Gifts suitable for everyone

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I usually put loads of thought into buying people’s gifts but last year after spending a fortune I realised that no one else in my family bothers to put in much thought. Most just buy chocolates or smellies (which I can’t use as I have bad skin).

This year money is tight so I’m looking to buy everyone the same (or similar gift) to save my sanity and money.

So what can I buy that everyone will like/use?

£5-£10 budget

Amazon voucher

Mug + choccies/ posh biccies xx

Amazon voucher probably ok for a few of them, some don’t shop online (older).

I thought no consumables are the way to go. Would it be wrong to buy boxes of celebrations and maybe some posher chocolates for closer family? Wine and beer maybe doable too.

you could perhaps get something like this: www.yumbles.com/ooh-and-aah/personalised-cookie-card.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7uL59-ac3QIVaLHtCh3fEg8eEAQYAiABEgJ6EPD_BwE which is a personalised biscuit, saying merry christmas (name). it would look like you have put thought into it, but it is cost friendly and can be done for everyone :)

Family board game?

I don’t know what ages you need them for but check out this link. Their summer sale has some cute homeware items. I ordered some stuff and it took a while but it’s really good quality.
www.magpieline.com/shop/summer-sale-18/

Or if you’ve got teenage girls to buy for try revolution makeup website as they’ve got a good sale on atm too

I like the personalised biscuits.

Board games are tricky as 2 of the families have very young children (babies).

2 young families (kids under 5)
Young single mum and baby
Mum and step dad
Dad and partner
Grandmother
22 year old step son
13 year old boy
13 year old girl (not into make up)
9 year old boy

Would love to just spend £5 on most of them apart from my parents.

We try to get away with prosecco and biscuits/pannetone for as many people as possible 😂 usually there’s a 25% off 6+ bottles deal so it’s not bad!

Following with interest.

can you do one of those mason jar things - look on pinterest (or collect jam jars) like grown up jolly jam jars

fill them up with sweets that you know they like
cookie ingredients
hot chocolate stuff (layer of chocolate, marshmallows)

nahthen that’s what I was hoping for, maybe a discount for buying in bulk 🤣

Men are normally happy with whatever you get them, or are not bothered in general anyway

Nice olive oil would do for everyone apart from the kids
Prosecco or similar
Chocs for children or Book token?

I am tempted to buy everybody something from one of the environmentally friendly companies this year. So, stuff like shampoo bars, beeswax wraps etc. Hoping that it will be something they may continue to use but wouldn't have thought to buy.

Are they all family? Do you all get together at Xmas? Could you do a secret Santa thing so you only buy one present for each other and something that they want and spend a bit more? Between 4 siblings and partners that's what we did last year and it was great we also do one present for each child from the cousins. With 11 it brings down the cost consinderably!

I bought everyone fancy bamboo socks one year. So well received that several people asked for them every year since.

For the teens, a £5 coffee shop voucher would go down well.
I like consumables and useful things, I hate 'gift' gifts as they are usually tat.

They are all family but not from the same side (I am divorced but still in contact with step children) so won’t be altogether at Christmas.

I prefer consumables too, at least they get used up (and if I can’t eat them all I will donate to food banks).

Men are pretty simple, my brother, step son and step dad would be happy with a few fancy bottles of beer. All the kids in the family have loads of toys so I don’t want to add to the piles of plastic. Something usable or environmentally friendly would be great. Love the socks idea too.

Could you pick a shop and just get everyone something from one shop? eg a bookshop would be likely to have kids books, posh notebooks, coffee table books, vouchers, possibly toys and board games and calendars. It would look like you made an effort but you could get the lot in one swoop.
the book people website is the online equivalent. You could split this ten pack of Julia Donaldson books between the under 5s which would be well below budget. There are gifts, stationery, adult coloring books, calendars. And SEP40 gives £5 off £40 although if you hang on a bit you might get a better deal than that.

Doesn’t have to be books obviously. You could get novelty socks for all ages in Primark. Or use the Boots 3-4-2 gift sets (although that would probably still be more than £5 each.)

I haven’t costed this but .... you could get a pack of icing bags (poundland) and fill them with hot choc powder, and mini marshmallows, and put them in a poundshop mug with a candy cane and some chocolates and biscuits and a bit of scrunched up shredded paper. Buying in bulk and splitting it between all the adults and teens should work out fairly cost effective,

Alan I like the idea of mugs filled with goodies, not sure what the equivalent could be for young children/babies? Would be great if I could just buy all gifts from the same shop to save hours of looking for gifts and visiting many shops.

Are you any good at baking OP? You could make up several batches of cookie dough (look for recipes where you roll it up into a sausage shape and slice into rounds) and stick it it in the freezer. In the meantime, look out for some really interesting boxes or tins to present them in and some original wrapping ideas.

Day before you see them, get the cookie dough sausage out of the freezer, slice, bake (you can cook from frozen), present attractively and voila.

Should work for all the grown ups. Substitute Wilkos pick and mix for the children, but still in attractive wrapping.

If you were filling cups. You could do children's a plastic cup with sweets/chocolates. And for babies a tommee tippee cup with rusk biscuits/organix bars from baby food aisle.

Or maybe a movie box. Popcorn box with a pack of microwave popcorn, dvd, sweet cones/bag of chocolates. Could probably get all of that from the pound shop. Supermarkets/Amazon are pretty cheap for dvds.

Or bath bits - could wrap up a bath bomb with a novelty rubber duck. EBay or Amazon are good and pretty reasonable. Could match the duck to personality/likes.

A movie box could work for a couple of them (as a family gift), sounds like a great idea.

I got these treasure hunts for several people last year and they all loved them. I don't think they were just saying it :/

www.treasuretrails.co.uk

They are about in budget and if you wanted you could add hand warmers/coffee and flask etc