Cheap gift ideas

Can’t Find Fellini
San Diego Union-Tribune - Looking for unique gift ideas? Here’s one: Buy a set of hand-beaded purses to give out as bridesmaids’ gifts. The store reflects Newell’s great love for all things old and her deep passion for shopping. She claims to go shopping every day, hand

WEDDING GIFT
Daily Southerner - Ross Langley and Rhonda Hunt had planned on renovating their 1,700-foot Cape Cod-style home at 614 N. Howard Circle in Tarboro one room at a time. It would have been a lot of work for the couple, who plan to tie the knot June 16 in Jamaica. Instead

dear prudence
Slate - My father and stepmother are giving him a $20,000 mortgage down payment as a wedding gift. They say that he’s had a “hard life” and this will make starting out easier. I thought I was over my resentment about the college money. I can handle my loans

How Much to Spend on Wedding Gifts
KCTV 5 - Once you’ve figured out what you want to spend on the couple’s gifts overall, you can break it down by percentages so that the wedding gift gets the bulk of your cash. Spend: 20% of your total on the engagement present 20% of your total on the

Palissy’s naturalism guided porcelain style for centuries
Memphis Commercial Appeal - Family lore says it was a wedding gift in the mid- to late 1800s. The bottom has a printed mark showing an upside-down letter “V” over a crown. Inside the two outlined parts of the “V” are the words “Adderley” and “England.” There are also numbers

His Posts Speak Volumes
Town Hall - In one Ohio ceremony, the young girls agreed to “remain sexually pure until the day I give myself as a wedding gift to my husband.” http://www.boulderweekly.com/archive/112206/incaseyoumissedit.html That’s just adorable, isn’t it? What do the boys get

IDIOT IN THE KITCHEN –Yeast Waffles
Centre Daily - Forever an egg hater, I wasn’t a big fan of brunch until my wife Izabela decided that we were finally going to open the waffle maker, four years after receiving the unregistered-for wedding gift. And experiment. In the year and a half we’ve lived in

Springtime’s family time in the lives of the birds
Winston-Salem Journal - We have a beautiful blue and green birdhouse in our garden, a wedding gift from an artist friend. It is a treasured gift because of the care and craftsmanship Carol put into it, but more so for its symbolism. Crafted from recycled materials gathered

TALK ABOUT IT
Town Hall - Delaware Sen. Joe Biden: 1967 Corvette, a wedding gift from his dad in 1967 when Biden married his first wife, Neilia. New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: “For security reasons, we drive in Secret Service vehicles but the Service lets us use a Ford

Make Out of Town Wedding Guests Feel at Home
Brookfield Daily News - It is a gesture of fondness for guests to travel to the wedding, but it can get expensive. Transportation, hotel and dining expenses add up quickly. And then there’s the wedding gift. Choose a hotel like AmericInn that offers much-appreciated

Confessions of a guy who bet on Beta Max
Bismarck Tribune - For years I have given Ginsu knives as my signature wedding gift, and though nobody has ever thanked me or repressed a fair dollop of peevishness, I know that time is on my side and the moment will come, sometime in the next century, when they write