Top Money Saving Tips In This Christmas Season

Christmas is a wonderful occasion that is celebrated by people all over the world. It involves huge expense and there are many ways to save money on this celebration. Saving money doesn’t mean that you need to hold your pockets. You can create a fabulous day and make everyone special with following a budget plan. Check out the following simple money saving tips to help you to celebrate Christmas in your way:

Look for Stress Free Christmas Cooking

Christmas is full of eating cakes, cookies, desserts and exotic dishes. It is better to create the menu and plan ahead the occasion. Make sure that you don’t buy unnecessary stuffs and waste your money. Buy only the materials you need for preparing the food recipes.

Go Against Tradition

If you find something that your family doesn’t like in Christmas tradition, then just ignore it. Celebrate the great occasion in your own style. Invite your friends, neighbours and family to join in the Christmas evening.

Make Christmas Grocery Shopping Alone

It is always a great idea to buy grocery shopping alone especially in the Christmas season. This is because your kids or partner may trouble you to go home early. Rush shopping will let you lose your patience and forget important products. Make your purchase alone and surprise your family at the day of Christmas.

Don’t Overstock With Basics

Remember to buy necessary products only from the supermarkets. Don’t overstock your kitchen with extra products like milk, butter and bread. Usually, the shops reopen quickly after the Christmas evening. You need not get panic and buy earlier.

Make Use of Leftovers

People who have leftovers can use for their lunch and supper in the holiday season. If you have excess Turkey, then make in the preparation of soup. You can fry the leftover vegetables in the seasonal Bubble and Squeak. Do some research over the web and find the best creative foods using the leftovers.

Christmas is a great time for celebration and you should definitely follow the above tips. Make your occasion in the best way!

Dussehra in India

India is renowned for its rich culture and traditions. Though there are plenty of activities to do around, religious celebrations in India frame an imperative role. Indian festivals describe the religious and social significances of various religions and languages. Dussehra is a famous Indian festival that is celebrated from September to October by Hindus. It is celebrated to remark the success of good over immoral forces.  

Dusshera festival is also termed as Vijaya Dashami, Dasara or Durga Pooja. In India, it is grandly celebrated in Mysore, Assam, Jharkhand, Manipur, Tripura, West Bengal and Bihar. As the greater part of Bengali Hindus resides in Tripura and West Bengal, they celebrate Durga Pooja as the biggest event of the year. The conclusion of Navarathri festival is fêted as Dussehra. 

How Dussehra is Celebrated?

People throng to city’s prominent temples and offer special prayer meetings. Most of the Hindu belief people offer food to god from home or at temples. In some areas, people celebrate for up to ten days by organizing special events everyday. In Mysore, Dussehra festival is celebrated on a grand manner, which tourists from all over the world throng to watch the elaborate affair.

Mysore Palace

The Mysore Palace will be enlightened using one lakh light bulb on all ten days in the evenings (7 to 10 PM). It is said that they spend about Rs. 1 Crore every year for maintenance of the bulbs alone. In addition, various dances and cultural festivals, food festivals, wrestling, sports and film festival highlighting the event are performed in the Mysore palace.  Famous artists and musicians from all over the country perform and showcase their talents on this grand stage.

The major highlight of this event is, Holy Goddess Chamundeshwari will be adorned on a golden mantapa and be placed on top of a decorated elephant. Devotees worship the idol before it is placed in its possession. Mysore’s royal family offers special prayers on this auspicious occasion. The entire city witnesses colorful lights, cultural programmes, traditional music and enchanting celebration all over. 

Most of the Hindus have a belief that it is fortunate to start a new project or venture on this occasion. All cooking pans, vehicles, work related and household tools are blessed with special prayers. In the evening, the statues of Ravana are burnt on beacons.  The devotees in Bengal prepare alur dom (deep fried spicy potato snacks) and luchi (deep fried bread) as special foods on this event.

If you are planning on a trip to India, make sure you do not miss to watch this striking celebration. 

Fete De Pondicherry- Popular Festival in Pondicherry

Pondicherry is a destination that holds a mishmash of rich culture and heritage over the past years. This tiny land not only bears rich culture but also stands for its ancient customs. It is believed that Pondicherry was under the French dominance for 300 years.

During that period, the people in the city followed various traditions, art and religious practices. These kinds of activities slowly started to attract a large number of tourists towards the ethnic city.

After achieving freedom from French dominance, the Pondicherry Government hosted the “Fete De Pondicherry” with the main aim to celebrate the liberation of the state from foreign dominance. This grand festival takes place for three days after the Indian Independence Day.

Tourists from different parts of the world gather in the destination to watch the enthusiastic music and dance performances hosted by the Government. Added to this, there will be many exciting performances, competitions and exhibition programs held in the city.

Fete De Pondicherry is a cultural program widely celebrated by all the people in the town. The Park Monument is beautifully decorated with splendid lights and glitters. Basically, this festival is annually celebrated on the occasion of liberation day and Independence Day of Pondicherry and India.

You can see a huge number of visitors during this peak season i.e 15^th August to 17^th August. Pondicherry is a great tourist destination that is well equipped with star hotels and resorts. Just plan a trip and join in the celebration of this popular festival in Pondicherry!!