Free Christmas Gifts for Christmas 2011
Free - or Almost Free - Gifts You Can Create
Low budget Christmas gifts can be even more meaningful than the expensive gifts. Create a Christmas treasure for someone you love.
Avoid the financial stress of the holidays and create meaningful and treasured gifts for your family and friends. Here are a few of my favorite ideas to get your creativity moving!
A gift from the heart is always appreciated. And with low cost gifts, you can give even more!
Avoid the financial stress of the holidays and create meaningful and treasured gifts for your family and friends. Here are a few of my favorite ideas to get your creativity moving!
A gift from the heart is always appreciated. And with low cost gifts, you can give even more!
Write Your Personal History
Give a piece of yourself this year - write your personal history for your family. Even if you just get started with it, a few pages and a promise of more pages to come would make a great and lasting gift.There are questions to get you started on How to Write Your Personal History. Choose 10 questions, type the questions and the answers in a pretty format, print and place in a 3 ring binder and present to your family. What a treasure!
Happiness Book
One of our favorite marriage traditions is the Happiness Book. We started this way back in 1964, long before the age of personal computers. In those days, we used folded typing paper and created pages of happy memories of the previous year. We added magazine cut-outs for words and pictures.
Each page starts with the words Happiness Is...
and yours might say
Happiness is.... a trip to the beach
Happiness is ... a special sunset
Happiness is ... the night we saw a falling star
Happiness is ... the birth of our first child
Happiness is ... arriving home from work and finding you here.
Happiness is ...grilling hamburgers.
Keep it simple and real.
These little books are such a treasure to us both! Create a happiness book for your spouse! It's guaranteed to bring a smile!
Each page starts with the words Happiness Is...
and yours might say
Happiness is.... a trip to the beach
Happiness is ... a special sunset
Happiness is ... the night we saw a falling star
Happiness is ... the birth of our first child
Happiness is ... arriving home from work and finding you here.
Happiness is ...grilling hamburgers.
Keep it simple and real.
These little books are such a treasure to us both! Create a happiness book for your spouse! It's guaranteed to bring a smile!
Create a Cookbook
Family memories seem to revolve around mealtime and special foods from home. Gather 20 to 30 of your family's favorite recipes. Type one recipe to a page. Add family pictures and quotes to each page. Print and place in a 3 ring binder. And you have another gift that family members will enjoy for years to come.This idea is not limited to families. You can create favorite recipes of your friends, or your own favorite recipes to share with your friends.
Three ring binders can be purchased with a clear front sleeve, so that you can create an amazing cover - an original for each book! Use photographs - people love to see happy photographs of themselves!
Visit How to Make Your Own Family Cookbook for details and more ideas.
"When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things-not the great occasions-give off the greatest glow of happiness."
-- Bob Hope
Personalize your Wrapping Paper
Print full size photos or collages of photos of each family member and use that page to wrap gifts! Imagine looking under your Christmas tree and seeing photos of all your family and friends smiling back at you!
This is a great way for pre-schoolers to help find their own gifts or help with the gift-sorting. Simply print a photo page or tape photos to their gifts. Children and adults love to see their own photo on their gifts!
And you can do this right at home with your own computer and printer!
This is a great way for pre-schoolers to help find their own gifts or help with the gift-sorting. Simply print a photo page or tape photos to their gifts. Children and adults love to see their own photo on their gifts!
And you can do this right at home with your own computer and printer!
"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."
-- Peg Bracken
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My husband and I are proud grandparents. Somehow he manages to write each little memory with the grandchildren - the funny things they say, the happy things we do together. On special days like Mothers Day and Fathers Day and Christmas, I type as many pages as I can get done, and present to their parents!Busy parents rarely have time to make notes of these precious sayings and events. What a gift!
Writing memories is a low cost gift indeed, and a treasure for generations.
Add your creative ideas here - or just say hello and Merry Christmas!
