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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere | LRQHS - 2013-11-19 1:01 PM lexyy12 - 2013-11-19 2:54 PM I've been browsing Pinterest all day! I'm not too crafty but I might try if I find something cute. My side of the family, we just buy for my nieces and nephews bit his family is different and everyone gets a gift from everyone. I really like the card with $1 in it. :-) wonder if anyone's feelings would get hurt by it??? I'm going to run that by the boyfriend :) Nah lol.....they should understand.
My family has no expectation's from me anymore. Mostly because I trained them lol....A few cans of green beans as Christmas presents and you're golden. My niece actually tries to guess what can of vegetables she has in the gift before she opens it now......It's awesome and fun and reeeaaalllyyy, really cheap :)
ps....another great idea for gifts is to look on Craigslist under the free stuff.......an old leather couch as a present would be awfully nice :)
Have you seen the vegetable cans at Wal-Mart that have 4 cans packaged together for one low price? You could get a great jump start on Christmas right now! |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | nmeastplains - 2013-11-19 3:42 PM LRQHS - 2013-11-19 1:01 PM lexyy12 - 2013-11-19 2:54 PM I've been browsing Pinterest all day! I'm not too crafty but I might try if I find something cute. My side of the family, we just buy for my nieces and nephews bit his family is different and everyone gets a gift from everyone. I really like the card with $1 in it. :-) wonder if anyone's feelings would get hurt by it??? I'm going to run that by the boyfriend :) Nah lol.....they should understand.
My family has no expectation's from me anymore. Mostly because I trained them lol....A few cans of green beans as Christmas presents and you're golden. My niece actually tries to guess what can of vegetables she has in the gift before she opens it now......It's awesome and fun and reeeaaalllyyy, really cheap :)
ps....another great idea for gifts is to look on Craigslist under the free stuff.......an old leather couch as a present would be awfully nice :)
I have not lol....Thanks for the heads up! My niece is going to think I got her something special this year lol........I put her a rooster in a paper bag with a ribbon one time.....she was scared to open it because she didn't know what was making that bag move......that was awesome. She took her little rooster home with her back to Monroe, LA......she loved that chicken lol.... |
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Location: Kansas | Oranges....everybody likes oranges 
I use to get those as stocking stuffers as a kid....  |
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Location: That part of Texas | I've bought $10 worth of lottery tickets before and packaged them in cute cards or you could make some type of candy-cane holder off of Pinterest to hold them in. My brother was lucky one year and won $60 off a scratch ticket and told me he wanted tickets again for the next year. |
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Location: lone star state | There are lots great ideas on here or suggest that everyone play a game like chinese Christmas. We play this every year at one family dinner and its a huge hit. U can also set a theme and dollar amount if you want. U only buy a gift for yourself and ur spouse so u don't break the bank if u only have 2 people in ur family.
Also as for parents and grand parents often me and my siblings each contribute a set amount and get 1 nice gift from all of us instead of each giving small gifts. We have done things like patio furniture, tickets to a favorite event with meal and hotel included. |
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Location: Deep South | Red Raider - 2013-11-19 4:34 PM
I've bought $10 worth of lottery tickets before and packaged them in cute cards or you could make some type of candy-cane holder off of Pinterest to hold them in. My brother was lucky one year and won $60 off a scratch ticket and told me he wanted tickets again for the next year.
I did this one time also! They really loved it. I think I wrote something along the lines of "So lucky to have you." or something like that. My family loves to gamble though! Lol! |
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Location: BFE, Idaho | We have ziltch this year, and are baking fancy cookies, with decorative icing, wrapping them individually with fancy plastic wrap and ribbons and that is what you get.
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 Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | These are some really good ideas. I like buying the scratch off lottery tickets....I have done this before and everyone loved it.
Also you could buy a cute pair of socks that are not expensive or dish cloths. These are things people use every day. |
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | I'm loving all these ideas!!! My mom actually was tellimg
me tonight that she was thinking of having us all draw a name and that's who we buy for this year so that will take a few names off my list! |
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| IF THE PERSON LIVES NEAR YOU, you can give them IOU's for little odd jobs. Clean their house, mow lawn next summer, fix a fence, clean the garage, almost anything. I think everybody has something like a room that needs to be repainted.
Most older people like to feed the birds so ---- a bird feeder and pole.
Homemade baked goods, especially for special diets. |
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Location: Notquitea Ranch - Cleveland Horses-Brule, Ne | If you can be together to open gifts this is fun - everyone brings one gift; draw numbers for who chooses a gift & opens it first, 2nd, etc. 2nd person can trade with 1st person if they want. You want to be the last person in the draw and you can trade with anyone! It gets pretty fun. Some years the huge basket of candy bars & other snackies is the most sought after gift! Or the silly ones, or the lottery tickets, or....... I really think we do more visiting and bonding gifting this way than stressing over buying for everyone, then everyone opening so many gifts - seems like it's hard to even see what everyone got the old way and not nearly as much visiting as we get now! |
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Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | Don't laugh....just thought of another one! Everybody needs toilet paper. |
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| I would put together a tin of baked goods, cookies, fudge, tarts, etc. Everyone loves home baked goods. |
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Location: where the wind blows | I'm not a lot of help either neither my husbands nor my family do much for gifts. We only buy for our 2 boys, their girlfriends, my mom and his parents. On Christmas Day where ever we are we do a $10 gift exchange where we draw numbers and pick a gift from the pile or steal from someone else. It's turned into a great tradition the nieces/nephews love even though they are now young adults. Maybe suggest something like that. The trick is to get goofy gifts as well as the odd nice one.
Otherwise I say go with some of the other suggestions like lotto tickets, books (or certificate for book), bottle of wine, etc.
Gifts Judy aren't big in our families. Even my husband and I rarely exchange. On occasion we will buy something for our house.
Is there some way you can start to phase out all the extended family gift giving? Honestly I'd be annoyed having to buy for ll those people. |
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| That's a tough one. I have never bought gifts for my aunts and uncles. They stopped giving me gifts when I turned 18. That's the norm in our family. The other norm in our family is buying scratch offs for family members! haha. And hey you never know they might win thousands!
But a few cheaper gift ideas, because I was in that boat last year and am again this year with immediate family.
Those wax melter from walmart are nice, around $15 - $20. The wax packs are $2. Or look through the DIY on pinterest. Because sometimes we have the time but not the money. |
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Location: Southeastern Idaho |
This made me laugh out loud! I hated it when I got to the orange too soon in my stocking! |
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