What are some good, cheap ideas for making Christmas gifts for my family this year?
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You can make chacolate chip cookie mix in a jar in pretty layers and wrap it with raffia. it's inexpensive and cute. :)\ncheck out this link: \nhttp://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cookie-Mix-in-a-Jar-I/Detail.aspx
502018
click the links below to see a list of inexpensive mother's day gifts\nhttp://www.betterbudgeting.com/articles/holidays/giftsformothersday.htm\nhttp://www.stretcher.com/stories/03/03apr28e.cfm\nhttp://www.ecewebguide.com/holiday_themes/mothersdaygift.html\nhttp://www.holidayfamilyfun.com/articles/christmas/giftideas.htm\nhttp://www.mommysavers.com/celebrations/mothers_day.htm\nhope this helps
739118
Try Martha Stewart.com, she has some great craft ideas. She makes a message board that looks cute, and not to difficult to do.\n I make jewelry. It is less expensive than buying costume jewelry, and you get to match your jewelry to your clothes better. \nMakes great gifts. There are also bead projects, like key rings, and sewing projects for beads.\nGo to your local craft store, there is something for everyone: glass etching, handmade ornaments, scrapbooking, stationary making, decopage, flower arranging, wreath making.purse making, and on and on. Go online to Hobby Lobby or Michaels for ideas.
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I would make a nice gift basket that the whole family can enjoy - you could do coffees and teas for the adults, hot cocoas for the little ones, and assorted cookies & chocolates along with nice mugs for each of them. Most of this can be found pretty inexpensively if you look. \n\nOr, you can also do a pasta bowl, loaded with pastas, a couple different gourmet sauces, a pasta server, grated cheese, etc. \n\nOR, you can do a snack basket - popcorn, munchies, soda & beer, and if you wanted to, throw in a game or some movie rentals. \n\nSince you don't know them, it's tough. But you've been with your beau for a while and if he's bringing you to meet them, you're probably going to be around for a while, so buying that first gift without knowing them is hard. Good luck!
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Dollar store was a good point they have mugs with candy in them.. 1 dollar each for every memeber spending about under 20 bucks?\nI am sure your family would understand times are tough...\nAnother idea if your good at baking...make some brownies or cookies. Buy some christmas decorated tins again at the dollar store and some of that party tissue paper to make it look a little fancy when they open it. \nCan't go wrong with sweets for the sweet tooth.
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How about you all draw names and bake/cook something  that starts with the first letter of their first name.\n\nOR\n\nYou can each draw names and write something - a memory, a happy time that you can think of about that person.  That would surely be a heart warming Christmas!
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Here are a few ideas:\n\n-Make ornaments.  Find a playdough recipe that you can bake in the oven.  The kids can use cookie cutters to make different Christmas shapes, don't forget to use a straw to poke a hole for string before you bake!\n-Frosty pictures.  Using crayons, color a winter scene picture on black or blue construction paper.  Boil about a cup of water and add about a cup of Epson Salts, disolve.  Have the kids brush the solution overtop of their pictures.  When it dries it should look frosty.  OR you can also dilute white paint with water in a spray bottle, invite the kids to spray "snow" onto their pictures.\n-Photocopy a picture of Santa's face...have the kids color the pic and glue cotton balls on his beard.\n-Trace kids hands on red and green paper.  Make a wreath with the hand cutouts.\n\nAlso check out this site for some great ideas...\nhttp://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/santa.html
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Make some hot dogs in buns with polymer clay.  Also make some miniature popcorn holders...the red striped things.\n\nHow about laminating some baseball cards and putting those on the tree.
856533
There r alot of web sites that have ideas for home made gift. just type in that and pick from there.
969477
If you sew (you could learn to hand sew quickly) you could make little handbags. It's also fun to make your own hand/body lotion, bath salts, bath bombs(fizzy). You could also make candy kits for them to enjoy.  Go to the library and check out the books for cheap and easy gifts in minutes.  Have fun.
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Walk dogs. Help people Christmas shop.  Wrap gifts. Help put up Christmas lights.  There are a lot of opportunities to make extra money around the holidays.\n\nHere is a suggestion: can you bake? Can you make fudge? For people who are not close relatives, giving baked goods like cookies and pies are always welcome.  if you can make fudge, offer to sell your fudge on EBay, with just a little investment in decorative boxes or tins to put them in.\n\nI make good money myself, but I still bake pecan pies around Christmas for a lot of friends, some of whom are wealthy but appreciate my delicious pecan pie every year.\n\nIf you have some sort of specialty such as baking or whatever, use that skill to your advantage! \n\nYou seem to have a good heart; God bless you and have a Merry Christmas!
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Go to "Dollar Central" and pick up a nice (cheap) box of Christmas cards. Go to your local lottery retailer and buy scratch & win tickets for each of your friends and perhaps blow a whole $ 10.00 on the crummy in-laws.\n\nWrite some nice warm & fuzzy stuff in the cards and wish them luck with the tickets & the new year!\n\nMerry Christmas! And may 2007 be brighter!
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One or two years ago I used buttons, glue, puff paint, etc. and decorated Christmas stockings for each member of my family. You can decorate it with a picture of something that they love, like music notes or a soccer ball. That way it's personalized and it works for any age or gender. Hope this helps
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Buy clearance items, go to dollar stores, by things that are on sale. Best idea of all is to make things, not only are they cheap to make, they come from the heart. Now a days people put way to much emphasis on gifts, when they need to look at the real meaning of Christmas. Merry Christmas and good luck to you.
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If you have a great mixture of very young and very old, holiday bingo is good and easy. Just make the bingo cards with pictures of things instead of numbbers: a stocking, a doll, a candy cane, Santa, an ornament, a mistletoe, and so on. Then have those things in little slips of paper that you'll pull from to call out, "Under the B, a present! Or you could change the BINGO to SANTA, if you want. Putting together Christmas or wintery puzzles is a good activity if you can set up a few card tables. That way people can congregate for a little while or for the whole puzzle and different people get to visit as they move around to different puzzles. If you have some old family Christmas videos of when some of the older ones were very young, this is always a lot of fun for everyone to watch, too. You can just have them playing in the background rather than commanding everyone to sit and watch for a period of time.
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4th grade, what a wonderful year. Here are some ideas they'll love.\n\n1. Make reindeer mix with oatmeal and sprkinles. Tell them  to sprikle it on their lawn on Christmas Eve.\n2. Have them spread icing and add sprikles to a sugar cookie.\n3. Make presents for loved ones such as wrapping hot cocoa mix packages.\n\nHope this helps!
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I have a couple of ideas for you\n1 You could make coupons out of them, IE coupon good for a free babysitting, etc.\n2 you could go to a craft store and buy designer box ( some shaped like hearts, stars, etc, ) and decoupage them to the box, makes a great secret box for letters, cards, treasures from friends. etc.