One year we “invented” the Dessert of the Month gift for my grandparents. We used a small local bakery and ordered something different to be delivered every month. This gift lasted the whole year. My grandparents loved looking forward to their next surprise dessert and delighted in telling us all about it when it arrived!
Stowie, if they can afford any advertising, or if they have a Facebook page, they should suggest this idea as a Christmas present for the person who has everything or for that hard to buy for person. Or anyone!
The spa treatment brought me a sweet memory. My son was 15 when my husband passed away. He asked me to take him to a salon to get his grandma a certificate for Christmas. I was blown away he thought of her. Come Christmas the certificate was for me to have my nails done. Sweet heart and still is. Love all your ideas.
Not completely clutter free but one year for my mother-in-law we sent a beautiful vase with a bouquet of fresh flowers and a little poem I had written and then every month for a year we sent her a lovely bouquet of fresh flowers 💐 she loved it as it was something to look forward to each month xx
For my niece's bridal shower, I gave her a pizza box. Stay with me here. I asked a pizza place for an extra box. I put money, scratchers in the shape of a pizza. (With a little tape) and added some coins on top as pizza toppings. She loved it!
This is seriously the best clutter-free list I've ever come across! I especially love the idea of my kids spending a weekend at a hotel with a water park with their grandparents. 😍
I grew up not celebrating anything, I still don't celebrate most things. So I'm not good at giving gifts, but last year I made a digital drawing for someone, a few Discord emotes for someone. I'm not in an art phase, so I'm probably not going to gift drawings this year, but I'm in a writing phase. So I will probably just tell the people I love how wonderful they are and in what specific ways they've made my life better and more joyful. Oh oh, one of the best gift I've ever given was to one of my nephews, it was just handwritten vouchers for his 'favorite meal', 'homemade brownies', 'we go see a movie'. He loved it so much, I highly recommend.
I got my dad a detailing for his truck last year for Christmas after a very long year of recovering from a stroke. His truck is his baby and the look on his face was priceless…he was so grateful and loved it because it’s something he couldn’t do himself anymore, but something he wanted done so badly. It was such a wonderful thing to see! ❤️❤️❤️
I love these ideas! I purchased a year-long subscription to a local indoor trampoline park for my grandchildren. They've already started using it and they have both said it is the best gift ever! Even better than Roblox $$$ to spend :)
One of my best friends birthday is in January . She's a busy Mom and hates cooking. I stocked her freezer with homemade meals she could just heat and eat. I've given this often for various occasions to friends and family. It's 100% useful and always appreciated.
We have an outdoor drama about Tecumseh. My mother in law went as a child when it first opened. She hadn't been there since. They had their 50th anniversary and we got her behind the scenes package. It was so awesome. We took her in July but she is still talking about it. We also took her on a train ride to look at the fall foliage. Time together. ❤❤❤
Donations to a cause close to their heart. Many NGOs will actually offer a certificate or similar which can be personalised to say that a donation was made on the gift recipient's behalf towards that organisation. If the organisation doesn't do certificates, you can always just write a card that says you donated. If you know that person is passionate about a specific cause, they will be delighted with that as a gift. Totally clutter free and it makes a difference.
One year I bought goats and cows in my friends’ name (I can’t remember the charity but the idea was giving a family an animal was better than money) and so I gave my friends little animal figurines along with a card saying what I did.
Yesterday was my 60th birthday and on Sunday my daughters and husband surprised me with a family photo shoot of the four of us, with a twist. We went to an alpaca farm!!! It was awesome! 😀
For my niece who is a new driver, and besides school, now has a job to drive back and forth to, I got her a gas card to help fill up her tank. It was very appreciated!
I have a stained glass retail store and I can confirm that our customers LOVE when their family gives them a gift certificate from our store. They love doing stained glass and it is an expensive hobby so having money to spend is a great gift. After the holidays when they come in they are so excited to spend that money! Sometimes people do ask for a gift certificate for classes as well. Stained glass is a wonderful hobby, not only relaxing, but you can make beautiful art pieces for yourself, your family and friends! Love all of your ideas!
My great grandmother gifted her daughters with a professional genealogy report years ago. You want to talk about hours of reminiscing, it was truly amazing for everyone.
Magazine subscriptions! After I read them, I donate them to my doctor office, nursing home, and hospital waiting rooms. They come into my home for a month and then out the door for others to enjoy!
Hi Cas I just saw this. One year, my mom put my gift in a purse. It was material and a pattern for a new outfit. And the most creative gift of all was when my daughter's boyfriend proposed on my birthday! How many daughters can give their mothers a son-in-law as a present? It's a once in a lifetime gift that keeps on giving.
