Affordable Christmas Gifts

[Mother Goose]

harvey norman are selling snow domes and baubels that you put photo's in. they'd make a nice Christmas Gift.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Little Kids:
Chalk, Jumbo Crayons, Coloring books, stickers, X-Mas Decoration

Adults:
Flavored Oil (bought DP garlic infused Oil for his b'day)
Photos - last yr each grandparent got one of those mini albums full of pics of DD, we also made Photobooks for people like BG said.
X-Mas Decoration, handmade or otherwise
If you have kids sometimes finger paintings or drawings put into a frame are great gifts.

I love the idea of seedlings etc

I can never help myself at x-mas so will be watching this thread for some great ideas!

[indie24]

My friend buys her mum a Christmas tree ornament (porcelin sp?) with her DD picture on it. I think it costs around $10. Now her mum has a Christmas record of how her GD grows over the years

[ss_storm]

Just got this week's Big W catalogue - their personalised calendars are $9.98 each, I will definitely be doing a few of these to distribute to family, and at $10 they make a cheap present that has sentimental value and is also useful! Not sure how much they normally are but I think that price is very affordable.

They also have digital keyrings, 2 for $20, normally they are about $15 each, so again a pretty good saving. Think I might get a couple for me and DF, says they hold up to 52 photos (1MB).

[Tinks]

I did personalised calendars last year and the one before. They are always a winner!

[*charmalea*]

i always ask for a meat or fruit tray

and those calenders sound cool !!!

i did up a hamper at the discont chemist for the familes i had to buy for , fit loads of stuff in for under $35 !!

also , the warehouse sells brandname toiletries so can do up a hamper and no one will know

and home made biccies /sweets are ALWAYS welcome (well they are in my house anyway )

ETA : if your after cool gifts for kids < $10 .. google kids gift list ... was a winner for me last year !!

[Nadine216]

Oh this year I'm making handmade gifts. It's a huge project, since I only started sewing this year. It's not that cheap (taking in account the wonderful fabric I just HAD to buy )

I'm making grocery totes, slippers, passport protectors, bookbags and various little trinkets like stichmarkers, bookmarks, earrings etc.

[ss_storm]

just checked out the Kids Gift List site- I could go crazy on there!! Have bookmarked it for future reference, some of the toys, although cheap, are quite nice!