12 Thoughtful Christmas Gifts That Are Better Than “Expensive” Ones
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It’s the same story every Christmas, isn’t it? Without fail, the same expensive “big ticket” items top seemingly everyone’s wish list. Whether it’s expensive jewelry, new cars or the latest video game system, each Christmas is inseparably linked with the hot gifts everybody wants that year. And sure, dropping big bucks on these items is a pretty sure-fire way of pleasing the people on your Christmas list. But what about originality? Believe it or not, you can put a smile on someone’s face this Christmas without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars - and without the same impersonal, cookie-cutter gifts everyone else is obsessing over. Here are 12 thoughtful Christmas gifts that show you did more than swipe a credit card. Image Source
It’s a cliche, but sometimes the most warmly appreciated gifts are those that come from the heart. And few gifts are more heartfelt and personal than a lovingly constructed scrapbook. Whether the intended recipient is a spouse, child or friend, a scrapbook filled with your most cherished shared memories is sure to elicit smiles and appreciation for years to come. Fill it with anything significant that the two of you have shared: pictures, movie stubs, vacation tickets and souvenirs, bumper stickers, inside jokes, and anything else that captures your unique relationship with that person. The result will be a treasured keepsake your recipient enjoys forever.
Collages
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A great supplement or replacement for a scrapbook is a collage. Think of it as a scrapbook of just pictures. Begin with a large canvas (poster board works great) and a shoebox of pictures. Then, try to arrange them on the canvas in some symbolic or meaningful way. For example, if the recipient is your boyfriend or girlfriend, consider arranging photos of the two of you from different periods of time - say, beginning from when you met and ending with the pictures most recently taken. Much like a scrapbook, a well-done collage is more meaningful than any store-bought item because it is literally a tribute to one or two unique people. ScrapBooks.com and similar websites offer great deals on starter supplies for any scrapbook you choose to create.
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I lay watching in content as the light cast a rainbow across against the dreary crème wallpaper, it was a kaleidoscope, twirling and spiraling down towards unsightly probably once white, but now stained muddy tinged carpet. Its beauty entranced me; I identified a very striking purple colour that resembled amethysts and watery emerald, it was pretty, very pretty actually, it reminded me of the colour of my mother’s eyes. Her eyes were gone though, rotting away in her skull as she decomposed… I shocked by my heinous thought that turned a beautiful light reflection into a disturbing mental pictures of my mother’s bones slowly transforming into dust, her skin turning leathery, like a mummy. I gave myself a dirty look and through off the nave duvet. I had to distract myself in an attempt to halt gruesome thoughts of my mother’s body and her untimely demise. Her demise. It was shocking and sudden, well sudden for me I was to naïve to see her suffering, her unclean thoughts of ways to kill her working away in her mind. It was because of him, his violent attacks against me and my mother, if she had never met Patrick. She wouldn’t have committed suicide, in our old flats bathroom. She wouldn’t have bled to death whilst strewn across the linoleum shivering, the colour a whiter shade of pale.
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