Homemade Gifts They’ll Really Love

For the frugal shopper.

“What’s in the box?” The famous question. Brad Pitt asked it, and you know it’s true. Also it was the main question in the movie Kiss Me Deadly. For Brad Pitt it was a head in the box and for Kiss Me Deadly it was radioactive light. There’s also a “Twilight Zone” episode called “What’s in the Box,” and what’s in the box in that one is the future. In the “Twilight Zone” episode “Button, Button,” what’s in the box is a choice — a deadly choice. Or is it? It is — and you can be sure the next person to get that box will be a stranger.

But this holiday, what’s in your “box”? 😉 That was innuendo, but this isn’t: This holiday, what’s in your box? For the frugal shopper, The Hairpin has gathered a few options that you can make out of things you already have at home or for a nominal cost. Our gift to you.

Allow Your Loved One to Stand On Your Hands

The best gifts come from truly knowing someone, and truly knowing how to surprise them. Surely they don’t think you’ll remember the interest they mentioned in passing a few months ago which you’ve now somehow fashioned into a thoughtful present; surely they don’t think you would understand their desire for this whatever and now look, you’ve gotten it for them; surely they don’t think you will lift them onto your hands and hold them up by their feet while they’re standing. Who even knew you were that strong? That daring?

Hold Your Loved One Higher

While holding your loved one on your hands, it is one thing to keep them at the height reached with your elbows bent — a wonderful gift, yes. But the best gift? Well, well. It is wholly another thing to extend your elbows and lift them as high as possible and then to stand on a chair so they are even higher.

Push Your Loved One Through the Ceiling

Now, here’s a surprise. A new perspective. A bit of a lift. Dangerous fun. When it comes down to it, most of the things on your loved one’s holiday wish list are futile attempts to “buy” these experiences with money, but here you can “give” them these experiences with love. 🙂 Push them right through the ceiling so the tippy-top of their head is on the outside, and the rest of their body is on the inside.

Higher

Higher. Push them out higher and higher, all the way through the ceiling.

Throw Your Loved One Into Space

Space: cold and lifeless, peaceful and away. Quiet. There is no better gift for someone you love this holiday season than lifting them on your hands, pushing them through the ceiling, and throwing them into space.

Plus — it won’t cost you a thing. 😉