Holiday CD and an iTunes gift card hidden in homemade ornament.
I got invited to the most delightful ornament exchange this holiday season complete with wonderful ladies, delicious treats, and a pile of decadently wrapped ornaments in the middle of the room. I’m a practical gal, as you know, so I decided to get something useful rather than lavish. Dare I say, it was a hit?
The ornament limit was $10. I bought a $10 iTunes gift card from Safeway (part of the savings offer we talked about last week). Then I made a mix CD of my new favorite Christmas songs. I quickly put the CD and gift card together in a homemade CD holder shaped like an ornament and wrote, “Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree” on the front.
After an initial look of horror on the recipient’s face as she opened something clearly made out of construction paper and a rushed cutting job, the ladies cooed as she revealed the contents of the ornament. My non-ornament hit the “three steals” limit before landing in it’s final resting place–with a woman who said her kids would love it! So maybe her tree won’t be donning a new fancy bauble, but her kids will be feeling the holiday spirit nonetheless.
I have another ornament exchange later this week. I’m going to channel my inner-Martha Stewart and try making a dangling ornament instead–ribbons attached to graduating larger circles until the gift card is revealed. Or not. It depends on how much time I have.
