume is an essential accessory that elevates the mood and inspires self-confidence. Fortunately, if you know where to find fragrance for less, you can keep your favorite scent and economize, too.

Great sources include stores that specialize in fragrance at reduced prices. Some fragrance sites offer the most popular scents at a significant reduction.

For example, Perfumania.com
, a prominent online fragrance retailer, specializes in the sale of genuine designer fragrances, bath and body, cosmetics and skin products and related gifts and accessories for men, women and children for less.

The site's fragrance consultants are trained to provide customers with personalized service and expert advice about today's most popular fragrances, as well as the classics and hard-to-find fragrances.

For more information, visit Perfumania.com
.

If your favorite scent seems a little pricey, check out a discount site that offers popular fragrances for less. Fragrance Sale! Extra 20% off Specially Marked Gift Sets!

Friday

Support Women's Heart Health This Valentine's Day

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Giving a gift from the heart is a lot easier this Valentine's Day

Help a leading fashion accessories brand, Swarovski, raise awareness about women's heart health by purchasing red and heart-shaped jewelry items from its 2009 Go Red For Women® Collection. The company will donate a minimum contribution of $150,000 from the sales of this collection to the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women movement.

The company has donated more than $1.6 million to the issue of women and heart disease awareness through partnerships with the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women movement and national sponsorship of The Heart Truth campaign's Red Dress Collection.

For the fifth year, it will co-sponsor The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection 2009 Fashion Show at New York Fashion Week to raise awareness about women and heart disease. The show will debut red dresses, including a one-of-a-kind Daniel Swarovski dress, and jewelry created exclusively for The Heart Truth.

To help achieve better heart health, the American Heart Association offers a few tips:

• Choose good nutrition. A healthy diet is one of the best weapons you have to fight cardiovascular disease. A diet rich in vegetables, fruits, whole-grain and high-fiber foods, fish, lean protein and fat-free or low-fat dairy products is the key.

• Be physically active every day. Research has shown that getting at least 30 minutes of physical activity on five or more days of the week can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol and keep weight at a healthy level.

For more information, visit www.swarovski.com.

The pendant is part of a collection that includes pins, earrings, bracelets and charms.

This red dress pin is part of a collection that will help benefit women's heart health.

Find a very special gift! Try the new Swarovski Gift Finder at www.swarovski.com

Wednesday

Baking Cookies: A Budget-Stretching Gift Idea

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Saving money on holiday gifts can be delicious-especially if you cut costs by baking tasty homemade cookies.

It's easier and less expensive than you might imagine. Baking cookies literally costs pennies, and it's the kind of mouthwatering gift people remember.

For example, a dozen pecan chocolate chip cookies can be made for around one dollar, while refrigerated cookie dough cookies cost almost 50 cents more and a package of bakery chocolate chip cookies can cost around $5.00 per dozen, depending on where you live.

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Peanut butter cookies can be baked at home for about 50 cents a dozen and cost as much as chocolate chip ones at the bakery.

Once you have gathered all the ingredients, it probably takes less time to bake up several batches of cookies than you might spend wandering around the mall.

It's a great way to get yourself in the holiday spirit. Just turn on the holiday music, make yourself a cup of cocoa and get in the holiday mood.

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Making cookies is a great seasonal activity for the whole family. Even the smallest children can press a cookie cutter or help stir cookie dough.

When the cookies are done, find a clever way to wrap them up.

• Wrap them in colorful tissue paper.

• Give them in holiday tins. You can find new tins in stores or vintage ones at tag sales.

• Arrange them in a basket.

• Decorate a gift box with a collage of images or cutout letters of the person's name.

• Fill a Mason jar and attach a ribbon.

A sweet way to get together with friends and family, create great, inexpensive gifts and have a warmly delightful time at the holidays or throughout the year is by staging a cookie swap.

At a cookie swap, you and each of your guests bake one kind of cookie in quantities sufficient to share. Each guest leaves the party with a dozen of each cookie, ready to give away, share right away or enjoy later.

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Here's a sweet deal. Cookies are inexpensive to make at home and are a delicious way to show someone you care.