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Your bartender. The store clerk who is always smiling. The receptionst at your health club or doctors office........people who arent close friends/family but you appreciate everything they have done for you all year.

At the gift shop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I bought 10 flashlights. These look and feel like a credit card, easy to stash in a wallet and are perfect for reading that menu or check in a dimly lite restaurant or anyplace else. Just press em to work. They cost $2.50 each.

Have you found any thoughtful creative cheap gifts like that?

Interesting rocks. Free by the side of the road.

I found some Nalgene Water Bottles at Big Lots for $2. People can always use a nice water bottle. I wish I had bought all of them so I would have X-Mas gifts for my staff.

I used to paint everyone unique Christmas tree ornaments. Blank bisque ornaments were like $.50-$1.00 and the paint wasn't too expensive.

im pretty handy with just about any kind of job you give me. so i can do carpentry and craft etc.
so i just make little things like custom frames with pictures. or i love to paint and i give them mini self portraits etc.
each gift can even be completely free (i mean i dont spend anything) because my dad is a mechanical engineer he thinks that he will find a use for just about anything. so i have pieces of timber everywhere, paint, etc.
my friends always seem to appreciate it since its from the heart. plus they seem to think i should be an artist but who knows.
i guess it beats having to spend $10 or even $20 on something that your friend is trying hard not to roll their eyes back at. lol
i know i try not to do it when i get shit gifts. and get told its $50

KissingPro saidYour bartender. The store clerk who is always smiling. The receptionst at your health club or doctors office........people who arent close friends/family but you appreciate everything they have done for you all year.

At the gift shop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I bought 10 flashlights. These look and feel like a credit card, easy to stash in a wallet and are perfect for reading that menu or check in a dimly lite restaurant or anyplace else. Just press em to work. They cost $2.50 each.

Have you found any thoughtful creative cheap gifts like that?

Oh How cool...would you please send me one...

We have some cool stuff around here I am sure...


Toe Nail Clippers?

inexpensive ok....but $2.50.....hmmmm...I would not feel comfortable doing that.

One year I bought a bunch of inexpensive glass pickle ornaments, made little cards about the history of the pickle ornament and bought minerature stainless steel tubs, filled with rafia, and tied a fancy bow around them.

Another year, I found a winery that has the same name as the development that I live in, so I bought all of my fav. neighbors a bottle of wine from this winery.

Another year I gave organic lavender chocolate.

And another year, I gave organic pancake mix with organic maple syrup.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do this year. I think that anything under $20 is an inexpensive gift and having so many neighbors that are friends, it helps me to keep it around that.

natural negative ion emmiting salt rock lamps!


everyone thinks im such a hippie when i whip out a planet organic bag and tell them its a present. theyre nice though!
do really want chocolate? fatass

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nice!