Inexpensive Holiday Gifts

For the holidays, I always want to give a little gift to the people I work with.  However, this is about a dozen people, so I have to be frugal and keep the gift cost between $1 – 2.   I give everyone the same gift to keep it simple.  This year, I am making little sets of jams and lottery tickets.

On the tag, I wrote, “have a sweet holiday and a prosperous new year”.  So the jam represents the “sweet” and the lottery ticket represents the “prosperous”.  Half of the gift is the packaging, so I put each gift in a cellophane bag with some rafia stuffing, added a lable, and then tied it together with a bow.  Total cost = about $2.25.

Here are a few other really simple, inexpensive gift ideas:

• Chocolate Mint Candies – with message :You were “mint” to have a Merry Christmas
• Cookies or brownies- wrap a few in a cute gift bag and attach the recipe
• Hot chocolate , coffee or tea packets
• Lip balms or hand lotion
• Gloves or jewelry
• Cookie cutters, with a cookie cutter attached
• S’mores kits – chocolate, marshmellos & graham crackers
• Almost anything from the Target dollar bins

What else can you think of?