10 Budget Friendly Christmas Giveaways Ideas
1.Christmas Cards
Perhaps the easiest way to find free Christmas cards is to dig through your holiday supplies to see if you have any left over from last year. If you’re handy with Photoshop and have card-stock paper for your printer, you can make your own cards. A card-making tutorial will get you started. To keep it cheap, save on postage by hand-delivering the cards as you visit friends and family in the weeks leading up to Christmas. You can also find free printable Christmas cards online. You could also make your own cards out of paper and magazine cut-outs; simply cut out seasonal images or ones that resonate with each recipient and glue them onto construction paper.
2.Gifts Purchased with Gift Cards
If you have a few gift cards with credit, use them to buy Christmas gifts for others. This is a form of re-gifting, but one in which you’ll never have the embarrassment of the original giver recognising the gift in another person’s home.
3.Christmas Freebies
Many stores offer customers gifts this Christmas season. These gifts are usually for the first 100 customers, so get to your store of choice early! You can either re-gift the items you get, or use any gift cards you receive to buy Christmas gifts.
4.Recycled Gifts
Is it okay to “re-gift” items you received on prior holidays or birthdays? Per the Emily Post Institute, it’s acceptable if the gift meets certain criteria:
The recipient will truly enjoy the gift
It’s new and in the original packaging
It’s not especially meaningful to the original giver
It won’t create awkward moments between the original giver and the new recipient
Nobody’s feelings will be hurt
In other words, put some thought into the present.
5.Sweater Mittens
You might think it’s difficult to make mittens. But for sweater mittens, all you need is an old sweater and the following items:
Paper
Pencil
Scissors
Thread
Pins
Chances are, you already have all these things, in which case it will cost you nothing to make this unique Christmas gift. (If you need an old sweater, head to a local store to find one for a low price.)
6.Free Labour Gift Certificate
Consider giving the gift of your time and skills by offering a gift certificate for services. For example, make a card or certificate that is redeemable for a full-house cleaning or pet-sitting for an upcoming vacation. Family and friends will appreciate these gifts if you choose services you know they’d love. In fact, your friends with kids might like a few babysitting certificates more than any gift you could have bought them!
7.Scrabble Bracelet
Got an old Scrabble game? Use the lettered tiles to make awesome bracelets. If you don’t already have an old Scrabble game, buy a used one for a couple dollars at a thrift store. Spend a few dollars more in craft supplies and you’re ready to follow simple online instructions on how to make a Scrabble Bracelet. Personalize it with the recipient’s name or spell out something else with the wooden tiles.
8.Unique Cheapie's
If you have a little bit to spend, numerous low cost gifts are unique enough to be appreciated by the receiver, especially if he or she likes geeky stuff. For example, a Transformer USB flash memory drive looks cool. To make it special, you could pre-load it with a digital album of photos of the two of you.
9.Christmas tree ornament
It’s time to start building Christmas ornament collections of our own. With each ornament, you’re helping your friend get one step closer to not having to throw a whole bunch of those gold balls (that always fall off) on their tree.
10.A journal or notebook with a personal note
Keeping a journal can help increase focus, promote mindfulness, and boost memory. An empty notebook is also just full of promise, especially for a person of a creative or analytical bent.
Perhaps the easiest way to find free Christmas cards is to dig through your holiday supplies to see if you have any left over from last year. If you’re handy with Photoshop and have card-stock paper for your printer, you can make your own cards. A card-making tutorial will get you started. To keep it cheap, save on postage by hand-delivering the cards as you visit friends and family in the weeks leading up to Christmas. You can also find free printable Christmas cards online. You could also make your own cards out of paper and magazine cut-outs; simply cut out seasonal images or ones that resonate with each recipient and glue them onto construction paper.
2.Gifts Purchased with Gift Cards
If you have a few gift cards with credit, use them to buy Christmas gifts for others. This is a form of re-gifting, but one in which you’ll never have the embarrassment of the original giver recognising the gift in another person’s home.
3.Christmas Freebies
Many stores offer customers gifts this Christmas season. These gifts are usually for the first 100 customers, so get to your store of choice early! You can either re-gift the items you get, or use any gift cards you receive to buy Christmas gifts.
4.Recycled Gifts
Is it okay to “re-gift” items you received on prior holidays or birthdays? Per the Emily Post Institute, it’s acceptable if the gift meets certain criteria:
The recipient will truly enjoy the gift
It’s new and in the original packaging
It’s not especially meaningful to the original giver
It won’t create awkward moments between the original giver and the new recipient
Nobody’s feelings will be hurt
In other words, put some thought into the present.
5.Sweater Mittens
You might think it’s difficult to make mittens. But for sweater mittens, all you need is an old sweater and the following items:
Paper
Pencil
Scissors
Thread
Pins
Chances are, you already have all these things, in which case it will cost you nothing to make this unique Christmas gift. (If you need an old sweater, head to a local store to find one for a low price.)
6.Free Labour Gift Certificate
Consider giving the gift of your time and skills by offering a gift certificate for services. For example, make a card or certificate that is redeemable for a full-house cleaning or pet-sitting for an upcoming vacation. Family and friends will appreciate these gifts if you choose services you know they’d love. In fact, your friends with kids might like a few babysitting certificates more than any gift you could have bought them!
7.Scrabble Bracelet
Got an old Scrabble game? Use the lettered tiles to make awesome bracelets. If you don’t already have an old Scrabble game, buy a used one for a couple dollars at a thrift store. Spend a few dollars more in craft supplies and you’re ready to follow simple online instructions on how to make a Scrabble Bracelet. Personalize it with the recipient’s name or spell out something else with the wooden tiles.
8.Unique Cheapie's
If you have a little bit to spend, numerous low cost gifts are unique enough to be appreciated by the receiver, especially if he or she likes geeky stuff. For example, a Transformer USB flash memory drive looks cool. To make it special, you could pre-load it with a digital album of photos of the two of you.
9.Christmas tree ornament
It’s time to start building Christmas ornament collections of our own. With each ornament, you’re helping your friend get one step closer to not having to throw a whole bunch of those gold balls (that always fall off) on their tree.
10.A journal or notebook with a personal note
Keeping a journal can help increase focus, promote mindfulness, and boost memory. An empty notebook is also just full of promise, especially for a person of a creative or analytical bent.
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