Free-ish Present ideas

karmachilovething

OK so there are several things that lead me to this idea:

A got the amazon newsletter this week with their 4 books on special this week, including the book for the A History of The World in 100 Objects for £13.50.

A nice Christmas present I thought. Then looking at the reviews one person pointed out that the full Radio 4 series is still available to download as free podcasts. It took me about 30min to download them all.

Now earlier this year a friend told me his Dad had made him some CDs of podcast for his Christmas, by far the best thing he received that year.

And so I thought, Buy the book and make an accompanying CD of all the pod casts (which I will probably do for my Dad's birthday on 1st Jan), but the podcast CD would be a more or less free but lovely gift (just the cost of the CD and maybe a nice label printed up?) :money:

And the idea would be applicable to other podcast releases, you'd just need to have a think what they might be interested in.

Hope this is useful to some of you out there.

laura16_2

Thats a really good idea would be nice if anyone could think of any others, such as the vouchers that you can give people for things like a "meal cooked by me" things like that all printed up and made nice.

mary-op

Due to circumstances I've been trying to have a ''free'' christmas...............not quite worked out but I've worked out a few ''freebie pressies''

Always worth looking on the Freebie Board here for samples...........I managed to get enough to fill up a couple of empty twiglet tubs so I've created ''pamper pots'' for couple of my friends.
Made some button necklaces from my mums old buttons............they went down well for couple of birthdays this year,
SOS boxes for my sons -little sectioned off boxes like the inner of a tool box filled with stuff they might run out of and need............sticky plasters, batteries, candles, sachets of coffee/tea, couple of strepsils, etc. -all stuff I'd already got at home anyway so just thinned it out a bit.
Candles that were 75p postage only for 6
Couple of DVD's -postage only from Sunday Paper

Lost track without consulting my ''list'' but there's a recycling thread on here with lots of ideas as well as the craft ones.

Willow92

I found two pretty necklaces that I haven't worn for aaaages and a cute little box to put them in for my future mother in law ^-^