We are not rich anyway but this year has been especially tight with high medical bills, so we are doing simple gifts this year. I plan to make our gifts (this thread is full of great gift ideas) and so folks I know are getting make-a-mix foods and handmade bath products. I can get baskets at either Cost Plus or maybe the dollar store. The food products are going into Mason jars with raffia or grosgrain ribbon ties, the bath products are going into canning jars with glass lids and wire hold-downs (I don't know what they are called).
I agree with you. Too many gifts are thrown out, returned for cash or given away. My aunt has a couple of hand-painted jars I gave her a few years ago still displayed in her kitchen. Those are the kinds of gifts people appreciate and remember!
The kids are all grown, and the gbaby has more than enough for 10 kids. He’s the only gbaby and the only great gbaby on both sides of the family. Grin I’m making him a blankie and the jammies and got him a few wooden puzzles.
I’ve made all my sisters and hubby’s quilts and afghans and... I’ve just about quit baking because everybody is either on a diet or diabetic... I love making stuff—ha ha—but we’re all older now and don’t need things like we did when we were younger. We’re mostly down to a family dinner out somewhere so we don’t have to cook and clean up and everybody brings one present and we draw numbers or something. Last year I made a basket of bird seed, feeders, dog treats, etc. We all have dogs and we all feed birds. It worked out great. :)
I did get my sil’s jammies done. She told me medium. I got the pattern out and said No way! I made a small and cut it down. She loves them!