The Festive Fivers competition is back!

Littleelagh

Bird boxes / feedersCost £1.50ish
Baker Ross sell a pack of 6 bird boxes or feeders for £6.38
These can be painted, personalised and look fabulous.


Kids can paint them, adults can too. Great for teachers and grandparents.

Pgandjsmum

Name of present: advent calendar of love
Bought or homemade: both
Total cost: about £3
Details: buy an advent calendar (chocolate ones better) then very carefully open all the windows (don't eat the chocolates though!). Next, write out 23 reasons you love the person the calendar is for and stick one behind each of the windows up to 23. Behind window 24 go all out and write an extra special message to tell them how much they mean to you... Then seal up all of the windows again, wrap up the calendar and present to your loved one on the first of December.

majors

Purchased
from £4.99
Jessops
(5% cash back through Quido)
Ask family and friends to donate pics and information and present a christmas version of this is your life.

Boomspaqetti

Name of present: Super Box of IOU'sHomemade
Cost: Free!
Partner get fed up of you not doing things for them? Want to show you DO care just sometimes things get in the way... Write and cut out some IOU's with things you know your partner will like. Then when they fancy it they can present you with their request at anytime. It could be 'run a bath' 'make dinner' 'foot massage' 'back massage' 'put the kids to bed' the list is endless! My other half did this for me and I loved it as he couldn't really argue with my request as he made them

HelenPetersBeads

Name of present: Recipe book
Bought or homemade: both
Total cost: However much you want to spend
Details: Get blank lined notebook, there's some pretty ones on paperchase at the moment (and some are reduced, http://www.paperchase.co.uk/invt/00495723/) or buy a plain one and decorate it, or if you're really crafty make your own.
In your best handwriting write in several of your friend's favorite recipes, maybe things you've cooked that they've liked. Leave the rest of the book blank for them to fill with recipes themselves. If your budget can stretch to it maybe add a pen.

HelenPetersBeads

Name of present: Chilli jam (a variation on the jam/chilli oil ones already suggested)
Bought or homemade: homemade but you'll need to buy the ingredients
Total cost: £6.55 but makes more than one pressie
Details: Collect small jam jars through the year, the Tesco Value range of condiments (mint sauce, cranberry sauce) come in nice small jars, and we want small jars as it gives the gift luxurious elegance, rather than a half pound jar of it.
Follow Nigella's recipe..... http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/chilli-jam-2692
Cost (tesco prices as of today): Chillies 60p per bag, will need 2 bags (on offer until 4/11 2 bags for £1)
Red pepper: 78p each, will need about 2
Jam sugar: £1.99 for 1kg, need 1
Cider vinegar (type in cYder if searching tescos): £1.05 for 350ml, need 2.

Be careful when you boil it, if you boil it too far it will go like toffee (if it does you can warm it, put it back in the pan and add some more vinegar to re-thin it) if you don't boil it enough it will be runny, but still nice.

money-saver-danny-g

Name of present: £5 worth of shares, preferably after researching an up and coming company
Whether it's bought or homemade: Bought
Total cost: £5
Details (where it's from, how to make it etc): Buy £5 worth of shares for a family member, friend or colleague.

OR, if a child of yours (where you are able to open an account in their name):

Name of present: £5 worth of savings or premium bonds
Whether it's bought or homemade: Bought
Total cost: £5
Details (where it's from, how to make it etc): Buy £5 worth of premium bonds for your child - a wonderful gift, a lesson in finance (if they're a teenager an important lesson nowadays) and more...

Both of these...

1. Could help them save more money in the future
2. Are lovely gifts that can be spent whenever
3. Could grow into something worth a lot more
4. Are likely to encourage further saving
5. Are a lesson and a kind gift all at the same time

Have a lovely holiday season all at MSE

Kaztaz

Total cost £2-£3, purchase a deep small frame, confetti and if you can not get the frame in the colour you like or that matches the room your going to put it in, also buy a tester pot of paint to paint it the colour of your room so it matches in well.

Get a wedding photograph that is left over and obviously not in the album and place this in the front of the frame but only covering a quarter of the frame and use the confetti and if you had silk flowers at your wedding take out two flowers from the bouquet carefully and break up into petals. Mix petals and confetti to fill the rest of the frame.

It is a lovely memory of your wedding day and a lovely romantic gift.

:happylove

Trish40

Breast Cancer Breakthrough bracelet£5.00 from Marks and Spencer
Could save a life as it advises how to check for breast cancer on the package. TLC-touch,look,check your breast.
Silver in colour with pink heart elasticated so fits all sizes.
Great gift for all my girlfriends, if it saves one life money well spent and assists great course.

Salutesyousir

This is a gift to someone whether you know them or not who needs the assistance of your time to either help them complete or start something they want to do, or just to give them company/friendship. It is a signed I.O.U. of your presence using your labour/skills for at least 1 day. This would be priceless and even unforgettable for some. Their greatest ever present from you. This can be written on a lovely small note you could print and send in an envelope or post yourself. Cost from 0p to 50p ish.