To ask if you can help me ????

[caroline161]

I need your brains. I work at a hospital and have to come up with an idea for a really thrifty Christmas present for 55 really special people by the end of this week! Money is tight so looking at a budget of 30-50 p each!! :-( In previous years we have bought a lindt chocolate, tea lights in an organza bag, a wooden Christmas tree decoration and last year I made them all fudge! We've really run out of ideas. Please could anyone let me know of any bargains they have seen or ideas they have had. Thanks all for your help. Xx

Pick and mix sweets? You could buy lots of bags of different sweets and mix them up and put them in organza favour gift bags?

Depending how much effort you want to put in...homemade lip balm? Have a look on lucybee website for recipe

Salt scrub - salt, sunflower oil & a few drops of essential oil. Home bargains have cheap jars & ribbon to make it special x

Tesco had some decent size chocolate reindeer for 50p each last week. Not Linda, obviously but would look nice with some gift ribbon

Buy big packs of cinnamon sticks, pine cones and dried orange slices from eBay, dab some scented oil ( also eBay) and pack in organza bags ? = potpourri

Something completely different:

Download some free Christmas carol audio tracks
www.thebalance.com/free-christmas-music-downloads-1356284
and record them onto blank CDs
www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/recordable-blank-cds

If you don't have a CD burner, ask a friendly IT nerd (stress it's completely legal).
Really cheap! And useful.

Sweet bag cones filled with hot chocolate and topped marshmallows

I have turned my house literally upside down.

In that case they probably fell out of the chimney!

(Just ignore me, I'm a pedant) :)
I do hope you find them.

Sorry, wrong thread!