Cheap Xmas Gifts?

Question

I'm looking for presents to give to my friends and teachers. Recipies would work too.

I'm looking for ideas....
I'm 13 and i have like 5 friends to get for.
any ideas?
[im really poor like $5]

Answer 1

gumballs.....works for me
kidding.
homemade gifts are best. my best friend made me a necklace with clay and some string. i never took it off. make little stockings...not hard at all if you can't sew just glue. then fill them with candy and write their names on them.

Answer 2

A calendar made on your computer and personalized with birthdays or other special days.
Hot pads are just densely woven material filled with rice or other grains. Just sew three sides of a rectangle, then fill it with grain and sew the fourth side closed. Add a tag with instructions to heat two to three minutes in the microwave.
If you knit, don't stop at sweaters or warm things. Knit dishcloth and towel sets from cotton yarn for the kitchen, or face cloths and hand towels for the bathroom. A two dollar towel is a luxury when it's handmade.
If you do other crafts, look for unique patterns and ideas. Personalize them by using the right colors, styles, etc., for the person in mind.
Jewelry can be made very inexpensively with materials like shells, rocks, buttons or feathers. Mountings are very cheap at craft stores.
If your giftee likes popcorn, package up a "special seasoning", (or dehydrated cream soup or sauce) and add a bag of popcorn. (This makes a video seem like an extra special gift.)
If you're sending gifts to family or friends far away, look at what is naturally abundant where you live that they might not have access to. Pecans and black walnuts, citrus fruit, piñon nuts - depending on where you live, these things might seem common and cheap, but to someone else, they may be hard to come by, and expensive.
If you have muslin or something similar on hand, make small (1 - 2 tablespoon size) muslin bags. Fill with oatmeal mixed well with a drop or two of essential oil (extracts for food will work). To use, drop a bag into the tub while running bathwater. Package these in a plastic bag or container with snug fitting lid.
Use your computer to print out bookmarks, calendars, labels, patterns, forms, recipes, pictures and so forth. Present them in collections, either in booklet form (use a stapler) or paste onto index cards and present them in a recipe box. For children, print a collection of coloring pages from the internet.
Buy or make a recipe box and fill it with your special, ethnic or cultural recipes. Make it as large a collection as you can.
Many house plants can be easily propogated by cuttings, so if you have some, find out what it takes and get it started in time to for it become established before giving. Tie it up with a pretty bow.
If it's too late to start a potted plant from one of your own, find an interesting planter (mug, wide mouthed vase, canning jar, etc.). Put a few small rocks in the bottom and fill with planting soil. Plant herb or other seeds, then water and keep it warm until time to give. Print instructions for watering, light, and anything else necessary.

Answer 3

This is what I do - I buy a box of Lil' Debbies Gingerbread Men. They are individually wrapped - I think they come 8 to a box for $1.25. Find some old material and rip it into little scraps to tie tiny "scarves" around their necks. (or use some ribbon) Next - I buy some sticker hearts (you can usually buy these for a $1.00 for bunches) and put a sticker over the heart area of the gingerbread man. They look so cute.

I buy a pack of $1.00 Christmas cards at Dollar Tree, Dollar General - there are usually 12-24 in these boxes. In the card I write the following at the bottom - "I can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Quote from Mother Theresa. and then I sign my name.

Attach the gingerbread man to the outside of the card with tape (or sometimes you can slip them inside the Christmas card).

Then I hand these out - they look sweet - and it lets people know that you care about them and were thinking of them. And - it costs about 40 cents a piece - for eight gifts.

Answer 4

I'm doing a semi homemade Christmas this year because i have like 25 people to buy for; try yahoo searching Christmas crafts or you could make fleece tie scarves like the fleece tie blankets just find some cute cheap colors of fleece and have fun with it

Answer 5

Homemade gifts, like the.. I think 1st person said. My gramma said when she was little, they were poor and couldn't afford anything great. Her sisters bought a couple of dolls and sewed a box full of homemade clothes. She said it was the best gift. It didn't come from a store. It came from their heart.

Answer 6

Calendars. You can always keep an assortment of calendars and then give them to those surprise people who got you a gift but you didn't get them one. Everyone can use another calendar.

Answer 7

You said recipes would work...make a recipe booklet for your teacher.....use small scrap book and write/type/paste some in
put her name on the front and decorate it............

Friends.....

Picture frame with you/them in it

A paper frame with a letter to them from you...decorated

Something of yours you know they want

Go to dollar/bargain stores they have plenty of 2 for $ 1.00
items

I have seen note pads with persons names on them

Frames usually $ 1.00

I hope this helps a bit.............

Answer 8

Victoria It's your news?
http://www.osoq.com/funstuff/extra/extra04.asp?strName=Victoria

Answer 9

Go to target and go to the one dollar section. They have mini coin purses, fuzzy pens, cutes earrings etc.