Some ideas: Check out these recipes for chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, molasses cookies, and gingersnaps. Just make sure to keep food allergies in mind!
Not only is it visually appealing, it’s also very tasty. Just take three or four of the cookies that you make, wrap them in cellophane, and tie a little ribbon around the top to keep it closed. Homemade CookiesĪ batch of homemade cookies can turn into a number of really nice gifts. Some ideas: Seed Savers offers an infinite variety of heirloom seeds and sells them in a number of stores… High Mowing Organic Seeds offer a wide variety of interesting seeds for almost any type of herb, vegetable, or flower you might want to grow. Rather than just picking four or five packets from the usual places, spend a bit of time hunting around for an interesting variety that matches the kinds of things they typically grow. Know someone that likes to garden? A few packs of seeds make for a great Christmas or late winter or early spring gift. Some ideas: JLab earbuds come in a variety of colors and are easily found for $5 or less… Skullcandy earbuds come in a huge variety of colors and actually have pretty good sound discontinued models and sales often find these at $5 or below. I’ve found that even if you don’t pick the right color, they can find a friend to trade the earbuds with for a color that they do like. A set of brightly colored earbuds are a great, simple way to make their music listening just a little more fun. Pretty much every teenager has a phone or some other device that plays music, and those devices are almost always paired with a set of earphones or ear buds. Some ideas: A deck of quality Bicycle playing cards will set you back about $3 - include with that gift the printed rules of a game your family enjoys… Some game ideas include 500, bridge, canasta, cribbage, euchre, and pitch. Quite often, one of the rites of family initiation is simply being taught the family’s favorite card games.Ī deck of cards with a sheet showing the rules of your family’s favorite game is a great “welcome to the family” gift for someone’s fiance or serious significant other who is new to the family. I simply don’t go to a family event without someone pulling out a deck of cards and starting a game.
Some ideas: Ghirardelli makes one of the best mid-priced hot chocolate and the packets cost $1 each… Land O’ Lakes also makes an excellent mid-priced hot chocolate mix and individual packets come in around 50 cents each. My suggestion: stop by the dollar store and pick up a $1 coffee mug, then spend the other $4 on a packet or two of really good hot chocolate. Also, you’re much better off giving just a few packets of good hot chocolate than a bunch of packets of mediocre hot chocolate. It doesn’t have to be a fancy mug, of course mostly, it just serves as a way to share the hot chocolate with your gift recipient. Some ideas: Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Common Sense by Thomas Paine, Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne Coffee Mug with Hot Chocolate I’ve found books to give as gifts in many different places.
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My bookshelf has several books from this series and I’m constantly impressed with the quality that this series offers.īeyond these books, you can always look for good books on sale at bookstores or at other opportunities. The “Dover Thrift Editions” series of paperback books offers an amazing bargain: classic literature in an easy-to-read format for just a dollar or two. Got the idea? Let’s get started! A Classic Book In many cases the item would click with multiple members of our family. Either I would like it, my wife Sarah would like it, or one of our children – aging in range from eight to four – would like it.
Instead, it is much more likely to be eaten or used up in some other fashion.Įverything listed in this article is a gift that someone in my family would like. An item that can get used up won’t take up space in a person’s home and won’t be given away later. If you’re in doubt, go with a consumable item. There’s nothing wrong with choosing two or three of these items and bundling them together for a “bigger” gift for someone, too. If you want to give a bigger gift, give these in multiples.
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