A Very Latina Christmas List

Omg, if you’re at all like me, you have no money to spend this Christmas! Good news is, there’s really nothing that I want that’s really all that expensive. We at NewsTaco thought it’d be cool to share our gift ideas just in case you’re having to gift for one of “those people” that has impossible taste. This is hopefully one in a series, let us know what you think, or where you will be getting your regalitos this year.

• Half.com is a GREAT place to get music! I just bought two CDs (I still get those!) by Los Amigos Invisibles for $10 total with shipping y todo. I’m planning on getting a Half.com gift card for my little brother — but don’t tell him!
• Speaking of music, I also just purchased a great album by Latino rocker Omar Rodríguez Lopez at his website. I’ve listened to it a few times already and it’s AWESOME.
• The battery on my iPod is starting to die, too, which sucks but Apple’s refurbished section offers products at sometimes steep discounts — te lo juro — I’ve bought stuff from there before. It’s often just stuff that’s never been used but was returned.
• If you’re trying to gift for a girl/young lad/old-person-trying-to-be-young (like me) you would be good to go to Forever 21.They have ridiculously cheap accessories that are really beautiful and fashionable.
• Also, one cool gift idea is to frame postcards of cool stuff (frames come cheap at thrift stores and dollar stores, y’all) and then give those away as gifts. I bought some cool Lotería postcards at Café Press last year and did just that, this year I’m stumped, though.
• If you still haven’t read Junot Díaz’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, “The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” that’d be a great present, too.
• And, of course, my New Year’s Resolution this year is going to be to go back to doing ab work, so I need a medicine ball, which apparently aren’t cheap, but you can get at most local sporting goods stores.

What are your Christmas gift ideas? Or Hanukkah? Or New Year’s? Or celebrate capitalism gifts?