Looking for ideas on Holiday Gift Giving!

Dollar store finds will be what I will be giving, but also since someone gave me yarn, hats and a weaving. I will also make some stuff from recycled items once I finished the hats and the weaving. Like whatever I can figure out for entrance rugs from plastic bread bags. What are your skills? Can you weave, braid, knit, crochet, sew, glue, etc.? What do you normally throw away? What grows in your area? I've taken remnants or old clothes and cut them into squares, sewed them to make mini pillows and stuffed them with other pieces of clothes or leftover polyfill or milkweed fluff (down) and dried balsom needles. They make great air fresheners for chests of drawers, if you put a ribbon loop on one, it can be used in a closet. You could also do the same with a little cat nip if he has a cat. We made pine cone ornaments with glue and glitter one year, now there is glitter glue combined and often you can get that at the dollar store. If you have pine cones, you can make tons of them, if you have any ribbon, they can be hung up. If he was a she, jean purses would be cool. Almost anything can be made into a picture frame if you have a picture of the two of you, cardboard covered with anything including scrapbooking material, cloth, yarn, twigs, etc. Backing cardboard and front cut out so there is an open part in the middle. Veggie net bags can be washed and used to hang soap, or crocheted or even turned a few times and they can be made into scrubbies. Old cards, the pictures can be cut out and glued back to back to make ornaments. Old cloth and anything to stuff it with can be used to make a bigger pillow. What do you have that you would normally throw out? What does he need? It's hard for me to help when I don't know what you have.

For opur grandkids wqe always get them an outfit or two each and a small and large toy as well. Our own kids get what they need or want most times. I have no idea yet as to what to get my daughter and son-in-law. Nor do I have any ideas yet for my wife. One thing that makes a great gift is a jar filled with the ingredients for their fave cookie or cake etc. Then as a gift tag the directions are added. Not exspensive and from the heart as well. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

I started baking cookies today. I will bake bread and make candy and fill containers. We have a large family and Its hard to buy for everyone. I would rather use my cooking skkills to cook because I know they will all be hungry and enjoy munchin on goodies. I baked 12 dozen cookies today and made chocolate pretzels and I will do more tomorrow.

i think i am pretty smart because i start shopping the day after christmas (we call it boxing day here in canada and the day is like the US's black friday) and so to that end, i am pretty close to being done my shopping (maybe about 80% done! YAY! i do a lot of crafts to for christmas like crocheting scarves and i also have made some scrapbooks for our 4 nieces.

Well,most of the ideas that I had have already been given here. Check the dollar stores as they have some nice gifts for everyone. I believe that the 17 year old girl would like the cozy(fuzzy) socks or gloves that are at the store. I seen matching hats,gloves,and a scarf the other day. That would be a $3.00 gift that is a great idea! I hope you find something for her!

Do you do any crafts? I am making some scrapbooking displays for some family members, two small travel albums for my grandmothers (hopefully I'll get this done), hand stamped marble tiles that can be used as coasters or they can be displayed on a small stand. I know it's hard. I just picked up a number of shirts at Wal-Mart for a $1 each and $3 Hannah Montana pajamas for my daughter that I will be saving to give her. I'm not a big fan of Hannah, but I am a fan of the price.

I love to hit the dollar store they always have baskets and i make a gift basket of my own. I do bath and body gift baskets mostly but you can pick things for each person. i once did a movie gift basket with pocorn and candy and a gift cert to the movies. And lastly if you are brave enough you can shop black friday i always get alot of gifts cheap that day. Here i get movie for like 2 to 3 dollars its great.

I like giving food gifts, that is something that is hard to go wrong with. I go to a catalog place and send both of my brothers these breakfast gifts so that on Christmas morning they can have a nice breakfast and it doesn't cost them a dime. I always like food...everyone has to eat.

Hi heavens, You've already received some great ideas here, and you have some good ones of your own too. I love the types of homemade gifts that are mentioned. I've done gift baskets of my own in the past, and they're always a hit. They can be as expensive, or 'inexpensive' as you wish. I like the idea of the filled tins too. One year, my daughter made her own little felt pillows for friends. They were really pretty. She personalized them with sequins etc., and stuffed them with old socks. These types of gifts, made with great love and care, are often the best ones (to me.) By the way, I've also added a comment to Writersedge's response. Love and Hugs to you.

+As for gift giving, I look all through the year and when I come across something that is marked down or on clearenace and i know someone that would like it, I buy it. It gives you the whole year to buy and not have to rush the last few weeks to find gifts for friends and family. I was in local grocery some weeks back and they had these electric tea kettles on a close out for $2.50, really nice, so I bought 3, one for a friend, one for my son's girlfriend and one for my daughter. I seen the same one's in another store for $15.95 a piece.They have auto shut offs and hold a quart of water. If it wasn't for finding these kinds of gifts we wouldn't have Christmas. We are on a fixed income and after bills there isn't much left.