#Blogmas Day 4

Today's post is Christmas Gift Ideas!

Usually I will just ask my family and friends what they want and just get them it but last year I had a bit more money to play around with and decided to do something different for certain family members - My Mum, my Nanna and Brothers.

Mum:
I know my Mum well, she is literally my best friend and I decided to do her a basket of her favourite things and some cute little gifts. It included:

• A jar of her favourite coffee
• Her favourite chocolate
• A tin of shortbread
• A Pandora Charm - a little thing going between us both, we both have a bracelet which we get each other a charm for things like Birthday's and Christmas
• A little angel ornament for the garden - she is obsessed with garden ornaments
• Red nail varnish - her favourite colour
• A gift voucher for a massage at her favourite salon
• A Christmas themed nail set
• A Christmas vanilla snowman lip balm - which is more exciting that it sounds
• Some fluffy socks

She loved it, it was basically like a stocking for her with some bigger presents and she said she loved seeing the thought and effort I'd put into it.

Nanna:
My Nanna is really hard to buy for every year so I did her a basket too. Hers included:

• The special face cream she uses
• Bubble Bath
• Candles
• Cath Kidston Baking set - she loves baking
• A voucher to get her hair done
• A tea set - a mug and teabags which came in a nice gift box
• Her favourite perfume

Again, she loved it but she did tell me off for spending more than £10 on her, oops!

Big Brother:
I never seem to buy my big brother anything much especially as I don't see him that much anymore so he got a box as well:

• Pack of Shots
• A drinking game
• Socks
• A hugeeeeee mug
• A hot chocolate cone set
• A bottle of vodka
• His favourite chocolate

I got a grunt and a thank you from him but my Mum told me he was asking where I got the idea from so mission accomplished.

Little Brother:
He was at the awkward stage of being in between ages of too old for toys but too young for anything majorly exciting, so I made him a box too:

• Pack of shots
• Socks and fluffy socks but his feet are massive so it's very hard to get socks for him!
• A hot chocolate cone
• A huge mug too
• Guitar picks
• Guitar strings
• Favourite sweets
• Christmas jumper
• Tickets to a band he likes - this was a joint birthday present as well because his birthday is a month after Christmas

He squealed like a little girl and said thank you for like a million years.


These boxes are a good idea if you're stuck on a main present to get your family and you can do them at a budget quite easily as well going to places like B&M and pound shops where I got a lot of mine from, they're easy to do and most people will love the amount of thought that went into them.