Gifts and Gift Giving: Making your own creative gifts if you are not creative. 

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Gifts and the giving of gifts: Most of us like to give gifts that are appreciated and many of us need to save money, particularly at an extensive gift times.

Not everyone is creative, of course. But most of us like to give gifts that are appreciated and many of us need to save money, particularly at an extensive gift time such as Christmas.

Gift Calendar
Collect your family and/or friends birthdays, anniversaries, and other special days. Your computer has a program to create a calendar. Print calendars with those special dates filled-in. You can have this gift calendar bound at the local office supply store for a nominal charge. This is a welcome gift and... it is a gift that can be repeated next year!!

Who would enjoy this calendar as a gift?

• Any adult family member needs to remember special days for gifts or cards.
• Your circle of friends with other friends' birthdays and anniversaries, even children's birthdays.
• Your non-profit or play group will have a record of birthdays and special days from your gift.
• Employee birthdays at work is a good gift for everyone on your team.
• Any organization that has deadlines or special days has some person in the organization who has to remember them. And they will remember your gift, too.

Birthday or Holiday Book for a Child's Gift
CyberParent made this one easy for you. Print out a few appropriate pages here, then paste them in a scrapbook with a few photos and a few blank pages for the gift recipient's additions. You have the perfect gift for a child. 

Start a Photo Album as a Gift for Anyone
You don't have to do the entire album. Just a few special pages is enough for a growing gift. Give a few more pages next year.  

The Growing Gift
1. Start a plant from one of your own, rooting it far enough ahead of time to be established by gift time. Put it in an interesting container--maybe a gift from a second-hand or thrift store. Type the care instructions to go with it from your computer.

2. Buy small bedding plants of flowers, then plant three in a pot in a triangle. Plan ahead to give them time to fill-out and flower. It is a beautiful gift. Again, it can be repeated.

3. Find inexpensive strawberry pots (second-hand stores or close-outs) and fill with strawberry plants or flowering plants. Another beautiful gift. 

The Gift of Recipes
Start a collection of recipes focusing on a special interest. Print them from your computer on card stock or glue them to an index card. Buy or make an inexpensive recipe card box to hold them. Or, buy a small 3-ring index binder to hold your gift of recipes. You can add recipes at other gift occasions.

Gifts for Men
Gifts for Women
Gifts for Kids
Family Gifts

Gifts and the giving of gifts.

Who would enjoy recipes as a gift?

• Anyone with a special diet would appreciate this gift--vegetarians, vegans, low-carb aficionados, diabetics.
• A person who hates to cook would love quick/easy recipes as a gift.
• Young adults or students leaving home should treasure easy recipes as a gift. 
• A person who does not know how to cook needs special directions in his/her gift.
• Chocoholics who crave chocolate cakes, candies, and other gooey chocolate desserts would love this mouth-watering gift.

If you have suggestions for another creative gift for uncreative persons, please send it here. Thank you.

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