Here's a way I stretched a dollar on gift giving at work. I thought it might come in handy for some of you
I went to Marshall's (a discount dept. store) and bought a gourmet bag of flavored coffee for $5. Then I went to the dollar store for small velvet bows and also decorative goody bags for $2. I found bags shaped like a snowman that you need to close with a twistie tie....I used the velvet ribbon instead. I measured out the freshly ground coffee into the snowman bags...enough for an 8 cup coffee pot. I had fancy cut out shaped gift tags and I wrote on them who the coffee was for and also "White Christmas Coffee - makes 8 cups". I punched a hole in a Smile Card and slipped it on the gift tag string. They look so cute and I can't wait to hand them out to 12 of my friends at work this Tuesday.
Often times I've wanted to buy a bag of the gourment flavored coffee, but didn't because I knew I wouldn't want to drink it for weeks and weeks before it was finished. I figured this will work out good for my friends. They will be able to treat themselves to a nice pot of yummy flavored coffee and think of me. :)
