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.
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.
One-Hour Christmas Crafts (Leisure Arts #15851)
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 12/15/2009) 
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!
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How to Write Your Personal History
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A personal history is one of the nicest gifts we can leave our children and grandchildren. Telling your story allows your grandchildren and even your great-great-great grandchildren a glimpse into your life. Write your story! One of the items I trea...
From Today's Mantra
Carol Wingert and Mr 2020
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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
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How To Make a Family Cook Book
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A family recipe book is actually a collection of memories of our lives. Old family recipes will disappear with time if we do not make an effort to preserve them. Often our most powerful memories are those involving food - the comforting smell of cook...
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!
Free Workbook for the Goal-setter on Your List
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This workbook is my own creation. A goal-setting workbook for you to print and give to the goal-setters in your family. The workbook is complete with instructions and is suitable for teens and adults. And yes, it really is free!All you need to do is print the workbook and place it in a 3 ring binder. Create a beautiful personalized cover. A perfect way to start the new year for anyone on your list.
Visit How to Set Goals with Pictures for directions and ideas.
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How to Set Goals with Pictures
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Set your goals and dreams in a different way! Using pictures from magazines and cut-out words, you can create a picture of your goal/dream. It's fun, it's easy, it's effective! You certainly need to give this technique a try -- make at least one page...
"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."
-- Peg Bracken
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Memories on Paper
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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!
Or if you prefer to be more luxurious....
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Extravagant Christmas Gifts
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Do you value a gift by the cost? Love the lush and extravagant gifts? Do you measure friendships by how much someone spent on you this year or last? This is the place for you! This site is dedicated to those with unlimited credit cards, overflowing...
Add your creative ideas here - or just say hello and Merry Christmas!
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- JenOfChicago JenOfChicago Sep 30, 2009 @ 1:12 pm
- Good ideas - I like the writing your own history for the kids and grandkids the best.
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- hlkljgk hlkljgk Apr 23, 2009 @ 8:21 pm
- great ideas!
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- mbgphoto mbgphoto Dec 19, 2008 @ 10:20 am
- Very good ideas! Thanks! Merry Christmas!
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- marsha32 marsha32 Dec 11, 2008 @ 9:33 am
- I make a lot of my gifts...you already know that by looking at my lenses :)
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- rakshat rakshat Dec 8, 2008 @ 1:50 am
- Merry christmas 2008& happy new year2009.
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