Let's share our favorite inexpensive Christmas gifts!

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[luckey-lasvegas]

I do this for my girls' teachers every year.... DH owns a solid surface countertop company, so I have him make me up some corian cutting boards with scrap material and then I go to Trader Joe's and buy a box of their specialty mix (usually $3 or less) such as gingerbread, pumpkin bread, etc. and tie it up with Tulle and pretty ribbon

Oooh! My DH is a contractor! I'll have to hit hin up for some scraps !

 

[Fire14]

My fav gifts were the Mcd's gift books , gift cards to fav fast food/drive thru areas.

 

[robsmom]

To really be a HIT, not generically pretty good, a cheap gift probably has to be uniquely fitted to the receiver.

Dad grew up in Duluth. I found a coffee mug with the bridge that was the view out their front window. For 25 cents, he was delighted and used it every single day.

When DS was pregnant she loved to float in the pool. A friend gave me a huge inner tube from a garbage truck. I spent about 2 bucks to blacken the tube so it looked brand new. Big enough for a very pregnant lady to float through the summer.

I've been trying to piece together a travel wardrobe built around black. My sister gave me a black and white pashmina last year that is a perfect piece and cost her less than $10.

New son-in-law's fave snack is Frito scoops. He got a box of 12 cans of them from the dollar store and was delighted.

I got a three-pack of Mickey Mouse underwear--'nuff said.

The other option for a HIT is a gift that expresses your love or appreciation for the receiver.

I found a beautiful notebook with her favorite flower (purple iris) on the cover and wrote one treasured memory of my childhood on each page for my mother. Cost 2 bucks, value: priceless.

One of the richer men at our church one day commented that his wife rationed the Girl Scout cookies. Each family member got one box of their favorite flavor for their own. He'd stretch his mint cookies for two weeks. I notified other members of the congregation: order one extra box now and put it in your freezer. For Christmas he got more than twenty boxes of mint cookies, each with a note attached expressing how much the giver thinks of this man. Cost per family 2 bucks, value: priceless.

Last year I found a garage sale book "Why I love my Grandpa" for $1. I sent it around to the grandkids and asked them to choose a page and modify it as their own message. (For example: "He lets me ride in his car" was changed to "ride on his tractor.")

I want to be on your Christmas List some year. I try to be thoughtful and try to shop all year round as I see something that catches my eye or jumps out as perfect for someone. I would love to get it right even half as much as you have.

 

[bettyann29]

I read in a magazine once that a great gift is, to bake a small loaf of bananna bread and place it on a small bamboo cutting board from the $1 store and wrap it in celophane. The the recipient gets to enjoy the bread but also gains a new cutting board.

Thanks for the idea!! DH has 20 men that work under him and now that I am a stay at home mom, I think I will look for something like this at the $ store and make some pumpkin bread or something of this sort and do this for each of them as gifts..

I always struggle to figure out what to get them as men are so hard to buy for when you try to keep it to a minimum for each gift since there are so many of them..

 

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Ooh! These are great!

 

[Debbie]

We don't have Cracker Barrel near us, but I'm going to ask DSis to pick some soda up for my crew. GREAT IDEA!

Also, thanks for the memory journal idea. A stop at Dollarama is in order for me to get started.

Hoping for some more good ideas! Thank you!

 

[DisneyAndRedSox]

I noticed a lot of people mentioned Bath and Body Works. I was just on the American Express Rewards website... if you order (4) $10 gift cards with AMEX points (4,000), you get one $10 gift card free.