#275: Gift Giving Ideas

A Beautiful Mess Podcast

Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week we're going to share ideas for putting together advents, unique ideas, low cost or free holiday gift ideas, epic personalized gift ideas and neighborly gift ideas. And we'll also share our book report.

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Adult Advent Ideas:

Books

Lipgloss

Hair oil

Dutch oven

Water bottle

Small treats

T-shirt

Kid Advent Ideas:

Reuse old toys

Candy

Snacks

Creative Gift Ideas:

Watercolor post cards

Fancy set of watercolors

Journal

Low Cost (or free):

Used book that you loved

Pictures

Epic personalized gift ideas:

Leather bound of their fave book

CD player with CDs

Record player with records

Go on Etsy

Jewerly

Recipe engraved on cutting board

Quilts

Fancy food

Snow outfit (for kids)

Art

Neighborly gifts:

Teachers - Have kids make cards with picture and money inside

Jar of baking ingredients

Free library

Book report

Elsie: Piranesi by Suzanna Clark Emma: Apprentice to a Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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0:00.0	You're listening to The Beautiful Mess Podcast, your cozy comfort listen.
0:08.3	This week we're going to share ideas for putting together advents, unique ideas, low-cost or free holiday gift ideas, epic personalized gift ideas, and neighborly gift ideas.
0:20.1	And we will also share our book report.
0:22.2	Are you ready to talk about gifts?
0:23.7	Let's do it.
0:24.5	Let's do it.
0:25.7	Gift giving season.
0:27.5	Hell yeah.
0:28.5	I love gift giving.
0:31.0	I love gift giving.
0:32.5	What I love most is like the planning.
0:34.6	Yeah, I think it is my love language.
0:35.8	Yeah.
0:36.9	Of the.
0:56.1	It brings me so much joy. The five love languages by Gary Chapman. I remember that. Yes. And you like receiving gifts and you like giving gifts. Yeah. And I do think you are a very good gift giver. Thank you. So these tips are all brought to you by LCS. And gifting's really fun. I do think it is an opportunity to make people feel seen and can also just be fun. I also think like making it
1:01.4	fun for yourself instead of it being a chore is a good perspective to try for. So yeah. No, I,
1:09.1	I definitely agree with that. I think that there have been years of my life where I didn't have very much money and like holiday gift giving was like stressful and yeah, like difficult and frustrating. And then there have been years of my life where I was kind of just like checking the boxes and just
1:27.9	trying to get it done. And then there have been years where I really got into it and enjoyed it.
1:33.0	So that's what we're trying to make this episode about wherever you are in life. Hopefully,
1:38.4	I personally don't think you can enjoy buying every single gift on the list. If you're like me and you do the, I do the whole family
1:45.4	every single thing. There's one person that does everything and it's me. And I think a lot of
1:50.8	women have that role in their families and it's like a, you know, common thing or whatever.
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