When Christmas rolls around the corner, stores offer BIG discounts. This year, the discounts are much welcome after the surge of rising prices. Your December wedding is timed perfectly and the last shopping chores won't use up the remaining budget. You can indulge your groomsmen with cheap groomsmen gifts that won't embarrass you or them.

After all, they're your alter egos and your valets-cum-ushers. They'll stand beside you and make sure you are fit as fiddle and looking your best from head to toe on your wedding day. Since it's a Christmas wedding, you'll have to double your effort to make your groomsmen gifts worth all their trouble.

It depends on your idea of cheap. Perhaps you are looking for gifts under $100, $50 or under $20. The discount in force will lop off a few dollars from the original amount thus your under $100 gifts for your groomsmen will be cheaper ad infinitum.

Before you cringe at the thought of dispensing cheap groomsmen gifts, take a look at this list:

-- Colibre lighters

-- high polish chrome Zippo lighters

-- authentic Swiss Army Knives

-- designer card cases

-- money clips

-- genuine leather money clips

-- 8 oz. leather flask

There is nothing cheap sounding about these discounted gifts and these look great too. Your $100 can buy four Zippo lighters, or 7 shiny money clips.

Cheap these may be but when cheap groomsmen gifts are engraved with the name of the recipient to go with the date of your wedding and your and your bride's names the gifts become special. The engraved Swiss Army knife is no longer a so-so item, it's a personalized gift meant for the recipient alone.

You can have your cheap groomsmen gifts from list earlier mentioned engraved. Each designer card case, money clips, leather money clip, flask, and lighter assumes its own identity and becomes a cherished memento from your wedding.

But if you only have a groomsman to think of, perhaps there is no excuse to be a cheapskate. Lavish him with a leather envelope portfolio. Made of genuine leather this portfolio can contain his stack of documents and sample projects completed. For $85 you can boost his efforts to bag contracts and job opportunities. Consider this one of those cheap groomsmen gifts that will go a long way.

Engraving fee is minimal but be sure to order the items three days before the big day if you are shopping online because engraving takes one more business day. Normally orders are shipped the next business day so keep tabs of the dates.

Before the wedding festivities winds up to a close, treat your friends to a hearty home-cooked meal at home. They'll love it after all the fancy food and booze. It will be nice for a change to lounge comfortably around the fire and talk of the good old days. When you present your cheap groomsmen gifts, they won't think of the word cheap but of the nice time they had with you during your wedding and the Christmas break.