Frugal Gifts
5 Unique and Personal Mother’s Day Ideas
As an empty nester, there’s nothing I like better than when my two kids come home to visit. Their time is the greatest gift they could ever give me and anything else they may want to offer me is like chocolate syrup drizzled over chocolate layer cake, unnecessary but delightful.
Most mothers crave thoughtful gestures rather than grand ones. Here are three ideas from the dollar store that are very inexpensive to put together using items from the dollar store. Here’s a guide for putting together 3 unique and personal Mother’s Day gifts for your mom or grandmother.
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This domed lantern is about 6-inches high and comes in bright summer colours as well as this creamy white. Team it up with a sleeve of eight scented tea lights in a pretty gift bag for a gift that is sure to delight a mom or grandmother.
How about making a leisure gift basket for the mom who enjoys relaxing in the backyard? Start with an interesting container like this small party bucket and add an assortment of the kinds of things you know your mom would enjoy. Here, we’ve included a pair of flip flops, sunglasses, two word puzzle books, an acrylic wine glass, and a small bottle of Perrier. Then add a couple of decorative items but useful items. This gift basket contains a Terra Cotta wall clock and a small outdoor lantern.
You might also want to include some citronella tea lights to help keep Mom from being bugged while outdoors. Pack a container with some things you know your mom will love.
If Mom or Grandmother enjoys nothing better than puttering about in her garden, this next idea could be just the thing to make her day. We filled this gardening pouch with a pair of gardening gloves, some markable garden stakes, a pair of flower scissors, which incidentally, are also good for crafts, a pretty floral-patterned garden trowel and three packets of flower seeds. Naturally, you will want to customize this gift to suit the needs or wants of the lady gardener it’s intended for.
For another gardening gift option, consider this option containing a pretty patterned trowel, three packets of flower seeds, a pair of gardening gloves and some hand cream packed into a small metal watering can.
Hard-working mothers always welcome spa gifts. We started with a stone-look pot that can be reused for plants later, and filled it with an assortment of pampering gifts. When you use two or more bath and body items by the same manufacturer this helps to give your present a store-bought look.
This gift contains shower gel and body lotion, a four-sided pedicure paddle, a soap-shaped candle and a small massager. The pedicure paddle has a buffer brush and a pumice stone on one end and a metal file and smooth file on the other. The massager uses 3 AAA batteries that are not included but you can add those separately, if you wish.
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