Hi, thank you for your wonderful videos! Just got diagnosed with add,so very relatable. Hope more people give, but this is a start for spuse up your car!😉 I just had my birthday, and got some credit for Cirque du Soleil. So happy to to have to declutter
As a parent/grandparent, I love the digital frame I have!!! Whether your children are near or far, it is great to have in my kitchen where I view family pics all the time. When my husband and I go places, I add those too!
We use the Google nest hub the same way. I have a Google photo album that I add photos of the kids to and all the grandparents have their Hub showing the album photos as the default background. Acts as a digital photo frame but can also play music and tell you the weather plus more.
I recently retired from teaching and the best gift for teachers are gift cards. Teachers spend so much on their students but hardly ever on themselves. Also, if we have taught for several years we already have too many ornaments and things that sit around gathering dust. I also had a problem with candy and treats because I eat low carbs. All in all teachers love gift cards!
Sorry, can I just ask if teachers have to spend from their pockets for the kids/class rooms, I mean for supplies and materials. Are teachers expected to spend from their pockets? I'm from a different country and teachers do not spend a single penny on kids or classrooms. If it's a public school, govt will provide if it's private they are rich enough to afford everything. That's the way it should be, isn't?
I’ve been giving experience gifts to my son and daughter-in-law for the past few years. They love it. This year I’m giving them a session in a Rage Room and then a gift card for dinner afterwards.
@@Clutterbug it’s a room that is filled with breakable items from glasses to washing machines and you are given a bat and time limit and you break as much as you want. It relieves frustration and people seem to love it!
I love the idea of gift cards to home improvement stores. You can pick up things needed for the house or needed for a project in your home. Also comes in handy when you need an appliance fixed.
I design beautiful stamped greeting cards and tags. The women on my Christmas list love getting sets of these for gifts. And for me, I love getting pickles and preserves from the homesteaders in my family and friends ❤️🎄
Love the snowman chocolate bar! So cute! For close family, I make assorted baked goods and put them in a beautifully decorated box. But, it's too involved for me to do that for everyone on my list. I'll definitely incorporate some of these ideas. Thanks Cas!
I love your gift ideas! My mother would buy my children savings bonds. They cashed them in when they went to college and really appreciated the money for textbooks and unexpected expenses.
Love these! My favorite clutter free gifts: - national parks pass - Luxury shower oils + soaps (L'occitane 🙏) - a luxury or authentic food item to go with their favorite meal (pricier cheese, olive oil) or a favorite food found on a trip (hells kitchen peanut butter out of Minnesota 🙏) - Small home update items + installing/repairing them so they don't become clutter 😁 (stalking their Pinterest boards for ideas or asking them nonchalantly what they'd update, doorknobs? Porch lights? Etc.) - A framed letter of favorite memories + lessons I'm grateful for, typed up for individual family members
What great ideas Cas! Thanks! I'm working on a family cookbook that has lots of family favorite recipes, some that have been handed down from great-great grandparents. They will be "bound" into a 3-ring binder along with various kitchen and family gathering photos and fun memories.
Great idea Jackie! There are so many recipes that I miss and wish I had a gift like this one! It reminds me of a family calendar I created for everyone one year. Just needed to buy spiral binding combs (about 75 cents each) and go to Staples to use their machine in Paper + Copy Centre (for free) to make the holes and bind each calendar. Everyone loved them! Much love from up north 🥰🇨🇦
Canadians on a budget could tape loonies and toonies to a wide piece of ribbon and do likewise, for young kids. Or even for adults: good for coffee money, laundromat change, public transit fares (which have to be exact now), etc.
I'm doing the wreath for my 83 year old mom. 😊 THANKS YOU JUST MADE MY DAY. NO more racking my brain. I give them to her every year with postage stamps usually on a dollar tree Christmas tree but the wreath is a change of pace. Did the car detail for mothers day she loved it.
I am giving the gift of helping my friend decluttering and organize their kitchen! This will include containers, and of course time and connecting. Fingers crossed that I can do this without judgment, and be supportive.
For my siblings who live out of state, I try to sent a hometown favorite. Chicago style deep dish pizza, Fanny May candy, or even Chicago popcorn mix. Think of what is unique to your town(Palmer House original brownie maker) and fashion a gift around that❤️
A digital frame!! I love mine. They come with a dedicated email, so anyone with the email can send a picture to the frame, and it will be added to the rotation. I love the surprise of seeing new pictures popping up. I'd rather have this one frame full of pictures that rotate and I see than all the paper photos I used to store in a box.
What a great idea! I think the grandparents whisky live far would appreciate this. Can I ask what model you have? Do you have to pay a monthly fee for the web storage service? I was going to purchase the Nixplay and saw there is a monthly fee. Thank you!
On one hand, I love this idea...on the other, this is the tip most likely to end up as 'Exhibit A' in a courtroom if one can maliciously upload content to it without the knowledge or consent of the owner.
