HELP - Family gifts for aunts and cousins

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We have a few families we buy for - think aunts and uncles in 40s/50s and cousins, some with teenage children living at home.

We sometimes buy individual gifts but I want to spend less this year. What can we buy as "family" gifts other than chocolates, biscuits / sweets. Budget is £10-20 per family.

Ideas other than edible things were a nice candle, diffuser, family calendar, fun house gadgets (not that I can think of any)...

I buy separately for the nieces and nephews / under 18s.

A board game. Or a big jigsaw.
A mug each, with hot chocolate sachets, squirt cream, marshmallows and those chocolate spoons that melt when you stir the drink.
A lemon or lime tree, if they have a conservatory or warm place to keep it. Otherwise, a plant for the garden.
Bird table and some food.
Bird bath.
Backgammon set.

Cheese board and wine with nice crackers chutneys?

They are not board games and jigsaw people

A nice mug each might be expensive but I will look into that

I like the idea of a nice plan for free

Cheeseboard and wine sounds good too as an alternative to sweet things for the ones who drink

Amazon voucher for film download, popcorn, sweets and popcorn holders.

Who are they? How long do you intend on buying for them?

There is very little you can buy an adult family for £10 and would be better off just saying no gifts for adults

You can get Netflix gift cards for £15. Add some snacks to being into £20 total?

In previous years Asda have done some lovely - and bargainous - Christmas mugs that I’ve bought as presents and combined with a mug cake recipe book. I did it for my cousins who were all students at the time so they were all able to have a different mug (think there was Santa, snowman, elf, rudolf etc) so they knew which was their mug if they were home together but gave them each a book (The Works had some lovely ones on offer which amazon was selling for £25 and they had for £3). They took them back to uni, had mug cake parties, and a couple of them even said that they had been so impressed they’d used the idea to give the same sort of thing to their friends at birthdays and Christmas afterwards.

You could get jolly (but inexpensive) mugs, a mug cake book per family, a few bits to go into mug cakes (see if any re pies stand out, assume they will have the basics sugar/flour/eggs/etc but put in a choc chips, nuts, mini marshmallows, sporty cream, etc plus add a pack of nice drinking chocolate and a pack of the marshmallow disc drink toppers (Amazon, B&M, Home Bargains, about a pound a box) so they can make cakes and hot chocolate and the mugs don’t need to match their taste/kitchen perfectly but just come out to be jolly at Christmas.

That budget for a family is going to be difficult, Especially as you have ruled biscuits, sweets, games, puzzles etc out
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Look at Etsy maybe for stocking type of gifts maybe?

Scratch cards?

Scarf
Naice box of chocolates/wine
Hellebore or other 'Christmas plant' in a lovely pot

www.museumselection.co.uk/gifts-for-her/?price=5%2D15
Perhaps you find something nice here?

Primark / Scarf. Gloves. Hand warmers

I was relieved when my husband's huge family stopped doing this. Last thing anyone needs is novelty mugs or similiar. Just make a batch of fudge or jam or something if you really feel you need to give them something, or better yet just stop doing it.

Bed throw. Wilko do nice ones.

Champagne/ alcohol/ cheese board/ baked cake/ Xmas cupcakes/ cinema voucher to permit the whole family/ day out/ hamper with food and home stuff.
Your budget is pretty small tbh

Wine or chocolates is fine; cheeses if the budget runs to £20 but you won't get anything nice for £10. Honestly, I'd just send a Christmas card. Nobody wants cheap novelty mugs! All those £10-20s would add up to buy something nice for yourself. Spread thinly around extended family, they'll only buy tat that won't even sell when it's donated to the charity shop. They'll be so relieved if you stop doing it.

A really nice hand wash and hand cream set - like from Molton Brown

You might find some ideas on the poncetastic thread or the Christmas bargains thread. Maybe something like these spicery cooking sets that have been mentioned.

I think if you buy separately for the nephews and nieces Op, I wouldn’t feel obliged to make it a family present. Then you could tailor it a bit to the couple’s tastes. My sympathies, I remember my Mum agonising annually. She was so glad when all the relatives agreed to stop and just send a card.

I said £10-20 as I would stretch to £20. I have previously spent more but I don't want to spend a lot per household plus children.

I have precious bought sweets, chocolates, biscuits, candle, hand creams, nail polish, a few things probably aldi d £30.

Maybe I am best off giving a box of nice chocolates or biscuits with a card unless I go for chessboard or mugs and hot chocolate and cake instead.

Hand wash and hand cream set is a good idea. I forgot I had looked loccitane liquid hand soaps.

Is there any reason you won't stop? If you really must buy for them I'd go with something edible. Nobody wants mugs and it's such a waste.

Bar of chocolate and a scratchcard per person would suffice but I wouldn't thank anyone for sending 4 mugs to my house

Are there any small businesses near you doing nice things? A lot of Christmas fairs are cancelled so they are on local Facebook pages? For example I'm selling personalised hanging gingerbread biscuits that would be in that price range so there might be something similar near you?

That is cheese board not chess board.

I think I would just buy some nice biscuits or chocolates and that's it or go for the loccitane hand wash and some chocolates.

I want to give something even if it's something sweet to eat. It's just something my family does and they would continue giving me at least biscuits and chocolate with my Christmas card even if I didn't do it

A bowl of bulbs planted and waiting for spring.

I couldn't be doing with that. We buy for the kids in each family. Nobody needs anything else, at one point we were all swapping vouchers which just seemed utterly pointless.

In normal times we do a secret santa for everyone who will be eating together on xmas day, 1 present per person, £50 limit so everyone gets a decent present and we open them before we eat.

So much less stress.

In Homesense you could get a nice pasta bowl, posh pasta & something else foody for £10-20

I've bought a lovely Tapas/dip tray with ceramic pots and a nice jar of tapenade for around £10 from there.

They also do nice glasses in there which are bargainous which you could put wine and cheese with perhaps?

Try Whittard for nice tea & mugs?