Sponsored Post: Share how you budget for holiday gifts for a chance to win a $250 American Express Gift Card

Earlier this week I shared with you how I am shopping for five family members on a budget of  $250.00 plus 40,000 American Express membership rewards points. It’s a great exercise for me to have a budget to stay within.  I have $50.00 for each person on my list plus the Membership Rewards points.  I’m still shopping and perusing the rewards website for deals.  The website has a dizzying array of gifts that you can buy with points. There’s everything from designer goods, to electronics to even Facebook Ads.  I think the gift of Facebook Ads is a great way to help someone with their own business, especially a small business,  advertise it to Facebook members.  It’s pretty amazing all the things the points are good for (read my earlier post on smart shopping tips with American Express Membership Rewards.)  Look for a post soon sharing my shopping finds as I work within the budget and the points American Express gave me to achieve fabulous Christmas finds.  Now, as I promised, I am going to share the holiday challenge with all of you.. plus wait for it…a  prize of a $250.00 American Express gift card. With an American Express Gift Card, you get the full amount on the card, there are no fees or service charges, so all $250.00 will really be at the winner’s disposal.  This is a super prize for one lucky reader!  American Express Gift Cards are accepted at millions of shops and restaurants around the world, so the options for spending & fabulous finds are almost infinite.

How to Enter
You must leave a comment here on the blog to enter sharing your personal tips on how you shop for Christmas gift and stay within a budget.  Show us all what a smart shopper you are by dazzling us with your shopping genius! 🙂  After you have left a comment, you can receive additional entries by sharing the contest on Twitter, following @Recessionista on Twitter and liking us on Facebook. You can  Tweet daily to receive additional contest entries, just Tweet from the widget here in this blog post so we can count all your Tweets. That makes it easy for you to get one extra entry for each Tweet.

This giveaway will run until midnight EST on Sunday, Dec. 18th, so if want some holiday shopping $$ enter quick!  This giveaway is being conducted using the Rafflecopter widget.  Hit the Read More Link to enter via the widget.  If you don’t see the widget here, just leave a blog post comment with your email address so you can be entered. Just hit the comment button (look for the Post a Comment link under this post.) This giveaway is open to only US residents so please take that into account when you submit your entry.  Stay tuned, more giveaways to come.

The winner of this giveaway was Joyce, for her tips on shopping for the holidays all year round!

The giveaway is now over.