My mother-in-law is in a nursing home and definitely doesn’t need or want stuff. She has quite the sweet tooth so we are going to fill a stocking with wrapped special snacks that she likes. For my father-in-law, his wife and her sister, we are getting gift cards to their favorite restaurant. So many restaurants have had such trouble during Covid so this is also a great way to support small businesses and their families.
I scrapbook and have been making them for my sister and her husband this year since I'm caught up. It took care of 2 birthdays and will for this Christmas when I pick up more pictures to work on in 2022.
My parents are buying my three kids season pass to our local zoo. One year we did a hotel water park visit! And our best friend paid for a Disney plus subscription for the year. My kids love it.
Research this in your city! In Cincinnati we have The Learning Kitchen. They have Date nights 🍽💕 and individual classes… and you eat what you just made! 👍🏻
I just gave out our Christmas cookie boxes. I always feel like even if people don't need cookies themselves, they have some fancy treats to put out at parties or for unexpected guests.
So many great ideas! Thank you! My siblings and I all went in together to get my mom and stepdad two of those tourist passes one year, for the area in which they live. They were able to go to different venues throughout the year that they might not have otherwise spent their own money to go to. For birthdays for the grandkids, they in turn take each child out for an activity and a meal, like to the aquarium or a trampoline park or a painting class, and then out for dinner or lunch. My kids look forward to their day out every year. My mom takes a few pictures and adds them to a birthday book she bought for each kid to keep throughout the year to remember those times.
I’ve been trying to come up with gifts that are clutter free. Or as one friend said she doesn’t want anymore dustables lol Thanks for the great ideas I especially loved the Kleenex box My idea this year for a few friends is to get them a box of appetizers they can just throw in the oven over the holidays and have a yummy snack
I like “Dustables” So good!! Next time I see some “ knickknack” I think is cute....I’m going to say to myself....Do U Need Another Item To Dust...and walk away!! Thanks for the thought!!
My lovely sister in law takes my daughter to her place to bake Christmas goodies for an afternoon. They both have a great time and have made lots of memories over the years. She also takes the kids out for a special lunch for their birthday. My kids are teens and young adults now and they still love this so much more than a gift.
Genius ideas Cas. I am loving these ideas. I would only add making a donation to a worthy cause in the person's name. Have a great day and for sharing these great ideas. Blessings - Judith 🎵🎭
Yes, all those are thoughtful gifts. I would be happy for just the baby sitting no extras. My older children were always available. My younger ones are OK if we are running errands but, not for us to actually go out. We just sneak outside and have date night once a week on our patio. We started that when our 2nd oldest went to college and had no one nearby. Gifts cards are wonderful if you know a place they frequent often, it best. Especially for picky people.
I don't want my whole car detailed, but I told my daughter I wanted the inside of my windshield cleaned. I've tried and still have streaks. I'll be super thrilled with this.
That was so fun--I was physically smiling watching! These are, I think all, truly great ideas--I love the "money to blow" (tee hee). I may intersperse some fun money-quotes/facts, and maybe a couple of silly-face photos...and if I go with ones, maybe put the odd five in there...
Some really good ideas on this. I’ve felt so uninspired this year walking around the shops looking as the same old stuff that gets repackaged every year. I went for a lot of edible products in the end but will try some of these next year and for birthdays!
I had my ever so sarcastic answer ready “Nothing but love and best wishes.” Is the no clutter gift but you knocked that right out of the park. Brilliant ideas! Loved the snowman gift, cash box, exchange vouchers, and the reminder of the older ideas too. Please forgive my assumptions. Never too old to learn.🇦🇺💚🌲💚🇦🇺
So because this is an item, some people may not considerate clutter-free, but considering it can be used to replace all the picture frames you have around your house, I think it might be awesome. An electronic picture frame that downloads pictures via the web and email automatically. This is especially useful for family members that have a hard time getting physical pictures of the grandkids for example. And it helps prevent you from needing to send physical copies to those who are less electronically literate. These types of frames allow you to set up one account with the frame, and then people can send all their photos to the email address on file and they will automatically appear on Grandma's picture frame
Love this idea! I just ordered one for my Mom and will set it up and load pictures on it for her Christmas present this year. I'm so glad I saw this posst!
I gave the snowman candy bars to co-workers way back in the day . When you first had the printable they loved it. They actually asked for candy bars the next year that they could display the snowman again. Thanks for a great list.
Here in the UK some companies do postal Cream Teas - with scones, clotted cream, jam, biscuits and tea bags (to which you can add wine, chocolates etc) which is a welcome treat gift for any occasion.
I used to try to spend the same on my Dad that I did on my Mom. One year I spent more than I planned on my Mom and had no idea what to get my Dad to make it more even. I gave him a card wrapped with a short handwritten note telling I would make him one pie , of his choice once a month. He LOVED IT!! The next year I went back to normal presents and he told my Mom if he could pick a gift, it would be the pie-a-month. He received that for many years after.
