g2theq
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Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 26 | |
| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/4/2006 1:35:48 AM | I always like to give a book from chapters sale section. relatively cheap and you can usually match something to someone.  | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/4/2006 9:44:49 AM | I came across an amazingly easy recipe for biscotti so im making and giving that away to all my coffee loving friends | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/4/2006 9:56:43 AM | Dollar stores ALWAYS have great things :)
Candles, their favourite candies,
heck I'd love lotto tickets.
Or a basket of their favourite junk!
that reminds me.. for one kids' bday .. i went there and filled a huge decorative bag full of art projects and wrote on the card "The rainy day bag". The mom thought it was a brilliant idea!
the same can be done for xmas for children??? | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/4/2006 2:20:44 PM | | Why not make a collage of photos on already stretched canvas? Then you can write little things in and around the photos. Home made stuff is the best! | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/4/2006 4:17:45 PM | | Inukshuk, you know those rock formations we see while driving in remote locations. Go down to your local stream and collect whatever size/shape you can handle. Go to your building suppy place or craft store and buy some adhesive/glue and clear schilac. Clean up the rocks and make sure they are dry. Now spend some time and get creative, don't glue until you have put together your masterpiece. Once glued, spray with the schilac to make it shiny, Viola!! | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/5/2006 3:37:28 PM | | A can of hot chocolate, or a timmy's coffee voucher....those tiny lites you attach to your key chain...about $4 and very handy, I use mine all the time. | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/5/2006 7:36:51 PM | Due to "circumstances", I only have 3 gifts to buy this year...2 if I combine Mom's and her commonlaw husband's.
Every year, everybody gets DVD's. I'm even lazier this year...they're getting gift certificates. If I'm REALLY not into it, they'll be gift certificates from my store.
Apparently my mom thinks that one mandarin orange and a toothbrush are thoughtful gifts. But after brushing my teeth and eating the orange immediately following the brushing, I beg to differ. | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/5/2006 7:38:22 PM | I'm making most of mine, with the exception of a couple of the children. So I'm an artsy type  makes my life easier. | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/5/2006 7:41:14 PM | ^^ Cnote
If you finally get that job at Love N Lace a gift cert will work fine for me
My mom thought the tinfoil chew toys were a great addition to the family stocking stuffers too... | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/5/2006 7:49:43 PM | You don't get a cheap and thoughtful gift, you get me. I mean...a visit from me. And maybe 20 bucks worth of pineapple.
Maybe I'll just piss off everyone by getting them fruitcake.
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/5/2006 8:25:00 PM | You don't get a cheap and thoughtful gift, you get me. I mean...a visit from me. And maybe 20 bucks worth of pineapple.
This is sounding better and better...you might want to send the pineapple a few days before you get here....
Fruitcakes are great...friends...you know...like Gon, Hobbes, Trophy...etc...
-edit- New gift for you though...a "BC Note"... | |
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*Q*
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Joined: 11/5/2006
Msg: 43 | |
| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/6/2006 11:51:50 AM | | Diaso in Aberdeen Mall in Richmond. Everything is $2.00 and it is better than the dollar stores for quality. You can get pretty much everything there. Japanese Dishes, chopsticks with their own carrying boxes, sake kits, kitchen ware, kids toys, bath and beauty stuff, kitchen stuff, tonnes of organizing bins. You name it, it is there. | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/12/2006 9:24:42 PM | Go to a rocky beach....look for rocks that are in the shape of a heart. I have a huge Mexican bowl full of them that I've collected over the years. I give them to people who have earned a piece of my heart....or when I am feeling all lovey.
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/16/2006 10:39:22 PM | I used to make alot of my christmas gifts but don't seem to have the energy or time anymore!
My mom came up with the idea of a garage sale christmas (being we are all pack rats in my family). And just doing it that way.
I know this wouldn't work for you! But maybe someone else...
P.S
No we didn't end up doing this! But it did make us think to quit buying each other more stuff that is just gonna sit and collect dust! LOL | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 12/16/2006 10:53:52 PM | Turkey baster: lonely over looked tool for when you’re by yourself, but hours of fun-filled fulfillment for when the twins arrive.
Unselfish multitasker…only thinking of others. | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 10/10/2009 10:41:18 PM | I have a 4-year-old grandson who has been wild about steam engines (or any trains now) since he was two. Between his parents and me, he gets to go to the B.C. Forest Museum (Discovery Centre) and ride the trains at least once a week. Usually, I take the digital camera with me and get photos of him and his friends (especially him with the engineers, the conductors, etc.).
Last Christmas, one of his gifts from me was a photo album of the 'best of' the year's pictures from the Discovery Centre, to hold him through until it opened again in the Spring.
This year, I'll add to it, and every year until he outgrows the album or loses interest in trains. My guess is, he never will (grin). Fourteen years or so from now, he'll probably be an engineer, as that is his dream and has been for half his young life. | |
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Moanie
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Joined: 4/16/2008
Msg: 49 | |
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| Cheap and thoughtful Christmas gifts
Posted: 10/11/2009 4:54:54 PM | | apparently the cool type of people just re-gift the thoughtful gifts they have received from family and friends to pass on...just hide out til boxing day :) | |
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