Keeping an eye open year 'round for inexpensive stocking stuffers is a good way to cut costs, but if you haven't done that? The next best things to do:
- Handmade bookmarks (crocheted, needlepoint, rubber stamped, cut from tissue boxes!)
- A small, hand made notepad. Cut blank pages and "stitch" with an old, empty needle on your sewing machine a half inch from the top to make perforated lines. Staple the pages together above the perforation.
- Small containers of home made bath salts
- Knitted or crocheted cotton wash cloth
- Handwritten poem or note
- Personal "Gift Certificate" good for whatever you can do - shovel snow, bake bread, watch the kids...
- Food! Home made is best, but packaged soup mixes or specialty pasta is good, too.
- One special cookie, wrapped and tied with a bow
- Print out stationary, recipe cards or grocery lists from the internet or your own design
- Samples of fragrances, soaps, lotions, etc.
- Special family recipe, hand written or typed.
