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Last year my sister made me a basket of breakfast treat mixes. They were in mason jars and packaged really pretty, flavored pancake mix, tea, muffin mix, latte, etc. It was AWESOME! I saw her pinning another thing like it recently and called her out on it hoping it was for this years gift and it was, so I'm super excited. It makes it really easy to make a yummy breakfast

Something I've done that's gone over well is a cookbook. I'll do a theme (this year I'm doing camping/outdoors) and either find new recipes or use recipes that we use and love and put in pictures of us camping throughout the book. I know my SIL loved it last year because I did a holiday themed one and she copied me and made one for her mom full of Christmas cookies that they make every year.

@BabyBoecksMom: More like thrifty

I also do homemade cards which my parents love. I never buy my dad a gift anymore, I always make him cards and he always gives them to people, he never has to buy cards anymore.

And in a thread I wrote awhile ago about my extreme cheapskateness I mentioned that in a camping themed gift I made homemade fire starters out of toilet paper rolls, lint, brown paper, and twine. That gift hasn't been given yet so I'm wondering how that will go over

I also made an ornament for my SIL, it looked like a onesie and said her LO's name and 1'st Christmas 2012.

And my new thing is making tutu's so I made her daughter a blue and white chanukah tutu.

Our extended family stopped doing gift exchanged a few years ago because they couldn't afford it, but my mom, sister and I still make cookie baskets every year for all the families. We get together one afternoon and bake all kinds of cookies, wrap them up really pretty and there you go! Easy, cheap and yummy!