I guess I'm lucky here. We don't exahcnge anything with Mom's side, so it's my dad's two brothers, thw two aunts, my grandma and one cousin, so 6 people total for extended family to buy for. Everybody else is still relatively well off right now, so I'm pretty sure we're still doing gifts and I would feel even more like crap if I did nothing. I'm not planning on buying any restaurant.com GC's till at least next month, so we'll see what peole say at my Dad's birthday party in a few weeks. That's usually the deadline for submitting a Christmas list.
I've always had a fairly low per person budget, so getting crative here really isn't new to me. A lot of the gift ideas from SR are just more than I could afford. This was the first year I was supposed to be in a decent job and I was excited that I'd be able to get nicer stuff. Then some other stuff happened....and taht thought is on hold till next year.
These are the caosters I made for myself. I think I fugre that they probably ran me around a buck each to make, but since it was stuff I had on hand, it was really free.
I know the one aunt likes when I make them stuff, so she and my uncle might get coasters too. I've made placemats, tablerunners, and even a wall quilt or two for gifts in the past. That one aunt loves that kind of thing. The other one....I dunno. I only see the stuff I've made and given them come out when they have a big party.
I have a few ideas for my mom as well, and I've been keeping an eye on the ads in the paper to see if they go on sale. I've also thought of making her some Sudoku coffee coasters, since she's addicted to her sudoku. Since it's not really possible to make the whole grid on one, I'd make her NINE 9 patch coasters. Then when she opens it up and asks why the heck she needs 9 of them, I'm gonna tell her cuz she drinks a heck of a lot of coffee!
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