Well, hopefully, I'm currently full of gift ideas. Take a look at them before I turn out of inspiration (it happens to me so often!) Here are some non expensive gift ideas for our beloved ones: - Their first/last name history printed on a parchment paper; - Make them become the hero of a novel; - Personalized street panel with their personal informations or what they mean to you; - Give them a newspaper where they are the headline; - Give them the newspaper published on their birthdate; - A personalized wine or alcohol bottle; - A Marriage anniversary plate: if they didn't think to buy one, they will appreciate the one you'll give to them; Ok these are personalized gifts, but I think that personalizing a gift can prove the love you have for them and they will appreciate! Hope this helps :)

Most everyone in my family seems to prefer cash. Some things I've done that might give you ideas: - one year my parents wanted new wallpaper so I got lots of bills in smaller denominations and taped them together into a long sheet that was wrapped around a cardboard tube, just like wallpaper. They loved it! - my niece is an artist so I bought a nice frame and framed the money in it - my nephew said he only wanted money one year, so I made an origami shirt from a single bill and put it into a jewelry box. I told him all he was getting from me was a shirt. :o) I thought they were cute ideas and I had a lot of fun doing them. Maybe you have some notion of things they like and you can be creative that way? From a more practical perspective, you could buy something like a wallet or phone carrying case and give the $$ inside it. This post was edited by party_music50 on Tue, Dec 17, 13 at 21:14

Gifts are good to give out to others due to they can be used for shopping at stores for only they can know and buy what they like. Grocery gift cards are a good one too, in fact if grandparents are doing the cooking all the time for these expensive meals, I see them here and that is a huge cost for them, help them by giving them gift cards for those and not break their budget or go without after its all over, food has become hugely expensive and hard to buy at times. Gas gift cards for those driving cars. Restaurants, book stores, there are such a variety of gift cards that can be bought and what they like and can choose what they like themselves. But think of ones you are giving gift cards and will they use them as all many not like them or not go out and about to use them. I caught this show where they were talking about gift cards and one loves them so much for everything from going to movies, to food, to gas, to shopping all those things to do. Another said she has a huge pile of them and hates them, feels they are a unthought gift. Another said she likes to actually open up a gift given. I tried that with my brother and sil years ago as I couldn't afford their expensive taste so thought I would give card where they shopped back then and they hated them said that is an unthought gift. There are many that are hard to buy for and you give up then as they aren't happy with anything. I would love to have something like grocery gift card, bookstore gift card, for me those are useful and great gifts to have but I have no one to give anything like that to me except if I do it to myself. LOL kathy

I love giving these kind of boxes to my daughter. The Japanese puzzle boxes are beautiful, but expensive. Especially if you have the 30 or so step ones. And I think she figured them out faster than it took me to open them to put the money in. What was really fun was something like this puzzle box in the picture. If I remember correctly, I even asked here on the Kitchen table for hard riddles to come up with the letters for the solution.