Cheap Christmas gifts

[Funko]

Sod it, joining the Xmas bandwagon!

Single parent, single wage!
Put waaaaayyy too much on credit card last year that I'll still be paying until death probably 😄

Apart from my DS who will have the bulk of my Xmas spends on him. Have lots of people family etc to buy for.

I want to be cheap as possible but not crappy.

I also manage a team and I always get them a little gift each. For this year I thought of a little 'goody' bag each. I can buy those individual face masks in packs of 6 that I can throw in. Was thinking a scented candle and other mini things.

I also thought I could do the same for extended family. Any ideas? Anything good and cheap I can buy many of to split between bags?

Bit different from the usual boring smelly gift set etc.

Yankee do a Christmas sampler box (in asda here) for £6, 6 mini Christmas candles. I've got that, miniature bottle of wine / fizz (one glass size) and box of green &blacks miniature choc bars (10 in a box, often on 3 boxes for £10 at Christmas) which I've divided up between cellophane bags for teachers gifts previously (when dc1&2 were in infants and had 80 gazillion teaching assistants as well as teacher per class )

Do your team love stationery? (I work in teaching, and it is like crack to us guys).
If so, Poundland do surprisingly pretty notebooks and diaries, which I have often gone for for my team.
Also Wilkos do some fun stationery - little packs of really pretty mini gel-pens, for example, for about a pound.
While the target audience is probably 13 year olds or similar, I and my colleagues bloody love this sort of stuff!

Moll - your cake sounds lovely for a team treat. Would you mind sharing the recipe?

You lot are ace!!
Yes I am a good manager but also now a skint one 😂

How about a pannetonne from lidl for each member of team? They look so pretty in their boxes and very christmassy

Or get a beauty advent calendar (eg. M&s one, £25 last year) for the team, they take in turns opening it. Could be fun.