Make a placemat and matching napkin. Go to Dollar Store, buy a nice mug. fill mug with assorted tea bags or a couple hot chocolate packets, a biscotti, candy cane. Put it all in a cellophane gift bag. Now someone has their own "tea time" set, and will think kindly of you each time they use it.
G> With the holiday season starting soon, I find I need to buy at least one
How about: A nice mug, mug mat and box of tea or coffee singles or hot cocoa mix. Potholders and oven mitt. (Men cook too.) Set of placemats, maybe add some napkins. Basket of fresh fruit??
Hope these can get some ideas flowing,
Pati, > With the holiday season starting soon, I find I need to buy at least one
Maybe a small container of nuts or pretzels. Gen
Yes, you have to have something that everyone wants !!! Makes it so much fun !! Mary
Many states have laws that if the balance left on a gift certificate / gift card is less than a certain amount, the store has to give cash back.
I've always cashed out gift certificates to our store that are less than $10 because it's not worth it to me to keep track (we still track those by hand -- so 2000! LOL)
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Whataburger gift certificates.
Popular things brought home from seminars and meetings: tiny flashlight pocket knife compact umbrella Lebkuchen itty bitty mints in tin container USB flash drives gourmet chocolates -- c'mon, Pat! ZZ Top-style Cheap Sunglasses (don't grieve if lost) spray can of air (for cleaning corners) DVDs alarm clock ruler, tape measure, thumb games
R/Sandy- cheap but easy
Okay, first of all, what the heck is "Lebkuchen?" Second of all, "cheap and easy??" Sandy, I never would have thought it of you ! Like my friend Star says, "I'm not cheap, but I can be had!" LOL
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:51:31 -0600, Taria wrote (in article ):
Something like that. I've inherited my Grandma's Xmas pickle. Whichever o the kids finds it first gets an "extra" present (in my family something small like candy or a silver dollar, whatever) or in some families gets to open his/her gifts first.
Maureen
This one is FUNNY ... I work in a Pharmacy!! Good idea for someone else though. PAT
Lebkuchen is a German cookie. It is more or less a gingerbread cookie for Christmas. It comes in assorted presentations ..... with chocolate, with almonds, etc. Very good and NOT cheap over here, so I only give it to special people, ones who know and treasure it!! People like Ragmop. Grins. PAT
is it better than speculaas? gawd i love that stuff. when i lived in amsterdam we'd go down to the bakery at 4am just to get the speculaas hot and fresh from the oven. the bakery was in the basement and we'd buy them thru the street level window. omg, they were deeeeeeeeeeelicious!!!! j.
"Pat > Okay, first of all, what the heck is "Lebkuchen?" Second of all, "cheap
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You know I always think of you when Lebkuchen comes to mind, or to mouth, Roberta. ;-D World Market sells "some", but it's not from Nürnberg (you've spoiled us!). However, the Bahlsen will do, for now. ;-)
Cookies & chocolate and quilt> Not better, really, but very different. Lebkuchen (at least the real
ya got my saliva go'n now, Roberta. is this recipe close to what you have?
"Roberta" wrote... Not better, really, but very different. Lebkuchen (at least the real ones from Nuremberg) have a high nut content. the best ones are minimum 25% nuts. They are also made on top of a wafer because the raw dough is very delicate. they are chewy, spicy, utterly delicious. My favorite cookie, although calling them a cookie is sort of like calling vintage burgundy grape juice. Roberta in D, where the year-round availability of lebkuchen is one good reason to move here!
"jeanne-nzlstar*" wrote:
i'm game, ya got the right recipe then? or a link to one more like what you describe. j.
"Roberta" wrote... Sounds like a pretty good cookie, but not entirely lebkuchen as we know it :-) My recipe has eggs. The dough is fairly soft, and instructions say to shape the lebkuchen on the wafers and let them dry overnight before baking. Also, there must be a much higher nut content and/or more spices, because the German ones are very dark. They probably use a more powerful honey too. Now I want to eat one of the ones I just bought! Roberta in D
Elisen is excellent, and so is the Otto Schmidt Lebkuchen. I've a nice collection of the large OS tins. I store assorted sewing supplies in those. I really enjoy Lebkuchen with Gluhwein or ordinary red wine. You are right ... lebkuchen is more than a cookie. Maybe it is a cross between a cookie and a cake. Funny story: my friend sent several relatives OS Lebkuchen tins one year. They all wrote back that the tins were lovely but they were having difficulty peeling the cookie off the paper!! (They thought that wafer was paper; did not realize they should eat the wafer!) PAT ... searching for good lebkuchen for Christmas!
."Elisen" is not a brand, it refers to the quality, 25% nuts minimum. Schmidt is the main factory making real lebkuchen for export outside Nuremberg, and they make Elisen quality among other things. The joke with Ragmop is that this is (almost) her name (and she might be considered 25% nuts ;-) I love the tins too, but don't have room to collect more of them. They aren't allowed to take over the fabric shelves! But the smaller ones make lovely sewing boxes. Roberta in D
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