Love all your ideas. Love the subscription ideas, the money tissue box and scratch off ticket wreath. You're so creative. The beaver balls at the end was super funny too 🤣❤️
I live in Michigan and LOVE Tim Hortons! I have to drive 30 min to get to a TeeHo but it is part of every journey in any direction of one! I'll pass on the Beeber bits! Lol!! I love the snowman gift cards!! Great idea and so cute! Favorite!!
Facials are so relaxing and you can find deals, especially as a 1st time client. I get one every 3 months, but I would do it monthly if I could. Self care is great for mental health. :)
My aunt used to wrap a gift Christmas before high school graduation & wrap it in single dollar bills all taped together. Took an hour to unwrap, but was fun... 🤣❤♾❤
Every Christmas my whole family plays Dirty Santa but they are good gifts. Limit of $25.00 and everyone always wants the Money 💰! I bought 5 $1.00 lotto tickets and attached a $20.00 bill on the back of one of the tickets. Everyone loved that gift 🎁! Yes some were winners! Yay 😁! Thanks for sharing all the ideas and I will definitely be using some of them this year for our games!
Here is the link to the snowman wrapper and tissue box tag printable: clutterbug.me/products/snowman-wrapper-and-tissue-box-gift-tags
I LOVE THE TISSUE BOX GIFT!!!!
Where do you get the sleaze that you put the money in or how do you make that
@@melindalloyd3805 it's an old Kleenex box
@@Clutterbug I think Melinda meant “sleeves” that you put inside the box.
This is the cutiest thing!!!
One year we “invented” the Dessert of the Month gift for my grandparents. We used a small local bakery and ordered something different to be delivered every month. This gift lasted the whole year. My grandparents loved looking forward to their next surprise dessert and delighted in telling us all about it when it arrived!
Wow!!! What a great idea !
This is a great idea…and my daughter-in-law owns a bakery. 😃 I’ll get this for my best friend for next year!!
Stowie, if they can afford any advertising, or if they have a Facebook page, they should suggest this idea as a Christmas present for the person who has everything or for that hard to buy for person. Or anyone!
@@CheriJ11 Agree 100%! A terrific idea for building your business!
Awesome!!
I’d also add, paying a utility bill for someone! My mom does this and it’s such a blessing for us!
How thoughtful!
I would love to do this for my mom one day!
I thought of that after I had given my mom my ideas 😥 I need to sell stuff
Great idea!
This is a grrreatTt idea!!! Hot Dang, BINGO🎉😂❤😅
The spa treatment brought me a sweet memory. My son was 15 when my husband passed away. He asked me to take him to a salon to get his grandma a certificate for Christmas. I was blown away he thought of her. Come Christmas the certificate was for me to have my nails done. Sweet heart and still is. Love all your ideas.
Awww, what a sweet boy you have! I'm sure his dad would be proud.
Not completely clutter free but one year for my mother-in-law we sent a beautiful vase with a bouquet of fresh flowers and a little poem I had written and then every month for a year we sent her a lovely bouquet of fresh flowers 💐 she loved it as it was something to look forward to each month xx
How sweet!
For my niece's bridal shower, I gave her a pizza box. Stay with me here. I asked a pizza place for an extra box.
I put money, scratchers in the shape of a pizza. (With a little tape) and added some coins on top as pizza toppings. She loved it!
This is seriously the best clutter-free list I've ever come across! I especially love the idea of my kids spending a weekend at a hotel with a water park with their grandparents. 😍
I once gave my granddaughter a book of the month club for Xmas.
I grew up not celebrating anything, I still don't celebrate most things. So I'm not good at giving gifts, but last year I made a digital drawing for someone, a few Discord emotes for someone.
I'm not in an art phase, so I'm probably not going to gift drawings this year, but I'm in a writing phase.
So I will probably just tell the people I love how wonderful they are and in what specific ways they've made my life better and more joyful.
Oh oh, one of the best gift I've ever given was to one of my nephews, it was just handwritten vouchers for his 'favorite meal', 'homemade brownies', 'we go see a movie'. He loved it so much, I highly recommend.
Yes!! Love those!
I got my dad a detailing for his truck last year for Christmas after a very long year of recovering from a stroke. His truck is his baby and the look on his face was priceless…he was so grateful and loved it because it’s something he couldn’t do himself anymore, but something he wanted done so badly. It was such a wonderful thing to see! ❤️❤️❤️
Love that!
I’ve watched this three times now, for the awesome ideas and the shot of enthusiasm. You are fabulous, Cas, as always - thank you so much!!!
You crack me up....I love that you wear your heart on your sleeve.....
