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Home » Handmade Gifts » 3 Creative Ways to Give Cash

3 Creative Ways to Give Cash

December 6, 2016 By Jamie Dorobek 10 Comments

For the past few years instead of buying so many presents, my family has opted to do a white elephant extravaganza. It’s such a fun, simple way to exchange gifts with lots of people. We usually have at least 10 people playing and we set the gift limit at $40. We try to make it things that people will actually use vs. dog butt magnets, even though those are pretty funny (my mom would not approve)! The big winner last year was a bakeware and brownie mixes. I’m the oldest of 6 kids, so most of my brothers don’t have fully stocked kitchens. Who am I kidding? I don’t either, ha! This year, I can’t think of anything amazing, so I’m likely just going to give cash. But, I want it to be creative, and y’all know I like my cheesy sayings! (I get ridiculously cheesy for Valentines Day!) So, here are 3 fun ways to give cash as a gift using a Pez dispenser, toilet paper, and play-doh!

(Psst… here are 21 more clever ways to give cash!)Creative ways to give money as a gift

For each of the 3 gifts, I made simple gift tags out of card stock, markers, and a hole punch. My printer is often out of ink or broken, so I’m over free printables right now, ha! To get the little tags on the gift bags, I just un did the knot from the inside the gift bag, and slipped on my handmade tag. Easy, peasy.

Creative ways to give money as a gift

3 Creative Ways to Give Cash:

1. “You’re PEZ-ent is extra special this year!”: Roll up some cash and stick it in an empty Pez dispenser. There are so many fun Pez dispensers out there, I went with Frozen themed, but the Pez dispensers are endless! Christmas themed, Star Wars themed, or even Scooby Doo, which would have been fun for my bunch! As kids, that was one of our favorite cartoons!

Creative ways to give money as a gift

2. “Just in case you get crap this Christmas, use this…!”: I first saw this as embroidered toilet paper from this etsy store, ha! I thought it would make the perfect white elephant gift with a few twenties in the middle. This is probably the winner for my families gift exchange because we’re classy bunch, ha!

Creative ways to give money as a gift

3. “Cheers to a little extra dough!”: We have a few Play-Doh’s laying around our house, and it dawned on me that I could hide some cold, hard dough in a little container!

Creative ways to give money as a gift

 

Do you have a favorite way to give cash as a gift? I did balloons one year, and that was awesome! (See #1 on this list of 21 more creative ways to give cash!)

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Comments

  1. Heidi says

    December 25, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    Fun ideas. I wouldn’t mind some “extra dough”! Thanks for linking up with Funtastic Friday!

    Reply
  2. Hil says

    December 24, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    Love the play dough one! So cool!

    Thanks for sharing at Bloggers Spotlight!

    Reply
  3. Debra Needles says

    December 24, 2016 at 6:10 am

    Such fun ideas! Thanks for sharing at the Funtastic Friday Blog Hop!

    Reply
  4. Christine says

    December 13, 2016 at 4:49 pm

    Now that’s a cute way to give $$ for the holidays! Thanks for joining the DI & DI Link Party. Merry Christmas!

    Reply
  5. Linda says

    December 13, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    These are great! Perfect for giving cash, without being boring. Thanks for the inspiration!

    Reply

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