I need Holiday Help!!!

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I need Holiday Help!!!

Posted: 12/21/05 at 4:11pm

Okay, Here's the deal. I have folks at work giving me gifts left & right now, even though we had (supposedly!) agreed on doing a "round robin" and drawing names to get a gift for since everyone is not RICH this year. Now, I'm gonna feel awful to those giving to me if I don't get them SOMETHING and, the person who's name I drew I don't even know (It is a woman I haven't even met yet!) also - I do not have a lot of extra cash right now to spend so - anyone have any thoughts or suggestions to help me out of this prob? The Hols are heading toward me at 125 miles an hour and I feel stuck. Thanks for any imput and Happy Hols to You & Yours!

"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." - Elizabeth Taylor

re: I need Holiday Help!!!

Posted: 12/21/05 at 4:16pm

I recently went through this at work. Here are some ideas for stuff that doesn't cost a alot:

-a holiday-ish scented candle
-a gift card to Starbucks
-a package of nice notecards/stationery
-cookies
-some body lotion type gift set thing (look at TJ Maxx/Marshalls - these things are marked down all the time and some of them are really nice)
-if they celebrate Christmas - then some little ornaments in a box.
-a coffee mug with a single pack of flavored coffee and a biscotti all wrapped up in it pretty-like.
-a picture frame

re: I need Holiday Help!!!

Posted: 12/21/05 at 4:48pm

Best thing I've found to do is make people food. Fudge is the best, and cookies, etc. Cheap, easy, and fun.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

re: I need Holiday Help!!!

Posted: 12/21/05 at 5:05pm

I ended up giving my co-workers little bundles - in each bundle was a holiday CD of my favorite Christmas music that I burned - a martini glass (My standard personal drink) and an ornament in each glass all wrapped up in colored celophane. Now - they did not cost a lot to do - but EVERYONE is loving the CD - if you are on a budget, that could be a great way to go.

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re: I need Holiday Help!!!

Posted: 12/21/05 at 5:22pm

A hand painted glass ornament
Votive candle in a a nice holder
Note cards (a must have for moms & dads with kids in school)
A winyery mug w/ a box of tea bags or cocoa
and since it is me COOKIES!!!!

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

re: I need Holiday Help!!!

Posted: 12/21/05 at 7:37pm

Peach- I love the Starbucks gift card idea! Who doesn't love Starbucks?

Am I cut out to spend my time this way?

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