Frugal gift ideas...

[Shagly]

you give your girls frugal sex toys?

LOL....

That depends on the good ones or the bad ones.

 

[laZilla]

I really like the recipe idea. I love to cook and have a massive collection that my friends and family are always asking for recipes from. Maybe have them printed up on cardstock and get a nice 3 ring binder to put them in?

 

[neci]

I really like the recipe idea. I love to cook and have a massive collection that my friends and family are always asking for recipes from. Maybe have them printed up on cardstock and get a nice 3 ring binder to put them in?

that is a gift i would cherish. if you do the three ring binder, you can add to it year after year.

i'm now thinking i may have to do something like this.

 

[laZilla]

that is a gift i would cherish. if you do the three ring binder, you can add to it year after year.

i'm now thinking i may have to do something like this.

Yeah. Also you can add your own recipes to it. I collect recipes by keeping a huge 3-ring binder full of plastic page protecters. When I want to add a recipe I print it out or tear it out of a magazine and slip it into one of the page protectors. The other nice thing about keeping recipes that way is that you can pop them out when you are using them and if food gets on them you can wipe it off before putting it back in the binder.

 

[Shagly]

you give your girls frugal sex toys?

The girls on the sorority like the idea.

 

[Shagly]

Give them charcoal in the stockings.

Carbon is going for good money in these times.

 

[redheadedtxn]

What a spectacular thread! Thanks LaZilla
I made salsa last year, jarred it and put it in baskets (from the $1 store!) and a bag of blue corn chips for the adults.
Year before, made homemade pimento cheese and did a basket with that and crackers.
This year...not sure....thinking chocolate covered pretzles and a deck of cards and a bag of popcorn.

 

[Shagly]

What a spectacular thread! Thanks LaZilla
I made salsa last year, jarred it and put it in baskets (from the $1 store!) and a bag of blue corn chips for the adults.
Year before, made homemade pimento cheese and did a basket with that and crackers.
This year...not sure....thinking chocolate covered pretzles and a deck of cards and a bag of popcorn.

It beats Longhorns.

 

[redheadedtxn]

It beats Longhorns.

Longhorns? Don't diss my gifts. Ima good cook!

 

[Shagly]

Longhorns? Don't diss my gifts. Ima good cook!

Who are you cooking now?

 

[~hellbaby~]

I'd say something handmade that a lot of effort went into.

A homemade gift IMO, shows more caring than anything, I would much rather have a homemade card than a $30 gift card you can buy at any 7-11.

 

[English Lady]

Yes, I am making some gifts this year. I'm making a small quilt for my Nanna to have over her knees as they really give her gyp when they get cold. I'm doing a bigger quilt for my daughter in pinks and blacks 'cos that's her thing right now and she loves blankets and cushions and such.

I'm going to have a go at making some hand made body scrubs and bath bombs and such too. I've found some recipes online that look pretty good and I've been saving jars and things just for this purpose. here's a link to the candy cane bath salts, there's lots more recipes on this site.

http://www.makeyourcosmetics.com/recipes/viewrec.asp?id=502&cat=salts

And my daughter is going to fabric paint on some plain tote bags and give them as pressies. I've got the bags for just 99p and I think it'll be a really lovely personalised pressie. She'll do a butterfly on the bag for her butterfly mad nanna and a cat on my sisters as she has a cat etc etc.

Oh and I'm making cushions out of some old (and barely worn, actually) t-shirts just by sewing'em up in a rough square shape and stuffing with toy stuffing.

I've gone a bit craft mad this Chirstmas!

 

[Image]

I made 15 pints of pear butter just yesterday (free from a tree). Collected several hundred acorns in the yard to decorate and attach ribbons to. I'll stuff the box with these...

15$ worth of canning jars
5$ in paint and ribbon


Shipping is the real cost (wrapping and postage) approx 6$ per gift.

21$ total for 15 gifts ~ not too bad.

 

[Chernosoth]

I heartily salute the people who make instead of buy.

 

[pussyhammer2021]

I heartily salute the people who make instead of buy.

I agree. Gifts have become so commercial and cheap. Id rather have something that somebody thought about and spent their time making for me. And if its well done, thats even better. But knowing somebody spent their most valuable commodity, time, on me means more than some cheap chinese amazon or walmart junk. 9.9 times out of 10, id just put that in the trash.