Clever Presents
Everybody wants to give gifts and do gift exchanges--which can be fine, but doesn't it seem that so often, we get commercial and disappointed and stressed about finding "good" presents? And some of us are too broke to view gift-giving as anything but a burden. But what if it wasn't? Are there cheap, interesting, useful or fun things you can give?Here are 60 Wonderful Inexpensive Gifts.
- A note of encouragement
- A quarter to light a candle for a special intention
- Beautiful pictures cut from magazines
- Stickers
- Shells, with guide
- Rocks, with guide
- Beautiful leaves
- Nuts
- Buckeyes
- Pen
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Markers
- Glue-stick
- High-lighter
- Spool of thread
- Sewing needle
- Barrette
- Hair-Tie
- A dried rose
- Pressed flowers
- Holy Card
- Book-mark
- Really good cookie recipe or other family recipes
- Piece of wrapped candy
- Maze you made yourself
- Connect-the-dots you made yourself
- Crossword puzzle
- Word-search
- A funny comic from the “funnies”
- A small bag of bird-seed
- On-sale cake mix
- Something nice from your parents’ garden (with your parent’s permission, of course
- Walking stick from a hike.
- A stamp for a letter.
- Sacred Heart Badge
- Holy Medal
- A good poem
- A good story
- Beads
- Sheet music to a beautiful song
- Can of pop
- Ribbon
- Rosary
- Silly putty
- A drawing you did
- An orange full of cloves
- Cinnamon stick
- A tea-light candle
- Yo-yo
- Marbles
- Rubber ball
- Tiny Squirt gun
- Good quote about holiness, friendship, beauty, etc. from something you read that they can write down in their spiritual diary.
- Interesting piece of fabric
- Tape measure
- Whistle
- Origami creatures
- A sling
- A Dover book