3 Affordable Tips For Dressing Up Cheap Kitchen Gifts
If you are looking for an affordable gift for someone you love, consider looking for gifts for the kitchen. For someone who loves to cook or bake, affordable kitchen appliances or other small kitchen-related gifts can be much appreciated. If you are looking to bulk up your gift a little bit, however, you can try one of these cheap tips.
1. Add a Few Handwritten Recipes
People who love to be in the kitchen often love to try new recipes. If you have a few tasty recipes that you would like to share, consider including them with your gift. You can hand write or type them onto index cards or recipe cards and add them in with your gift bag, for example. One cool idea is to punch a hole in the corner of your stack of recipe cards and thread a pretty ribbon through the hole to help keep them together. When choosing recipes, you can stick with a theme—such as offering dessert recipes to gift with a nice set of baking dishes—or you can simply share a few of your personal favorites. Either way, the personal touch is sure to be very appreciated.
2. Gift Homemade Mixes
You can mix up all of the dry ingredients for cookies, brownies or other tasty desserts and layer them in a nice mason jar. Then, attach a tag that includes the directions for preparing the tasty treats. This is a great homemade filler to add to the gift bag, particularly when you are gifting cooking-related items.
3. Add Small, Affordable Kitchen Fillers
If you head to the local dollar store or get online, you should be able to find small, affordable kitchen fillers that can go a lot way in dressing up your cheap kitchen gifts. For example, you can prepare a nice gift basket that includes kitchen towels and oven mitts. You can also look for wooden spoons, plastic spatulas, handheld can openers and other small, inexpensive kitchen necessities. This is a great way to bulk up a small gift or to give the gift of cooking to someone who is just starting out and in need of supplies.
If you are looking to give away a kitchen gift to someone you love but feel that your gift could be dressed up a little, try one—or all—of these three tips to do so on a budget.
For other cheap novelty gift ideas, visit your local home and garden shop.