Festive Fivers Contest.

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More Gift Ideas:

Idea: Showing Kindness
Financial Cost: Minimal

Prepare and deliver meals
Offer to babysit/cook/houseclean/iron/shop/garden
Wash windscreens
Give carwash/valeting 'vouchers'
Look out for older people - check their footpaths are safe in icy weather, offer to check their fire alarms, change lightbulbs, put the rubbish out. Make sure they are warm and well fed and spend some time talking with them.


Idea: Plant gifts

Take clippings of your plants - grow them - give them away
Buy bulbs - give them as bulbs or plant them in old containers
Give your children packets of seeds and a garden trowel and their own little garden area

ykceb

name of present- personalised t-shirt
do you make it or buy it-both
total cost- £3 to £5
details- Buy a really cheap plain t-shirt from tesco for £2 to £3 depending if you want long or short sleeves. Use old button and ribbon from around the house or if you havent got any thing around the house, use wholesalers and markets have really cheap buttons and ribbon.
What you then do is around the bottom of the t-shirt sew on the ribbon. with the buttons you can sew them on around the neck or near the sleeve in a cluster. But you can let your creative juices flow and come up with a great design. To give it that extra personalised touch get some fabic pen or paint and write the receipts name on the t- shirt.

Jo4

Name of present? Cleaning Gloves (Like Kim & Aggies)
Do you make it or buy it? Make it, although you can buy them for £7 in Tesco (Over budget).
Total Cost? 50p for the gloves and not a lot for whatever you stick on them and should definitely not be more than £5!!
Details (the more the better) Buy rubber gloves and then attach feathers, Christmas balls, tinsel, mistletoe, holly, glitter or whatever takes your fancy. They will come in useful after all those Christmas parties!! They will be very suitable for all those Miss Bouquets and Kim & Aggie fans that you know!
Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer n/a

frosty

Why not impress your friends and shop at HARRODS.. :j

https://www.harrods.com click on clearance and a list will drop down,click on Bears & Gifts make it/buy it ...buy it
nice gifts for under a fiver.
teddy trousers was £9.95 now from £4.50 :T
thomas bear booties were £9.95 now £3.95 :j
harrods chick was £9.95 now £2.95 :T
harrods bear feltbags were £9.95 now from £4.45 :j

click on food..............quails eggs £2.10 :eek:



click on fashion .........tote bag £3.75 :T

CAE

ykceb wrote:

name of present- personalised t-shirt
do you make it or buy it-both
total cost- £3 to £5
details- Buy a really cheap plain t-shirt from tesco for £2 to £3 depending if you want long or short sleeves. Use old button and ribbon from around the house or if you havent got any thing around the house, use wholesalers and markets have really cheap buttons and ribbon.
What you then do is around the bottom of the t-shirt sew on the ribbon. with the buttons you can sew them on around the neck or near the sleeve in a cluster. But you can let your creative juices flow and come up with a great design. To give it that extra personalised touch get some fabic pen or paint and write the receipts name on the t- shirt.

Just a thought, but it is probably not a good idea to put a childs name on any T shirt you might make. Certain people with ulterior motives could make out they know a child, just by looking at the name. Child then thinks they must know this person, and I'm sure you can see where this is leading. Sorry to put a dampener on proceedings, but you can't be too careful these days I'm afraid.

mrs.dimac

Name of present? Framed Photographic Collage

Do you make it or buy it? Make it.

Total Cost? From nil to as much or little as you like (dependant on where you get the fame)

Details (the more the better)
Use a frame from an old picture you no longer require or buy one cheap from somewhere like a market stall, car boot sale etc. Better still ask around for unwanted frames...
Go through your family photos, select a number of suitable ones and then arrange in the frame. Remove the back of the frame, secure the phots firmly into place and replace the frame back.
I have just made a 'trip down memory lane' for my teenage childrens' grandparents and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. Both parent s will be delighted.
You could theme this idea to suit a wide range of people from work colleagues (think of those christmas party photos...) to sporting friends and distant relatives.

Ally

CAE wrote:

Just a thought, but it is probably not a good idea to put a childs name on any T shirt you might make. Certain people with ulterior motives could make out they know a child, just by looking at the name. Child then thinks they must know this person, and I'm sure you can see where this is leading. Sorry to put a dampener on proceedings, but you can't be too careful these days I'm afraid.

I think you do have a very valid point there. However, the idea can be used still. Just don't wear the shirt out. My daughter did this for me on my birthday with a HUGE t-shirt she said it was 'personalised PJ's' So, you can still buy a plain t-shirt/night slip/night dress/shorts and the kids can go mad personalising their parent/s nightwear!

Lizbetty

How about the FAB book 'CHANGE THE WORLD FOR A FIVER'?
It should cost a fiver, funnily enough..but at Tesco Extra it's £4.75, go through https://www.linemypocket.co.uk and get 2% cashback, making it £4.65.

It's a book for folk who would like to do their bit to save money and the planet and generally be nice to others and things, 'inspiring people to use their everyday actions to change the world'. And it has some seeds in it so you can grow your own christmas tree (five, in fact). So that saves you even more!

It's one of those books that you can flick through quite nicely and pick up some good tips, bit like Martin's then!

Buy 5 of them for friends and family for christmas and you get free postage (free at Tesco on book orders over twenty quid, just enter 'freedelivery' into code space.

Hth, Luce x

tw1nklestar

hi colemans is a stationers so any stationers or office supply shop will sell little magnets - staples might sell them as well

silverchair

Name of present? Slime Time
Do you make it or buy it? Make it
Total Cost? Under 5 pounds
Details (the more the better)

This is a nice present for a child.
Instead of buying those science kits for making slime which are quite expensive, make it.

http://www.hamleys.com/invt/0000000562850

Decorate a shoebox. Add a small bottle of PVA glue (you can buy it from the Works). To make the borax solution add 1tablespoon of borax (I buy it from boots for cleaning) to 1 cup of water. Pour it into a nicely decorated bottle. Add a small bottle of water, some food colouring, a pipette, plastic cup and a small, plastic measuring cup (those free cups you get with cough medicine) to the shoe box. Next make an instructions card. To make the slime: add 2 drops of food colouring to the cup, measure 15ml of water and add this to the cup. Next measure 15ml of PVA glue to the cup and stir. Measure 10ml of the borax solution to the mixture and quickly stir. You should get a bouncy slime ball. To make it more slimey add less borax solution.
Its easy, cheap and fun for the kids to make.