I love these ideas! I purchased a year-long subscription to a local indoor trampoline park for my grandchildren. They've already started using it and they have both said it is the best gift ever! Even better than Roblox $$$ to spend :)
I bought this for my kids too, the gift that keeps on giving 😊
Awesome idea!
Great idea!!
That’s what I should have told my parents to get the kids. Awesome Idea!!
One of my best friends birthday is in January . She's a busy Mom and hates cooking. I stocked her freezer with homemade meals she could just heat and eat. I've given this often for various occasions to friends and family. It's 100% useful and always appreciated.
How do you present your freezer meals? I’m doing this too.
How thoughtful!!
We have an outdoor drama about Tecumseh. My mother in law went as a child when it first opened. She hadn't been there since. They had their 50th anniversary and we got her behind the scenes package. It was so awesome. We took her in July but she is still talking about it. We also took her on a train ride to look at the fall foliage. Time together. ❤❤❤
Donations to a cause close to their heart. Many NGOs will actually offer a certificate or similar which can be personalised to say that a donation was made on the gift recipient's behalf towards that organisation. If the organisation doesn't do certificates, you can always just write a card that says you donated. If you know that person is passionate about a specific cause, they will be delighted with that as a gift. Totally clutter free and it makes a difference.
Nice!
This can be a great one. I did this for my wedding (many many moons ago) vs all the table clutter (that was expected). The guests loved the idea.
I do this with my aunt and uncle and grandparents. 🥰
My daughter is an animal lover, and was really into pandas, so we bought her a Panda sponsorship for her one year. She loved it!
One year I bought goats and cows in my friends’ name (I can’t remember the charity but the idea was giving a family an animal was better than money) and so I gave my friends little animal figurines along with a card saying what I did.
Yesterday was my 60th birthday and on Sunday my daughters and husband surprised me with a family photo shoot of the four of us, with a twist. We went to an alpaca farm!!! It was awesome! 😀
Oh neat!
For my niece who is a new driver, and besides school, now has a job to drive back and forth to, I got her a gas card to help fill up her tank. It was very appreciated!
Perfect!
I have a stained glass retail store and I can confirm that our customers LOVE when their family gives them a gift certificate from our store. They love doing stained glass and it is an expensive hobby so having money to spend is a great gift. After the holidays when they come in they are so excited to spend that money! Sometimes people do ask for a gift certificate for classes as well. Stained glass is a wonderful hobby, not only relaxing, but you can make beautiful art pieces for yourself, your family and friends!
Love all of your ideas!
Lovely!
My great grandmother gifted her daughters with a professional genealogy report years ago. You want to talk about hours of reminiscing, it was truly amazing for everyone.
How precious!
My 23 and 20- year old sons LOVED the “cash to blow” money. Our whole family thought it was so clever. Thank you!!🎄🥰
You're welcome!
Spa and car detailing....love those ideas!
Thanks so much!
Magazine subscriptions! After I read them, I donate them to my doctor office, nursing home, and hospital waiting rooms. They come into my home for a month and then out the door for others to enjoy!
As a proud Canadian, I LOVED your end story! I like their coffee, though.
My parents renew my AAA for Christmas every year. It is such a fabulous gift that I appreciate so much!
What a great idea!! Go Mom and Dad!
Hi Cas I just saw this. One year, my mom put my gift in a purse. It was material and a pattern for a new outfit.
And the most creative gift of all was when my daughter's boyfriend proposed on my birthday! How many daughters can give their mothers a son-in-law as a present? It's a once in a lifetime gift that keeps on giving.
Canadian money is so colorful! Lucky!
:)
Hi, thank you for your wonderful videos! Just got diagnosed with add,so very relatable. Hope more people give, but this is a start for spuse up your car!😉 I just had my birthday, and got some credit for Cirque du Soleil. So happy to to have to declutter
Thank you!
As a parent/grandparent, I love the digital frame I have!!! Whether your children are near or far, it is great to have in my kitchen where I view family pics all the time. When my husband and I go places, I add those too!
We use the Google nest hub the same way. I have a Google photo album that I add photos of the kids to and all the grandparents have their Hub showing the album photos as the default background. Acts as a digital photo frame but can also play music and tell you the weather plus more.
:)
I love your ideas! I am a teacher's aide and I have enough candles and soap to last a lifetime!! The candy bar snowman is a great idea!
Glad you think so!
And mugs,!
I recently retired from teaching and the best gift for teachers are gift cards. Teachers spend so much on their students but hardly ever on themselves. Also, if we have taught for several years we already have too many ornaments and things that sit around gathering dust. I also had a problem with candy and treats because I eat low carbs. All in all teachers love gift cards!
Okay everybody, TEACHERS WANT GIFT CARDS!!!
