10 Ways Secure Cloud Storage Makes Holiday Seasons Merry
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- Store pictures of potential gifts in the cloud. Sure, you could create a Secret Board on Pinterest to store gift ideas, but if you want to get others’ opinions about the gifts you’re thinking of buying, it’s difficult to control who’s seeing the content – either everyone who’s added to your Secret Board has access to the Pins, or you could keep the board to only yourself. With cloud storage, you’re able to upload a photo file and share it with whomever you want – meaning you can share one potential gift idea as a password-protected file with many, and you’re able to do this with each gift to ensure no surprise is spoiled. Pinterest also limits users to three Secret Boards – with cloud storage, there is no limit to how many files you can share with people, making the possibilities endless.
- Keep track of your budget on the cloud. One of the biggest stressors of the holidays is money. Make sure you stay within your means by keeping your budget on the cloud. With real-time editing capabilities, you’re able to add on expenses as they come and access your budget from any device – so, as soon as you buy that Barbie for your niece, you can mark down the expenditure right in the store and get back to shopping, guilt-free.
- Store holiday recipes. Do you really love that fruitcake your aunt always makes but can never remember the recipe? Snap a pic of the recipe, and store it in your cloud in a holiday recipe folder. That way, you’ll be able to amass the secrets of all your favorite holiday dishes and pull them up the next time your fellow partygoer asks you how many cups of sugar is in that batch of cookies.
- Plan parties with groups. Want to make your holiday fiesta the best in town? Let your guests in on the holiday fun by planning the shindig together in the cloud. Use the cloud to upload potential decorations and party themes, and get a group chat discussion going to see what people’s thoughts are. By using the cloud, you can alleviate your burden of party planning and let your friends help.
- Show off pictures and videos. Have loved ones who can’t celebrate the holidays with you in person? Make them feel like they’re still a part of your brood by uploading media to the cloud and sharing it. The cloud enables you to share with only who you want, meaning your entire Facebook network doesn’t need to see your intimate family pics.
- Store maps for holiday light stops. Have you ever wanted to go check out the holiday lights on that one epic house you found randomly while driving in a new neighborhood last year, but now you can’t remember where it is? Prevent this from happening next time by keeping track of holiday light stops as you go. This way, you can also share them with your friends who are looking for a good time, too. Create a group where people can save the best places in town, and you have a never-ending supply of fun places to visit during the holidays.
- Discuss within groups where to spend the holidays. Do you have family all over the place, but every member wants everyone else to visit them? Use cloud storage groups as a way to decide whose town reigns supreme. Candidates can upload photos of their best holiday tourist attractions to gain some visual clout, and you’ll always be able to keep record of where everyone gathers each year to ensure fairness in the future.
- Store gifts given throughout years. If you’ve ever accidentally given someone the same gift twice, we’re sorry you’ve made this holiday faux pas. Make sure it doesn’t happen again by keeping track of your gifting habits – you can even make notes on gifts with how the receivers reacted to make more optimized gift choices in the future and plan for new budgets.
- Keep track of charitable donation receipts for taxes season. The holidays are a time for giving to others, which can also benefit your tax return in the new year. Make sure you’re monitoring those donations by saving them in your cloud storage account for easy access come taxes time. You’ll also be able to see what organizations you’ve been donating the most to, which might be a great prompt to make sure your donations have been well-used and reevaluate the causes you support. And for physical donations, such as piles of clothes, you can snap pics first as backup for auditors.
- Display holiday game rules. Holiday games can get heated, especially when there are holiday cocktails involved. And some are downright complicated. Don’t let a family fight happen because of confusion over game rules. Upload them to a group cloud storage account so everyone can learn them before you get together, and you’ll save more time for catching up, rather than disagreeing about regulations.
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