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marsha32
Dec 26, 2011 @ 3:30 pm | delete
- I have the Everything Family Christmas book in kindle form. I can't wait to delve in to it and see what all the ideas are. I've only had the chance to skim it so far.
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ludys
Dec 24, 2011 @ 10:53 am | delete
- Merry Christmas! I like the idea of free gifts for Christmas.
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Janiece
Dec 9, 2011 @ 5:18 pm | delete
- The best gifts are the free ones! Merry Christmas!
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GayleMcLaughlin
Nov 10, 2011 @ 6:03 pm | delete
- I like the family history idea! What a treasure!
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noobeegin
Dec 5, 2010 @ 10:55 am | delete
- Thank you for the great suggestions. Merry Christmas!
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sandyspider
Dec 3, 2010 @ 8:31 pm | delete
- Thanks for the great ideas.
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annmackiemiller
Dec 3, 2010 @ 8:48 am | delete
- great lens - I will feature it on my unique gift ideas lens that I am just creating.
happy holidays
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ShamanicShift
Nov 29, 2010 @ 5:24 pm | delete
- This lens is featured as Gift Idea 7 on my lens Gifts-That-Dont-Cost-Money because I found your lens right after I added Gift Idea 6 and your's continues from there.
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CCGAL
Aug 14, 2010 @ 2:56 pm | delete
- Video memories on CD make great gifts; we've discovered that even "bloopers" are much appreciated for lots of family laughs.
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JenOfChicago
Sep 30, 2009 @ 1:12 pm | delete
- Good ideas - I like the writing your own history for the kids and grandkids the best.
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hlkljgk Apr 23, 2009 @ 8:21 pm | delete
- great ideas!
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mbgphoto
Dec 19, 2008 @ 10:20 am | delete
- Very good ideas! Thanks! Merry Christmas!
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marsha32
Dec 11, 2008 @ 9:33 am | delete
- I make a lot of my gifts...you already know that by looking at my lenses :)
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rakshat
Dec 8, 2008 @ 1:50 am | delete
- Merry christmas 2008& happy new year2009.
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rakshat
Dec 8, 2008 @ 1:50 am | delete
- Merry christmas 2008& happy new year2009.
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chic_boots
Dec 7, 2008 @ 12:25 am | delete
- Very creative and wonderful lens :)
Sarah
Chic Boot Zone
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a_willow
Nov 26, 2008 @ 12:08 pm | delete
- Wonderful lens Joan! Love these ideas!
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Nov 23, 2008 @ 5:24 pm | delete
- I make some of my Christmas gifts every year. Sofa pillows, aftgans, lap robes... Its fun.
Great lens with more great ideas
BJ
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mukunda22
Nov 19, 2008 @ 6:29 pm | delete
- I love this, Joan!!
Many thanks!!
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MiaBellezza
Nov 19, 2008 @ 4:57 pm | delete
- Wonderful concept lens Joan - 5*!
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dustytoes
Nov 15, 2008 @ 12:53 pm | delete
- Wonderfully creative ideas...thanks!
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Pantherart Nov 14, 2008 @ 9:28 pm | delete
- You sure come up with some really great ideals Joan great lens 5 stars
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GrowWear
Nov 14, 2008 @ 8:17 pm | delete
- Joan, these are wonderful ideas. When my sister was pregnant with my amazing nephew, I saved all of her letters to me about her pregnancy and put them in a book. Many years later, she still has it. ...Absolutely love the idea of documenting special moments in the grandkids' lives for giving to the parents as gifts. That's extra kind and thoughtful!
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lwhitelaw
Nov 14, 2008 @ 7:41 pm | delete
- Great lens Joan - way to go!!
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squidtwo
Nov 14, 2008 @ 5:10 pm | delete
- What a wonderful lens! I used to always tell my neighbor that my favorite gift was a hand crocheted item made with leftover yarn. It always made her feel so good when I said that! :)
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