Wednesday, December 19, 2012
During the last 12 days before Christmas, Largo Patch will share gift ideas from local businesses each day to help wrap up your holiday shopping.
Enjoy chocolate with liqueur? Prefer stollen, the German sweet bread, filled with fruit and nuts? Stepping into the Largo's German Deli and Wursthaus around the holidays is similar to going to one of the Christmas Markets in Germany, where stores and stands are stuffed with baked goods and spicy holiday wines. For Christmas, the East Bay Drive deli carries a wide selection of specialty chocolates with liqueur, fresh-baked Christmas cookies, calendars filled with chocolates, holiday wines and gingerbread. Throughout the year the shop carries sausages, bread, noodles, mustard and other imported products . Want to read about other local places to shop? Sign up for the Largo Patch email newsletter to get our headlines delivered to your inbox …
Monday, December 17, 2012
During the last 12 days before Christmas, Largo Patch will share gift ideas from local businesses each day to help wrap up your holiday shopping.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Tips for getting the presents they want without having to hoof it from Largo to the North Pole.
Santa’s awesome, but he doesn’t always deliver the hottest toys of the season on demand to Largo, no matter how nicely we ask. If the kids – or wannabe kids – in your life happen to have their hearts set on presents that are hard to come by, it can be torturous running from store to store only to find what they really want just isn’t available. Whether your little girl has her sights on the latest Lalaloopsy, your son wants a Hot Wheels R/C Terrain Twister or that “big baby” in your life is yearning for a copy of Halo 4, here are some ideas on how to track down what’s in demand without putting miles and miles on your vehicle in the process: Tips for Shopping in Town If you hate ordering online and love the gratification of being able to …
Are you gearing up to let your fingers do the walking on Cyber Monday?
Largo residents who didn’t want to brave the crowds on Black Friday or Small Business Saturday still have one more big chance to save courtesy of Cyber Monday. Similar to the two other major shopping events, Cyber Monday differs in that consumers don’t have to leave the comfort of their own homes (or offices) to take advantage of some pretty big pre-holiday deals. All the bargains laid out for Cyber Monday are for online shoppers only. So how can you find the best deals online this Cyber Monday? While most major retailers that have an online presence aren’t tipping their hats on their online deals just yet, many have splash pages set up that they're inviting shoppers to bookmark in advance of the Nov. 26 shopping holiday. Here are just a …
Friday, November 16, 2012
How much is too much to spend on children and teens? We want to hear your thoughts Tampa Bay!
As the holiday shopping season goes into full swing, some people are maxing out their credit cards to pay for presents and others are setting budgets and sticking with them. Scour just about any Facebook stream or stop in a local coffee shop and chances are you’ll hear parents debating the merits of setting spending limits. Or, you'll hear them lamenting about just how much they've already spent. The ideas for a perfect limit do seem to vary rather greatly. Some parents say $100 per child is more than enough. Others tend to lean toward much more generous figures. After all, there’s nothing like seeing a child’s eyes light up as they unwrap gift after gift. And that’s what we want to hear from you about Tampa Bay! Do you set spending limits…
Dorine Houston
10:49 am on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Christmas is not about gimme-greed; it is about rejoicing in the birth of our Savior. $100.00 plus something special to wear to midnight mass is plenty for kids except in the case of a special present such as a bicycle. It is good to have kids participate in giving to very poor children, orphans in Haiti, and poor senior citizens who live alone. Never have them give anything used! New presents … more ›