#442 - Thoughtful Gift-Giving When Budgets Are Tight

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Arts, Education

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We are entering the season where we’re beginning to think about holiday gifts, especially on a limited budget which many of us are right now. I’m going to share my five rules of thoughtful gift-giving, six budget-friendly categories of potential gift ideas, and seven themes you can use as a family or friend group that put everybody on the same gift-giving playing field. Helpful Companion Links Order my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee Projects Playbook Sign up for our every-other-week podcast recap email called Latest Lazy Listens. Sign up for my once-a-month newsletter, The Latest Lazy Letter or if you’re just looking for book reviews, sign up to receive The Book List Grab a copy of my book The Lazy Genius Kitchen or The Lazy Genius Way! (Affiliate links) Download a transcript of this episode. Want to share your Lazy Genius of the Week idea with us? Use this form to tell us about it. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there. You're listening to The Lazy Genius podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi. This podcast is not about
0:06.6	hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done. Hustling to be the best or to make
0:13.5	the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things differently.
0:22.8	On this podcast, we value contentment,
0:28.8	compassion, and living in our season. We favor small steps over big systems. Here we are lazy geniuses, being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.
0:34.1	And I'm so glad that you are here. Today is episode 442, thoughtful gift giving
0:39.8	when budgets are tight. We are entering the season where we'd like to start thinking about
0:45.6	holiday gifts, and I'd like to give you some ways to think about it, especially on a limited
0:50.8	budget, which many of us are on right now, so that your thinking can evolve
0:55.6	into action before you get desperate and spend more than you have on gifts that you wouldn't
1:03.2	have even chosen if you had a little more time. So I'm going to share my five rules of thoughtful
1:08.6	gift giving. I will share six budget-friendly categories of potential
1:13.7	gift ideas that act as lenses to help you come up with fun and thoughtful gifts for your people.
1:21.3	And then I'm going to share seven themes that you can use as a family or a friend group that put
1:26.6	everybody on the same gift-giving playing field,
1:29.7	which can be helpful when you're financially not on the same playing field. I did not intend for the
1:35.6	numbers to be 5, 6, 7, but it's always fun when it works out that way. After that, we're going to have
1:40.6	a little extra something where I share a fun, new to me way to plan a trip to a new place.
1:46.5	We're going to celebrate the lazy genius of the week with one of the sweetest, easiest ways to care for a friend.
1:51.9	And we will close with a mini pep talk for when you're struggling with the monotony of life.
1:56.9	Before we get into that, here is your friendly reminder that this week is when our next pair of
2:03.3	newsletters will get sent out. So on Wednesday, folks are going to get the latest lazy letter,
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