Sorry, can I just ask if teachers have to spend from their pockets for the kids/class rooms, I mean for supplies and materials. Are teachers expected to spend from their pockets? I'm from a different country and teachers do not spend a single penny on kids or classrooms. If it's a public school, govt will provide if it's private they are rich enough to afford everything. That's the way it should be, isn't?
@@JSH26 Should be but isn't in the U.S.
Great ideas, Cass! I love the snowman!
So glad!
I’ve been giving experience gifts to my son and daughter-in-law for the past few years. They love it. This year I’m giving them a session in a Rage Room and then a gift card for dinner afterwards.
What's a rage room?!?!
@@Clutterbug it’s a room that is filled with breakable items from glasses to washing machines and you are given a bat and time limit and you break as much as you want. It relieves frustration and people seem to love it!
I love the idea of gift cards to home improvement stores. You can pick up things needed for the house or needed for a project in your home. Also comes in handy when you need an appliance fixed.
Good one!
I’m actually doing this this year it’s a great idea!
I design beautiful stamped greeting cards and tags. The women on my Christmas list love getting sets of these for gifts. And for me, I love getting pickles and preserves from the homesteaders in my family and friends ❤️🎄
Wonderful!
Love the snowman chocolate bar! So cute! For close family, I make assorted baked goods and put them in a beautifully decorated box. But, it's too involved for me to do that for everyone on my list. I'll definitely incorporate some of these ideas. Thanks Cas!
You're welcome!
I love your gift ideas! My mother would buy my children savings bonds. They cashed them in when they went to college and really appreciated the money for textbooks and unexpected expenses.
A family member recently discovered how much more difficult it is now to cash in a US Savings Bond. Wow, the hoops she had to go through!!!
Love these! My favorite clutter free gifts:
- national parks pass
- Luxury shower oils + soaps (L'occitane 🙏)
- a luxury or authentic food item to go with their favorite meal (pricier cheese, olive oil) or a favorite food found on a trip (hells kitchen peanut butter out of Minnesota 🙏)
- Small home update items + installing/repairing them so they don't become clutter 😁 (stalking their Pinterest boards for ideas or asking them nonchalantly what they'd update, doorknobs? Porch lights? Etc.)
- A framed letter of favorite memories + lessons I'm grateful for, typed up for individual family members
Great picks!
CAR DETAILING!!!!!! yes!
What great ideas Cas! Thanks! I'm working on a family cookbook that has lots of family favorite recipes, some that have been handed down from great-great grandparents. They will be "bound" into a 3-ring binder along with various kitchen and family gathering photos and fun memories.
That is awesome!
Great idea Jackie! There are so many recipes that I miss and wish I had a gift like this one!
It reminds me of a family calendar I created for everyone one year. Just needed to buy spiral binding combs (about 75 cents each) and go to Staples to use their machine in Paper + Copy Centre (for free) to make the holes and bind each calendar. Everyone loved them! Much love from up north 🥰🇨🇦
That money pull box is great! I always make one for kid’s birthdays! Your are right about the 1’s, 1’s make kids feel like bagillionaires! Lol 😆
What is the wrap made from?
Canadians on a budget could tape loonies and toonies to a wide piece of ribbon and do likewise, for young kids. Or even for adults: good for coffee money, laundromat change, public transit fares (which have to be exact now), etc.
IKR?!
Canada does not have singles?
I'm doing the wreath for my 83 year old mom. 😊 THANKS YOU JUST MADE MY DAY. NO more racking my brain. I give them to her every year with postage stamps usually on a dollar tree Christmas tree but the wreath is a change of pace. Did the car detail for mothers day she loved it.
Yay!!
Wood tray instead of gift basket: the small to medium size tray is always extremely useful to people especially women
Good thought!
The last two and a half minutes of this video are the best thing I've seen all week.
I'm glad you think so!
"Beiber Balls," too funny! Thanks for all the great ideas, as usual, Cas 💜
As a grandma I love, love family pictures.
See!! Such great gift!
So many gift ideas, thank you to Cass and this Clutterbug Community 🎄🤗🎁
You're welcome!
At 52, I have started spoiling myself with a pedicure every 3-4 months. It’s a nice, relaxing treat to myself 😊
Love that!
I am giving the gift of helping my friend decluttering and organize their kitchen! This will include containers, and of course time and connecting. Fingers crossed that I can do this without judgment, and be supportive.
For my siblings who live out of state, I try to sent a hometown favorite. Chicago style deep dish pizza, Fanny May candy, or even Chicago popcorn mix. Think of what is unique to your town(Palmer House original brownie maker) and fashion a gift around that❤️
What pizza do you send???
Nice!
YES, I've given out-of-state folks Garrett's Popcorn before!
A digital frame!! I love mine. They come with a dedicated email, so anyone with the email can send a picture to the frame, and it will be added to the rotation. I love the surprise of seeing new pictures popping up. I'd rather have this one frame full of pictures that rotate and I see than all the paper photos I used to store in a box.
