Christmas Cookies
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| Tue, 12-07-2004 - 1:41pm |
This year I'm only allowing myself 500$ for Christmas shopping money. That's less than half of what I've spent in the past (since I was about 16). Usually the money is spent on DBF, whose family spends way too much money on Christmas. He really needs clothes, so I found a sale at Old Navy. I still have a few hundred left for my dad, mom, roomate and little sister.
Where I run into $$ trouble is usually with extended family (anuts, uncles, the almost in-laws).
I've decided this year that everyone is getting cookies. When I was little my mother made cookies for everyone. She made the cutest Christmas cookies. She made all different types and decorated them beautifully. Every year everyone in my family would get a cute tin of cookies for Christmas, or Chanukah. She got very sick this past year and is in a nursing home, so she can't make them this year....no cookies. I found all of her recipies and I started making them. I just finished Chanukah cookies last night for my Jewish friends and some members of my family. I'm sending them out tomorrow.
The ingredients cost a little $$...and the tins I got at the dollar store, so I didn't even spend 20$ on them. It's ton of work, but I think people will appriciate them.

That sounds like a wonderful idea! I think people will appreciate the thoughtfullness and the hard work that went into it much more than the dollar value.
Happy baking!
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Sorry to hear about your mom.
I think it's a wonderful jester (sp?) about the making the cookies your mom did in the past. I'm sure the receivers would appreciate it more than anything store bought.
MYM
I think that baking cookies is a wonderful idea! It's great that you want to continue your Mom's holiday tradition for her.
I do this each year for my husband's co-worker gifts. He has about 20+ people in his office, so I buy tins at the dollar store or at our local "Big Lots" store for 2/$1 and then I make lots of cookies. Everyone gets about a dozen cookies in their tins, lined with holiday paper, and they always complement my husband and I on them. I'm not a big baker, so I just get the cookie mixes from Walmart for 99cents, and each makes 3 dozen cookies. I do sugar, chocolate chip, and peanut butter. I might be able to cut the cost more if I baked from scratch, but I'm not sure. :-)
Patty