5 Easy Dollar Store Neighbor Gift Ideas

When Christmas approaches the thing that stresses me out the most when Christmas shopping is neighbor gifts. I want to give my neighbors something nice but not spend a ton of money. I usually plan on getting 15-20 neighbor gifts.
When looking for neighbor gifts I want gifts that are:

• practical
• inexpensive
• easy
• a little bit unique

This year I wanted to keep it simple, get it done early, and I wanted to share a few ideas with you. When I was done shopping I realized that almost all of the gifts I purchased fell into a 'cleaning' theme.

Gift #1: Dish soap and a scrub brush (cost $2) The tag says: Let our family help your family do the dishes this busy holiday season. Merry Christmas.

Gift #2: Dishwasher tabs (cost $1) The tag says: Let our family help your family do the dishes this busy holiday season. Merry Christmas.

 

 Gift #3: Paper plates and cups (cost: close to $1) The tag says: Let our family help your family do the dishes this busy holiday season. Merry Christmas.

 

 Gift #4:All purpose cleaner (cost $1) The tag says: Let our family help your family do the cleaning this busy holiday season. Merry Christmas.

Gift #5: This gift is a little more expensive than the others. I paid about $6 for this entire gift. I created a gift basket for a snow day.  The basket includes: two mugs, a bottle of flavored syrup, a card game, a few packages of hot chocolate, and a soft dish towel. The tag reads: Snow Day Kit. Merry Christmas.

Do you worry about what to give your friends and neighbors? I'd love to hear about your favorite gift ideas!
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Thanksgiving Projects

Thank you for being patient as I took last week off of "Lets Talk Tuesday" to spend some time with my family that was here for the Thanksgiving holiday. We had a wonderful (and BUSY) week. I was reminded why Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, it's all about family and food. I LOVE it!

Today, I thought I'd share some of my favorite Thanksgiving projects with you. This album I did for Bella Blvd and Paper Issues. It's one of my very favorite mini albums. It was a lot of work and a lot to keep up with during November but as I look back through the album I realized how much it captured about our life at that time. You can find the full post about this album HERE.

When I created this layout for Bella Blvd I was worried about how it would turn out. The design was a little bit different than my usual style and the photo was less than stellar. In years past I didn't take as many photos. (I remedied that situation this year, with 2 Thanksgiving dinners and having a week with all the cousins here I took about 200 photos.) I won't be searching for Thanksgiving photos anymore!

I used a lot of the * Bella Blvd Thankful Collection. (One of my all time favorite collections, uh, it is a Thanksgiving themed collection, of course I'm going to LOVE it).

The next project is using a newer collection by Bella Blvd the * Hello Autumn Collection. It's another awesome collection. It's not entirely Thanksgiving themed but it has a lot of Thanksgiving themed elements.

We have a tradition in our little family (doing it two years in a row classifies it as "tradition", right?) of taking a few family photos on the front step as we walk out the door to go to Thanksgiving dinner with our families. This last project showcases a few of the photos we took on our front step.

 

 I'm sure that you're an awesome photo taker and that you'd never forget to take photos of Thanksgiving events. Is there a time you've forgotten to take photos that you regret?
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