What a great idea! I think the grandparents whisky live far would appreciate this. Can I ask what model you have? Do you have to pay a monthly fee for the web storage service? I was going to purchase the Nixplay and saw there is a monthly fee. Thank you!
Love that!
I need to copy this comment and send it to my family! This is an awesome idea!!
Wow that is an awesome idea
I didn’t know you could add to them
On one hand, I love this idea...on the other, this is the tip most likely to end up as 'Exhibit A' in a courtroom if one can maliciously upload content to it without the knowledge or consent of the owner.
I'm dying!! I don't live in Canada but now I feel the need to taste Tim Horton's coffee! Too funny!
I love your Tim Horton story. Bieber Balls forever.
Lol!
My mother-in-law is in a nursing home and definitely doesn’t need or want stuff. She has quite the sweet tooth so we are going to fill a stocking with wrapped special snacks that she likes. For my father-in-law, his wife and her sister, we are getting gift cards to their favorite restaurant. So many restaurants have had such trouble during Covid so this is also a great way to support small businesses and their families.
Sounds great!
Would love gift ideas by ClutterBug type too. Dawn had a good idea for a drill charging station that would be great for a Bee.
I scrapbook and have been making them for my sister and her husband this year since I'm caught up. It took care of 2 birthdays and will for this Christmas when I pick up more pictures to work on in 2022.
Lovely!
My parents are buying my three kids season pass to our local zoo. One year we did a hotel water park visit! And our best friend paid for a Disney plus subscription for the year. My kids love it.
I bet!
You are so funny! (I stayed to the end of the video!) 🤣 Love your suggestions re clutter-free gifts.
Couple cooking classes is what I want 😇
Research this in your city! In Cincinnati we have The Learning Kitchen. They have Date nights 🍽💕 and individual classes… and you eat what you just made! 👍🏻
Fantastic!
I just gave out our Christmas cookie boxes. I always feel like even if people don't need cookies themselves, they have some fancy treats to put out at parties or for unexpected guests.
True!
So many great ideas! Thank you! My siblings and I all went in together to get my mom and stepdad two of those tourist passes one year, for the area in which they live. They were able to go to different venues throughout the year that they might not have otherwise spent their own money to go to. For birthdays for the grandkids, they in turn take each child out for an activity and a meal, like to the aquarium or a trampoline park or a painting class, and then out for dinner or lunch. My kids look forward to their day out every year. My mom takes a few pictures and adds them to a birthday book she bought for each kid to keep throughout the year to remember those times.
Awesome!
I’ve been trying to come up with gifts that are clutter free. Or as one friend said she doesn’t want anymore dustables lol
Thanks for the great ideas
I especially loved the Kleenex box
My idea this year for a few friends is to get them a box of appetizers they can just throw in the oven over the holidays and have a yummy snack
Good thought!
I like “Dustables” So good!! Next time I see some “ knickknack” I think is cute....I’m going to say to myself....Do U Need Another Item To Dust...and walk away!! Thanks for the thought!!
My lovely sister in law takes my daughter to her place to bake Christmas goodies for an afternoon. They both have a great time and have made lots of memories over the years. She also takes the kids out for a special lunch for their birthday. My kids are teens and young adults now and they still love this so much more than a gift.
Beautiful!
Genius ideas Cas. I am loving these ideas. I would only add making a donation to a worthy cause in the person's name. Have a great day and for sharing these great ideas. Blessings - Judith 🎵🎭
Great idea!
Thanks for being such a Christmas 🎄 💕 Blessing to so many ❤
Great… “Bieber balls”, another thing I never wanted to know about that I can never un-know LOL. I love you Cass. You’re so fun
Glad you think so!
Yes, all those are thoughtful gifts. I would be happy for just the baby sitting no extras. My older children were always available. My younger ones are OK if we are running errands but, not for us to actually go out. We just sneak outside and have date night once a week on our patio. We started that when our 2nd oldest went to college and had no one nearby.
Gifts cards are wonderful if you know a place they frequent often, it best. Especially for picky people.
Love the sneaking out!
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You saved me. Thank you so much for the free printable and ideas for the niece and nephew gifts. Love your videos, girl. Keep it going!!
Will do!
Love these ideas, Minimalist or not, they make unique thoughtful fun gifts!
For sure!
I don't want my whole car detailed, but I told my daughter I wanted the inside of my windshield cleaned. I've tried and still have streaks. I'll be super thrilled with this.
Those are so hard to reach, aren't they?
Best video, EVER!! I just wish that you posted it in late October early November & just replayed it in December 🎃 🦃🎄❤️
Maybe next year I'll post gift ideas earlier.
