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Old 08-17-2006, 10:34 AM
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Default Re: Do you impose frugality in gift giving?

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Sometimes the best gifts are not goods (things) but services. Think of what you could do for someone that they would really appreciate and would also not cost you much (perhaps only the gas that you would have spent driving to the store to buy them the thing):

* Give them an "errands day" where you do everything like picking up their dry cleaning, going to the post office, etc.

* Wash their car once a week for a month

* Mow their lawn or weed their garden three times

* Do something using your specific skills -- massage? hair cut? manicure? drywall?
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Default Re: Do you impose frugality in gift giving?

Once I got a giftcard to a spa. I regifted it because I didn't want to spend any money on a gift, plus, I would never splurge on a spa anyways.
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