Sometimes you want to give someone a small gift to express your appreciation or you simply don’t have extra money to buy an expensive gift but you want to give something. Here’s a few ideas for gifts that don’t cost a lot but will be appreciated by whoever the recipient is. 
1. Make muffins. Line a tin (that you picked up in a yard sale, of course) with colorful tissue paper and fill it with yummy muffins.
2. Make a personalized homemade gift basket. Pick up baskets at yard sales and flea markets. Line them with pretty cloth napkins.
3. Offer a service. Print out a coupon for three car washes, a months worth of babysitting, landscaping or a foot massage.
4. Pack a picnic. Buy a red checkered table cloth (or any color) at a flea market, or use your own. Pack a large covered basket, or cooler with pasta salads, fruit, cheese, bread and crackers, leftovers and drinks.
5. Defrost one of your Once A Month Cooking Meals. Add two colorful cloth napkins and a loaf of bread.
6. If you bake, create your own cookie of the month. Print out a list in advance and make a half dozen cookies each month.
7. Frame a paint by number that you or your child created.
Also, be sure to check out these posts:
Free Printable Coupons
Free Money Saving Tips
Coupons & Freebies
by Sharaaz, on August 16 2008 @ 7:00 pm
Some truely heart touching tips. Thanks for sharing them. Mmm they might come in handy some day to some of us. Yup !
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by Mary@SimplyForties, on November 4 2008 @ 10:22 pm
I love the idea of filling that yard sale basket with a defrosted meal, adding the cloth napkins & loaf of artisan bread, and giving it to someone who would appreciate a home-cooked meal. I’m going to think on that one a bit. I take baked goods with me when I go volunteer at the library on Thursday afternoons. The patrons seem to appreciate it!
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