Last minute thrifty Christmas gift ideas

Tight budget, lots of friends and Christmas around the corner? Sounds like Mission Impossible.

Gift giving should be fun and not so stressful so here are a few ideas for last minuet, inexpensive thoughtful gift ideas to give to friends.

1. Affirmation Mirror- You will need a $1 store Mirror, stencils, stickers or magic markers and ribbon to match mirror. Choose a word you want the recipient to see daily when they look in the mirror. Then use the stickers, or use stencils with your magic markers and write the words you have chosen. Then tie the matching mirror and Walah! Cute, thoughtful idea that will make someone feel good every time they look in it. Words you can use for mirror are:

• Kind
• Strong
• Beautiful
• Lookin Good
• You look might fine
• Lookin Sharp
• You're worth it
• You can do it
• Awesomeness

2. Mix CD- Pick some songs that have a personal meaning for both of you. They can be funny, sentimental or just plain fun. On the Cd cover put a picture of you and your friend and on the inside cover of your cd write a little something for each song telling why you chose it

3. Buy your friends favorite soda or candy bar and make a treasure hunt with little clues leading to where they can find it.

4. Make a dream catcher

5.Make Duct tape bows. Check out tipjunkie for how to make duct tape bows.
6. Make a paperbag album such as this
See how to make this cute album here. A different version of this could be to decorate a spiral  notebook cover.

7. A funny gag type gift could be some Christmas poops. It's candy with a fun little poem explaining what your baggie is. This is soooo  hilariaous. Check out the Santa poop. This is my favorite. Click here for the poems and candy to use.
8. How about at the $1 store you can buy a cute mug and fill it with your friends favorite candies and tie a cute ribbon with a nice little note.

9. Crazy socks. Wouldn't that be fun to give your friend some totally strange and crazy socks?

10. Make a mustache pillow case. Buy a pillow case from the store and then download a picture of a funny mustache, blow the picture up, cut it out and trace it on the pillowcase. Then use markers or paints and color it in. Then you have a cute mustache pillow.

Hope a few of these suggestions help. How about you, do you have any great ideas to share???