Throughout the holiday season, the Dairy Store has special ice cream flavors and cheese gift boxes; the Meat Lab has gift packs for a variety of price ranges; memberships at the Bell Museum and Minnesota Landscape Arboretum also are on sale and make great gifts. For decorating help, the Forestry Club's annual Christmas tree sale begins the day after Thanksgiving.
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The Weisman is having a huge sale from December 3 through December 7 called "Be Dazzled." On December 3rd everything in the Weisman gift shop will be 20% off. For more information see:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wampr/wamnewsmain/2009/11/be_dazzled_by_20_off_every_sto.html
Tech gifts are big in my family and the UMart has a great list of discounts to online computer stores like Apple, Dell, and major cell phone companies.
A few different friends of mine have had babies recently and this "college fund" piggy bank has been a big hit (and its only $10). At first I was worried that it might just be a reminder of how expensive college tuition will be in 18 years but I found that it elicited a much more hopeful reaction:
http://www.bookstores.umn.edu/viewProduct.cgi?productID=18386
That piggy bank thing is funny. I might have to get that for my nephew:)