Using What I've Got
After my ECFE/Daycare Teachers Christmas Gift Poll, I decided to just do gifts for the Daycare providers, and skip ECFE (since there's like 8 of them and we only see them once a week).
But...my budget is tight this year. I'm trying to be more frugal, to stash more cash in the bank, to prepare for the long, cold, dark winter ahead (and the non-productive potentially income-deficient maternity leave in my future). So instead of going out and buying some tchotke or baking something (which they probably get a TON of) I made some card packs.
I made each of the 4 teachers a 5-pack of Thank You cards. I figure I ALWAYS need thank you cards after the holidays, and they probably do too (good lord, I hope there are still other people out there who send thank you cards).
I included 5 envelopes & 5 stamps as well, and I packaged them in cello bags.
This is the best part: I didn't buy a thing (save for the stamps). I used card stock & decorative paper that I've had for YEARS. I used embellishments that I've been hoarding which I received as gifts for several past birthdays & Christmases. I bought the cello bags probably 8 years ago and haven't gotten around to using very many of them. I used stamps that I've used for Christmas cards & other cards in the past and voila! 4 Christmas gifts that cost me (immediate out of pocket anyway) the price of one book of stamps.
I even packaged them in gift bags that I made two years ago during the great bean soup holiday giveway.
I feel really good when I can use what I already have...a lesson for life, perhaps?
But...my budget is tight this year. I'm trying to be more frugal, to stash more cash in the bank, to prepare for the long, cold, dark winter ahead (and the non-productive potentially income-deficient maternity leave in my future). So instead of going out and buying some tchotke or baking something (which they probably get a TON of) I made some card packs.
I made each of the 4 teachers a 5-pack of Thank You cards. I figure I ALWAYS need thank you cards after the holidays, and they probably do too (good lord, I hope there are still other people out there who send thank you cards).
I included 5 envelopes & 5 stamps as well, and I packaged them in cello bags.
This is the best part: I didn't buy a thing (save for the stamps). I used card stock & decorative paper that I've had for YEARS. I used embellishments that I've been hoarding which I received as gifts for several past birthdays & Christmases. I bought the cello bags probably 8 years ago and haven't gotten around to using very many of them. I used stamps that I've used for Christmas cards & other cards in the past and voila! 4 Christmas gifts that cost me (immediate out of pocket anyway) the price of one book of stamps.
I even packaged them in gift bags that I made two years ago during the great bean soup holiday giveway.
I feel really good when I can use what I already have...a lesson for life, perhaps?
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