That was so fun--I was physically smiling watching! These are, I think all, truly great ideas--I love the "money to blow" (tee hee). I may intersperse some fun money-quotes/facts, and maybe a couple of silly-face photos...and if I go with ones, maybe put the odd five in there...
Cool!
Board Games, Yes!! They are life… we play together once or twice a week as a family as well. 👍🏻
Love it!
Some really good ideas on this. I’ve felt so uninspired this year walking around the shops looking as the same old stuff that gets repackaged every year. I went for a lot of edible products in the end but will try some of these next year and for birthdays!
Go for it!
Excellent!Thank you!
I love these gift ideas! I'm a photographer and so I agree that a family photo shoot is a great idea. 🤗
Glad you like it!
I had my ever so sarcastic answer ready “Nothing but love and best wishes.” Is the no clutter gift but you knocked that right out of the park. Brilliant ideas! Loved the snowman gift, cash box, exchange vouchers, and the reminder of the older ideas too. Please forgive my assumptions. Never too old to learn.🇦🇺💚🌲💚🇦🇺
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So because this is an item, some people may not considerate clutter-free, but considering it can be used to replace all the picture frames you have around your house, I think it might be awesome. An electronic picture frame that downloads pictures via the web and email automatically. This is especially useful for family members that have a hard time getting physical pictures of the grandkids for example. And it helps prevent you from needing to send physical copies to those who are less electronically literate. These types of frames allow you to set up one account with the frame, and then people can send all their photos to the email address on file and they will automatically appear on Grandma's picture frame
Great idea!
Love this idea! I just ordered one for my Mom and will set it up and load pictures on it for her Christmas present this year. I'm so glad I saw this posst!
Great ideas!!! 🎄❄️💜
Thanks!
I gave the snowman candy bars to co-workers way back in the day . When you first had the printable they loved it. They actually asked for candy bars the next year that they could display the snowman again. Thanks for a great list.
You're welcome!
I liked the tissue box idea. 😄
Yay!
Here in the UK some companies do postal Cream Teas - with scones, clotted cream, jam, biscuits and tea bags (to which you can add wine, chocolates etc) which is a welcome treat gift for any occasion.
Yes!!! Date nights and spa day ♥️
Those are the best!
Such amazing ideas! 😍
I am glad that you included board games. I often give a board game as a gift for the whole family.
I LOVE board games!
I used to try to spend the same on my Dad that I did on my Mom. One year I spent more than I planned on my Mom and had no idea what to get my Dad to make it more even. I gave him a card wrapped with a short handwritten note telling I would make him one pie , of his choice once a month. He LOVED IT!! The next year I went back to normal presents and he told my Mom if he could pick a gift, it would be the pie-a-month. He received that for many years after.
Oh how special!!!
Great gift ideas :)
Love you guys! Happy Holidays ❄️❤️
Well hey there Melissa! Thanks! I enjoyed your gift guide a few weeks ago as well!!
Love all your ideas. Love the subscription ideas, the money tissue box and scratch off ticket wreath. You're so creative. The beaver balls at the end was super funny too 🤣❤️
Glad you liked it!
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Thank you for all the great suggestions. I just love hanging out to the end. Bieber balls, classic
Glad you like them!
I live in Michigan and LOVE Tim Hortons! I have to drive 30 min to get to a TeeHo but it is part of every journey in any direction of one! I'll pass on the Beeber bits! Lol!! I love the snowman gift cards!! Great idea and so cute! Favorite!!
Glad you like them!
Or as well call it, Timmy's.
These are brilliant!
Facials are so relaxing and you can find deals, especially as a 1st time client. I get one every 3 months, but I would do it monthly if I could. Self care is great for mental health. :)
For sure!
Some really great ideas!
My aunt used to wrap a gift Christmas before high school graduation & wrap it in single dollar bills all taped together. Took an hour to unwrap, but was fun... 🤣❤♾❤
Oh how funny!
My mother-in-law gives us a food gift basket every year. Also gift cards and a check. We love it.
Kathy B.
How nice of her!
Every Christmas my whole family plays Dirty Santa but they are good gifts. Limit of $25.00 and everyone always wants the Money 💰! I bought 5 $1.00 lotto tickets and attached a $20.00 bill on the back of one of the tickets. Everyone loved that gift 🎁! Yes some were winners! Yay 😁! Thanks for sharing all the ideas and I will definitely be using some of them this year for our games!
Glad you like them!
I love the gift card w/ chocolate bar idea!!!
I'm so glad!
Fabulous gift idea’s!!! Can’t wait for new Hot Mess House shows
Keep checking HGTV's website for updated show information!
Great ideas thank you! Love from france xxx
{{{ HUGS }}} from Canada!
Cute and helpful ideas. I like the grandparents gift strategy. Simple is great 👍🏼
So happy you like them!