Comments on: Holiday Gift Guide, Part 4: Frugal Homemade Gifts http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/holiday-gift-guide-part-4-frugal-homemade-gifts/ A premier personal finance blog, established 2003. Within, Flexo discusses his own experiences with money, and he and other authors comment on a wide range of personal finance topics. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:52:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jessica Bennet http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/holiday-gift-guide-part-4-frugal-homemade-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-128792 Jessica Bennet Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:45:41 +0000 http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2007/12/14/holiday-gift-guide-part-4-frugal-homemade-gifts/#comment-128792 Homemade gifts are worth offering indeed! It saves your money as you don't need to go to a mall or a store or shop online for your friends and relatives. To stay frugal during the festive season what is required is staying within a fixed budget so that one doesn't overspend. As for me, I've just followed some Christmas tips to stay stress-free and happy during this season. Here are 51 such tips and more: http://www.mortgagefit.com/budgeting/51tips-christmas.html http://www.betterbudgeting.com/articles/parenting/christmasbudgeting.htm Hope you find them interesting enough! Merry Christmas in advance! Homemade gifts are worth offering indeed! It saves your money as you don’t need to go to a mall or a store or shop online for your friends and relatives. To stay frugal during the festive season what is required is staying within a fixed budget so that one doesn’t overspend. As for me, I’ve just followed some Christmas tips to stay stress-free and happy during this season. Here are 51 such tips and more:

http://www.mortgagefit.com/budgeting/51tips-christmas.html
http://www.betterbudgeting.com/articles/parenting/christmasbudgeting.htm

Hope you find them interesting enough!

Merry Christmas in advance!

]]> By: SY http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/holiday-gift-guide-part-4-frugal-homemade-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-128270 SY Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:02:59 +0000 http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2007/12/14/holiday-gift-guide-part-4-frugal-homemade-gifts/#comment-128270 For this year's company Secret Santa, I drew the name of a co-worker who works at the opposite end of the country (but comes up to our offices about once a month) and we had a $5 limit on gifts. Talk about a challenge! So I decided to make fortune cookies. Paper ones, because I'll be danged if I'm going to risk burning my fingers folding edible ones. I printed a list of truisms by Jenny Holzer (they're much better than the you'll-win-lotto-today type fortunes) and cut them into individual strips and hid them in a fortune cookie I folded using brown manila cardboard. I found a workable cookie template after a few trial and errors. Here's a photo: http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1156/fortuneuz6.jpg I used 2 manila file folders (some of the cookies had File Master on their underside, lol!) at $0.50 each and I had a yield of about 35 cookies. I put them all inside a $2.99 cookie jar and wrapped it up with leftover tissue paper and red cellophane paper from another project. To make sure he 'got it', I composed a teaser poem on the gift tag: "In each of these A fortune untold; The question is Which will you unfold?" He was pleased as punch. :-) For this year’s company Secret Santa, I drew the name of a co-worker who works at the opposite end of the country (but comes up to our offices about once a month) and we had a $5 limit on gifts. Talk about a challenge!

So I decided to make fortune cookies. Paper ones, because I’ll be danged if I’m going to risk burning my fingers folding edible ones.

I printed a list of truisms by Jenny Holzer (they’re much better than the you’ll-win-lotto-today type fortunes) and cut them into individual strips and hid them in a fortune cookie I folded using brown manila cardboard. I found a workable cookie template after a few trial and errors.

Here’s a photo: http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1156/fortuneuz6.jpg

I used 2 manila file folders (some of the cookies had File Master on their underside, lol!) at $0.50 each and I had a yield of about 35 cookies.

I put them all inside a $2.99 cookie jar and wrapped it up with leftover tissue paper and red cellophane paper from another project.

To make sure he ‘got it’, I composed a teaser poem on the gift tag:

“In each of these
A fortune untold;
The question is
Which will you unfold?”

He was pleased as punch. :-)

]]> By: plonkee http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/holiday-gift-guide-part-4-frugal-homemade-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-128015 plonkee Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:01:12 +0000 http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2007/12/14/holiday-gift-guide-part-4-frugal-homemade-gifts/#comment-128015 Home made objects are great gifts if the recipient will like the item in question. Otherwise it's not really thoughtful at all, it's just having a hobby. I've been the recipient of a few too many home made gifts that I really didn't want. I do feel bad that someone put in effort into something that just isn't right for me. Home made objects are great gifts if the recipient will like the item in question. Otherwise it’s not really thoughtful at all, it’s just having a hobby.

I’ve been the recipient of a few too many home made gifts that I really didn’t want. I do feel bad that someone put in effort into something that just isn’t right for me.

]]> By: CF http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/holiday-gift-guide-part-4-frugal-homemade-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-128013 CF Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:04:56 +0000 http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2007/12/14/holiday-gift-guide-part-4-frugal-homemade-gifts/#comment-128013 Love the CD music mix idea. I have done this quite a bit and it always makes a fun, personal gift. Love the CD music mix idea. I have done this quite a bit and it always makes a fun, personal gift.

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