I get a new pic of my nephew every year and I really love it.
I think my parents enjoy that kinda thing - any crap that Jake makes at daycare and I'm talking about a piece of card with some mark on the front - not a lot of effort really - takes pride of place on the mantlepiece.
Dh's parents are slightly different. A few years ago for xmas the boys painted mugs. they were actually pretty cool. In-laws (who i get on relatively well with), didn't even say thank you. For mothers day they made pen holders and MIL didn't take it when hse went to AUs (permanently) and I later found it in the rubbish. But then they moan about not having a close relationship withthe kids.....grrrr
I agree with the baking thing i have done this several times and it always is appreciated., i have a really easy recipe for white chocolate truffles if anyone wants it.
Plant gifts are good too and if you want to save yourself some money on these go and buy a packet of seed or 2 and grow the plants yourself there is still time they just might not be flowering. Or you could make up a book of little vouchers and include things in them like babysitiing, housework etc.
You could always donate some money to charity like oxfam and but them a goat for xmas in their name as well there is a huge price range of these things avaliable on the net.
The best present I have ever recieved was from my best friend for my birthday. I love cooking so she got a recipe binder and in it put recipies from all the different countries that I had travelled to (was living in Uk so had done lots of travel), They were all typed out in the same format and had flags of the relevant countries. I thought it was an amazingly thoughtful gift and only took her time rather than money.
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I bought The Australian Womans Weekly mag yesterday (with Trelise Cooper on the cover) and there is some good christmas recipes in there too for baking cakes, puddings etc
I just bought some choc moulds off TM to start my choc making for pressies
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