Cheap gift ideas

SHOPPING ON A BUDGET: Holiday tips for teens
Tuscaloosa News - One popular and inexpensive gift idea is a photo album. Taking pictures with family and friends is always fun, and those pictures capture memories that last a lifetime. Photo albums allow the receiver and the giver the opportunity to reflect on fun

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Slate - proffer a gift card to buy slinky underwear or jewelry, but cards from Victoria’s Secret and Tiffany bombed on eBay, reselling at roughly a 20-percent discount. Better still, why not buy a thoughtfully chosen but modest present? If an inexpensive gift

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Star-Banner - Using fusible web and ribbons, create an inexpensive gift wrap by weaving ribbon in a basket pattern. After fusing both with an iron, glue the piece onto a gift box and set your gift inside. For thousands of other ideas visit www.hgtv.com . DISCUSS THIS

The Hottest Trend in Card Giving This Year - Custom Holiday Postage
PR.com - For the “hard to buy for”, monogram themed postage stamps are a novel and inexpensive gift that creates quite an impression. Three sizes of postage are available for all of the holiday themes. Postage stamps can be customized with the sender’s

Letter: Common sense shouldn’t take back seat to fashion
St. Cloud Times - Simple, with all of the inexpensive gift bags and boxes available today, why not disguise shoes as one of the packages? A little plastic bag inside a holiday box or gift bag could be used over and over again for indoor footwear. When you take off the

How to have a hassle-free holiday time
McAlester News-Capital & Democrat - Attractively packaged, homemade cookies and candies can make an inexpensive gift. Jar gifts are also very popular and can include mixes for brownies, cookies or even soups. Layer the ingredients creatively and tie the jar with an attractive ribbon

Souls of generosity
News-Enterprise - It has caught on because the whole family can take part in packing a shoebox and a little gift can make a big difference, said Vowels. It is an inexpensive gift that anyone can do. Among the 3,036 boxes shipped from our area were two from 9

Food Stuff
MetroTimes - Available in two sizes and various colors, they cost $20, making a nice inexpensive gift. Look them up at pylones-usa.com . Know of any new restaurants, special dinners or food-related events? Let us know. Send materials two weeks in advance to Food

Be a dear and help kids give
Free Lance-Star - A coupon book is a nice, inexpensive gift that a child can give to parents, suggested Lisa Kanak of The Cropper’s Corner in Central Park. The child can fill it with lots of “today I’m going to” sentences, such as “today I’m going to make my bed.”

Alpharetta fine goes to Lake Lanier Association
Access North GA - Association President Jackie Joseph says, yes, it’s probably the most unusual gift - considering the circumstances - in the history of the group. A representative of the City of Alpharetta gave Joseph the check Tuesday morning at a ceremony at the

Astronomers covet unusual gift
San Jose Mercury News - This image provided by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a close-up of the red planet Mars when it was closest to the Hubble Space Telescope - just 55 million miles (88 million kilometers) away taken with Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

Review: ‘Pushing Daisies’ - Girth
SyFy Portal - As a result of his unusual gift, there are certain times that Ned finds it difficult to connect to the rest of the world. All Hallows Eve is just one such occasion. Does Pushing Daisies really require a seasonal episode at this early stage

Banks say they
Charlotte.com - That’s largely because of an unusual gift made by Golden West Financial Corp., which Wachovia acquired last year. Shortly before the merger became official, the California-based mortgage specialist transferred about $370 million in Freddie Mac stock