Fun way to give $ as a gift?

[Minnie]

I'm looking for a fun way to give cash as a gift on Xmas.

I don't want to do a box in a box, or just a check, or gift card.

I'm looking for something unique

This is for one adult male.

Thanks!

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

Put it in a picture frame?


Or... roll a bunch of bills up tight, tie with a ribbon, and put in a cookie jar...

I would really like money.... in the form of a KitchenAid mixer

 

[IllumFan]

Is it for more than one person? My mother in-law has the "book" for the grandkids.

Each grandchild receives a number and a large book (such as phone book) has money inserted between many of the pages. There is the occasional $20 bill and sometimes coins but usually $1 and $5. She turns the pages and counts. If there is money, the child who has the number receives it.

For example, Child #1 gets $ on page 1, child #2 on page 2, child #9 on page 9 and then repeats with child#1 getting the money on page #10.

Each child usually receives between $20 and $30.

 

[Tinkermommy]

Someone made my husband a money "tree."

If this is for Christmas, you could buy a small artificial Christmas tree and fold the money so it looks like a fan or flower and paper clip to the tree.

 

[koolaidmoms]

I have heard of having a printing company cut an old white pages book the size of dollar bills (they have the large size cutters to do this easily and sometimes do it for free or a very small fee). Wrap them with bill wrappers with a real bill on top. Put it in an attache case from Good Will or one you have lying around with a note - You are worth a million dollars. The top layer will look like bills all wrapped up for a ransom.

 

[tiggerlover]

Someone made my husband a money "tree."

If this is for Christmas, you could buy a small artificial Christmas tree and fold the money so it looks like a fan or flower and paper clip to the tree.

This was going to be my suggestion, I have done this before and it was a huge hit. I got different denominations and made them like bow ties (fold the bills long-wise like a fan and then fasten the middle with a red pipe cleaner). I attached them throughout the fake tree and I also got cheao dollar store red ornaments to hang on the tree as well. I topped the tree with and inexpensive ornament and bought a square of felt to cover the base. The tree looked great and my college-aged niece got a kick out of it.

 

[Pakey]

If you can stand the sound of balloons popping, you could roll it and put it in a balloon. My grandmother did this for us one year when we were children.

 

[Sukie]

I bought two pairs of jammie pants for my 13 year old grandson for his birthday and hid a twenty and a ten, fives and some ones in the pockets. That way he got the cash plus the needed clothes. He was saving for a XBOX 360.

 

[Kimberly]

AmEx gift card? That way he can spend it on nearly anything.

 

[design_mom]

There was a great thread on the Budget Board recently with some clever ideas. Here's a link:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2600542

We're doing a money tree for my Dad (I posted a photo in the other thread). We're also using another idea from that thread and freezing cash in a block of ice. "Cold, hard cash." Get it?

 

[golfgal]

Is it for more than one person? My mother in-law has the "book" for the grandkids.

Each grandchild receives a number and a large book (such as phone book) has money inserted between many of the pages. There is the occasional $20 bill and sometimes coins but usually $1 and $5. She turns the pages and counts. If there is money, the child who has the number receives it.

For example, Child #1 gets $ on page 1, child #2 on page 2, child #9 on page 9 and then repeats with child#1 getting the money on page #10.

Each child usually receives between $20 and $30.

What a GREAT idea. I bet the kids had a BLAST doing that.

 

[index]

someone made my husband a money "tree."

if this is for christmas, you could buy a small artificial christmas tree and fold the money so it looks like a fan or flower and paper clip to the tree.

+1

 

[Minnie]

Love the $ tree idea

I have a tiny tree that we aren't using this year and could make that work

Also love the "shirt tie" idea on the thread a poster linked. Hmmm he may just need a new Xmas shirt

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

My son loves to do origami with dollar bills. He can make little boots, crosses, flowers, all sorts of things. He has given gifts like that before.

 

[Ladybugsy]

One I read recently: Freeze the bill in a big block of ice, put it in a plastic bag: COLD HARD CASH! Even better if you fold it where they don't know how much it is...lol.

Love it! LOL

 

[Mrs. Darcy]

One I read recently: Freeze the bill in a big block of ice, put it in a plastic bag: COLD HARD CASH! Even better if you fold it where they don't know how much it is...lol.

Love it! LOL

Wow that's unique!!!! I'll have to remember that one!

I gave my sis-in-law $20 in quarters that I put in a cute small change purse. She never has quarters for parking meters, so I thought this would be perfect for her. She can keep the purse in her glove compartment in her car for when she uses meters, which is often.

 

[christineann]

My son is about to start building a house, and for his birthday I gave him a closed jar with about an inch of dirt in the bottom and a roll of bills inside.

If you know what the recipient is going to use it for, maybe there is some kind of presentation that is relevant to that.

 

[Handbag Lady]

When I was a kid, Santa gave me $50 in cash.


It was in a big box and it was in singles, all over inside of the box every which way. I swear, I felt like a millionaire! There were SO MANY ones, it was crazy.

 

[ksjayhawks]

We have put money and coins in a gatorade bottle (need a bigger lid that a plastic pop bottle), filled it almost to the top with water and put it in the freezer.

Roll up bills tightly, cover with saran wrap, and place in an eclair.

Get a huge candy bar where the outer wrapper slides off, insert the money on top of the inner wrapper, put the outer wrapper back on.

 

[~disneydiva~]

One of my friends on Facebook posted a picture of her niece's money scarf she recieved as a gift.