Inexpensive Holiday Gifts

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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.

These gift ideas are great to buy in bulk too! I can get many of these things at the dollar store or on amazon If your dollar store doesn’t have them, check online.

I also find that I can change these up for other holidays. These make great cheap birthday gifts or get well gifts too! You can put together cheap gifts for under $5 that are cute and innovative!

These are also great inexpensive gifts for coworkers. I love that I can give my coworkers a little something without breaking the bank.

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Inexpensive Holiday Gifts

Here are a few other really simple, inexpensive gift ideas that make for cheap gifts for friends and family but are still great gifts to receive.

• Homemade Almond Roca – a delicious gift idea for chocolate and almond fans!
• Chocolate Mint Candies – with a 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
• Nail polish or manicure set
• Cookie cutters, with a cookie recipe attached
• S’mores kits – chocolate, marshmallows & graham crackers wrapped in bag
• Jellies or Jams (mini-sized) with message – You are my jam!
• Notebook and pen tied together with a cute bow
• A Homemade bookmarker with a highlighter
• Homemade candle
• small purse mirror
• Lottery Tickets
• Packs of gum bought in bulk
• Bookmarks – pictured above.
• Homemade trail mix
• Chocolate covered peanut clusters– make your own.
• Adorable Llama pens
• Almost anything from the Target dollar bins or dollar store

What else can you think of?

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