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Homemade Crafts & Gifts
by BetterBudgeting.com Readers
We've given you lots of great ideas over the years for thoughtful and inexpensive gifts you can make for holidays and special occasions, now we'd like to hear from you!
If you have a great gift idea for Graduates that you'd like to share with us, please send us your favorite and we'll add it to this page!
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Readers' Favorite Frugal Gifts for Graduates: Phone Cards "Prepaid phone cards are a good gift to take to college!" - Gary K. Address Books "Graduates will appreciate a new address book filled with notes from friends and family, it's just too easy to lose track of everyone after you move away from home!" - Michelle Leaving Campus and Going to Work "This isn't homemade, but it is a great idea for graduates. I recently received Leaving Campus and Going to Work as a graduation/new job gift. It gives great guidance on how I can move from college to my new job. The sections on finances, benefits, mentors and secret rules were things that I didn't know about before reading the book. I don't think it was terribly expensive, but it definitely caused me to re-think my ideas about what I could buy with my new paycheck." - Erin Gas "How about a gas card? Since gas is so expensive." - Cindy Graduation Mug "My husband and I just celebrated our daughter's college graduation. Besides the welcome check we gave her in private we also came up with a fun little extra. I found a large sized graduation mug, filled with approximately 2 dozen "coin" chocolates and 2 million dollar fake bills. The colorful fill was thrown in free from the store, also matched her school colors. On the bottom I attached a new deck of money playing cards found at the dollar store. Used poster putty to hold in place. The plastic bag that store put items in were also daughter's school colors. Finished decorating by using left over sticky stamps. I've used this idea for many gifts using the appropriate theme. Enjoy!" - J. Jackson Basket of Encouragement "I recently made up 2 baskets of little things like... thank you notes, picture frame, post it notes, book thong (beaded book marker), mug with 4 homemade coasters, mints, book pertaining to grads or Bible quotes, and lastly, a note encouraging the grad to Hang in There!" - Jessica L. Bath Tote "Most kids in college dorms
share bathrooms and so a handy mesh tote with some shower shoes and assorted
bath products is in inexpensive, practical and useful gift." - The
Muhlenbeck
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