Cheap Mother's Day Gift Ideas

Well, Mother's Day is just around the corner.  It's time to get thinking about gift ideas.  I know that Mother's Day can be costly especially if you have several mothers and grandmothers to buy for.  Try to remember that it isn't what you spend that matters.  I always try to make sure the gift is going to match their personality and be something useful to them, instead of worrying about how much I am spending. 

GIFT IDEAS

1.  A garden gift basket  I have done these buy picking up a flower pot, adding some packages of flower seeds, some garden gloves, and gardening tools. Then I cover the whole pot in clear gift basket wrap and add a homemade name tag with curly ribbon.  These always look so beautiful.  If you go to the dollar store, you can do the whole thing for around $5.00 for a nice one.

2.  You can pick up a couple of flats of flowers at your local greenhouse and some pots at the dollar store, along with potting soil.  Then transplant the flowers into the pots.

3.  Make some homemade truffles and give those.  Find a recipe for them on an online recipe site.   You can put these in just a sandwich bag ( not a ziplock) and add the gift tag and ribbon at the top. 

4.  Make a candy arrangement in a coffee cup.  This is very simple!  First, buy a coffee cup from the dollar store.  Second, add some M&M's in the cup.  Third, cut out some flower petals from construction paper or even regular paper that you have colored. .  Fourth, Poke a toothpick ( one of those sturdy ones, the cheap ones won't work) through the center of the construction paper flower, add a hershey kiss buy poking the toothpick into it but not all the way through.  Then, wrap a pipe cleaner around the other end of the toothpick several times.  Next, wrap the pipe cleaner around a craft stick, to make a stem, and stick into the cup full of M&M's.  You can add some store bought truffles buy just poking the toothpick directly into them and then repeating the pipe cleaner, craft stick stem.   Keep making and adding until the cup is full.  It doesn't take a lot, you should be able to do about 3 cups with a few bags of candy.  Make sure you have enough M&M's though.  It takes alot to hold everything in the cup.

5.  Walmart has medium sized boxes of Russel Stover Chocolates for 3.00.  The flavors I saw were, cherry cordial, coconut clusters, and carmels. I am sure the variety varies for each store.  But this is a pretty cheap gift that looks like something.

6.  Send them an invitation for a meal at your house.  Then, make the meal really special bringing out the best dishes, tablecloth, and serving something very nice.

7. Make a homemade card telling them exactly how you feel about them.  The store bought cards are nice, but a personal touch is always better. 

8.  Give them a coupon for a job you will do for them, that they need help with or hate doing.  Put it in a card.
This is a site that has some really beautiful unique cards.
http://www.zazzle.com/mainewildsensations/mother+day+greeting+cards