Holiday season

 Since all of us well behaved frugal types are making inexpensive gifts for those
we gift, what are you making?

Old favorites:

homemade jellies/ jams
homemade candy
homemade baked goods of any type
 

In view of the fact that more and more of my friends are diabetic the old
favorites are no longer such a great idea.  I like giving useful gifts.  I also
have a love for containers.  So growing gourds to be made into birdhouse/ candy
dishes/ plant cover pots/ pencil holder is an idea that should have started last
spring.  Maybe that will happen next year.

This year I am doing t-shirts.  I am hand painting pictures using fabric paint
on the front of pre-washed pocket t-shirts as gifts for most extended family
members, sweatshirts for husband and son.

For my children and grandchild, I have crocheted twin bed size afghans for added
winter warmth.

Homegrown potted plants from cuttings off my houseplants as gifts to business
associated.  I cut the top out of 2lt plastic soda bottles for the pots, then
wrapped tin foil to decorate.  If doing this, I recommend a small hole in the
side of the pot to drain off excess water.

  Vandy Terre wrote:


those we gift,

The seriously frugal dont bother with gifts at all. They are just a commercial
con.


Nothing, nada, zero, ziltch.


I basically do that with my time, when people cant get their technology to work.