Living Lightly at Christmas
Do you want a stress and debt free Christmas? Join Conor and Ella as they help the O’Connors in Longford and the McArdles in Stepaside to cut their Christmas spending in half.
Top Tips:
- - Decide on a budget and stick to it, for a copy of the Christmas Spending Diary email livinglightly@gmtv.ie
- - Be organised and start early
- - Shop with a list
- - Kris Kindle and set a limit
- - €100 Christmas Dinner Shopping list and recipes email livinglightly@gmtv.ie
Free Family Entertainment:
- - Meet Rudolph’s cousins at the Phoenix Park Call 01 6770095
- - Draw your own Winter Wonderland at Hugh Lane Gallery and National Gallery
- - Check your local library for Christmas Storytelling
- - Visit a Christmas Tree Farm, have a great walk in the woods and pick your own Christmas Tree www.kildarechristmastrees.com (Kellehers, Naas) www.christmastreesireland.com
- For more ideas www.thingstodo.ie
Alternative present ideas:
- - Gift of helping others: www.oxfam.ie
- - A book of vouchers to be redeemed for a cup of tea, use of the remote…
- - organic vegetable hamper with all the veg for Christmas only €15 at: www.castlefarmfarmshop.ie
- - Personalised Calendar www.photobox.ie
- - Puppet Theatre www.davemcardle.com or Laura 085-1663248
Homemade Radio Programme in 10 easy steps:
1. Download free editing software from the internet, such as AUDACITY (for Macs or PC)
3. Decide on a few poems, songs, stories or messages you want to have on your tape.
4. Download songs from iTunes - usually 99 cent each
5. If you have a microphone, use it. Otherwise record straight into computer's internal mic.
6. Write a brief script to keep you on the right track!
7. Record your tape!
8. Editing in Audacity is not hard - if you can cut, paste and delete in Word or Pages, you can do simple editing.
9. Burn your programme out onto a CD.
10. For an extra special touch, buy CD paper and print out your own CD labels
