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Quick Gift Ideas, Hints, Tips
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Chronicle your family history by assembling photographs, letters, and important documents.
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Frame a meaningful photograph
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Put together a photo album of your family, baby or friends.
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Create a book of family recipes
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Give children a gift of music lessons instead of another toy.
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Give children a gift of sports lessons instead of another toy ie Tennis lessons
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Give the gift of time. Begin with a gift certificate that offers babysitting, a home-cooked meal, or a monthly lunch date with a relative or friend.
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Donate to a charity in the name of a loved one. (see here)
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Give fair trade items such as tea, coffee, or chocolate.
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Give homemade baked goods, cookies, cakes etc...
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Create a special memory by going to a museum, sports game or concert with a loved one or close friend.
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Give away one of your favorite things.
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Make an emergency kit/first aid gift basket with a blanket, flashlight, gas can, jumper cables, and flares.
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Give potted flowers or herbs.
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Create a book of lyrics from a collection of favourite songs for a music fan, you could make a book or collection of cards the same size as their ipod.
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Call an estranged friend or write a letter to someone you haven't seen in a few years.
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Have a Gift swap. Get together a few like-minded friends and trade gifts.
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Buy a book for someone, a recipe book for a woman (or man), a novel for someone wo has a lengthy journey in to work, a sports biography for a sports fan.
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Buy some bath & beauty products wrap then in a nice scarf and secured with cute hair thingies.
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Get each person an ornament that symbolizes something in their life.
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Try a 10-in-one screwdriver set or other such small useful tool, some thermal underwear, a t-shirt or other garment. Wrap the tool in the clothes item and make a bow out of a tie (you could also tie them with a belt).
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Fancy bottles can be had for reasonable prices, and you could fill 'em up with a bulk purchase of say, a gallon shampoo from a Beauty supply, make a fancy label for 'em, it's all in the presentation.
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Buy a coffee cup warmer, one of those electric pads (USB) you can put a ceramic cup of coffee on to keep it warm.
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Put together a CD of their favorite music play while jogging/driving etc... create a nice CD cover label.
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Bath products. get something nice and smelly, such as body wash and matching lotion. The pound store is a great source for these. Buy a basket or colorful plastic container to put them in and add a loofah or bath scrunchie. Pretty and perfect for the girls and women.
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Pretty jars from yard sales filled with sweets and/or nuts are generally acceptable, if you are recognized to be on a seriously low budget.
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Create your own, Digital camers gift pack, Digital camera, memory card, frame, photo album, you can also print out a "Digital Photo Internet shop" advert to enable them to upload the photos to a online photo album, and order prints.
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Buy some Jeans/trousers plus a belt. You can roll the jeans up and tie with a belt, then place them in a large tube. Attach the belt to the jeans/trousers, fold and place in a box, if you wrap them in some tissue paper, they will look very classy.
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Similar to above, if you are buying a shirt, maybe compliment this with a tie, add a tie pin as a finishing touch, again wrap in tissue paper and place in a gift box.
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