Money Saving Tips: Recycled Gifts
Over on Parenting Ideas today is listed some tips to help parents save some cash.
One that I use frequently is recycling gifts. Very often my kids are bought clothes that do not fit them, or that they grow out of before they wear, they also receive at least a few duplicate toys and games each year.
I never throw these out. Rather I keep them in my ‘gift box’ and sooner or later an occasion arises when I can repackage them as a gift for someone else.
Obviously I don’t do this for my closest friends or family. But when Rachel gets invited to one of her friends many birthday parties, quite often I can save myself some money by wrapping a something from my gift box rather than purchasing something new.
Also if a mum from school or mother and toddler group has a new baby, I may just have the perfect gift for them.
I don’t see it as being tight fisted or mean. Just a way of recycling something that would be of more use to someone else.
Does anyone else have any good money saving tips?
my family laughs at me, but I totally love going to yard sales. around here, they have “neighborhood” sales once a year, so you can hit one entire neighborhood early in the morning. and since it is once a year, it is good stuff. lots of brand new things!
especially kids clothes— tons of barely worn cute girl’s things.. the boys things are a little more ragged, but that isn’t surprising..
On the way home from the beach today I passed a thriving car boot sale. I stopped the car and was itching to get out. But I had already called Gerard and asked him to start the dinner, and all three children were fast asleep in their car seats so I excercised my self discipline and drove home. I am still kicking myself!