Gift Ideas for Someone Who Helped Out in a Pinch

I'm all about a great harvest gift basket. It looks good, tastes good and you can put as little or as much as you want in it. I usually get a couple loafs, cookies, honey, jam, and a bread knife.

Gas or grocery gift card -- if you want to go practical. OR how about movie gift card or to a restaurant. If they have kids, offer to babysit for them, while they go out to dinner.
L.

Well, I'll tell you...my husband and I literally pulled a burning man from a fire and saved his life. His mother came over one day and gave us a watermelon...and we were very grateful for that! Any little gift would be nice...and also not neccessary, but thoughtful. I'd never thought before to give a watermelon, but what a cute idea!

L.,

My mom helped someone out with a flooded basement and when it was all said and done, she received a gift basket of assorted english muffins with an assortment of jellies. It was very nice and great! Look on the internet and find something like that. Also, I like the idea of putting a gift basket together yourself. You can get a basket and somethings in expensive at ross or marshals. Do like a theme. If they are cooks maybe get an assortment of spices and bbq sauces. Hope that helps!

How about a gift certificate for a nice dinner out? for a thank you.
A gift basket with ?? something nice in it.
A basket with candles.
Maybe something they wouldn't normally get for themselves in a basket?
Good luck and have fun fixing up something. I know I always enjoy something from the heart and hand made means a lot of thought went into the gift.

a homemade dessert. there's no doubt it's from the heart.

What about a bottle of wine?

Maybe a pedicure or a gift certificate to a spa? I love going and getting a little pampered. I think all gifts and cards are great thank yous, but when I received a gift certificate for a massage at the local spa, it was a real treat. (I have to admit I really like home made treats as well!) Whatever your mom does will be heartfelt and show her appreciation for her friends.

MOVIE TICKETS!! Everyone likes to go to the movies. Or a gift card to dinner at a nice place in town. I think that should do it.

Since I'm always on a budget, cost is a huge factor to me.

Not sure how old these wonderful helpers are....., but:

Gift cards to a restaurant. If you go through couponmom.com and THEN go to restaurantcoupons.com you can get 60% off a gift card. i.e. Spend $5 and get a $25 or $35 gift card to a restaurant. I'm not kidding! Go to couponmom.com and click on her restaurant coupon link.

Homemade stuff: invite them over to dinner. Prepare a special brunch for them on a Saturday morning...frittata, scones, fresh muffins, fruit,mimosas (!) etc. I don't know if they are friends or not, but it might be a great way to bless them and get to know them a little better.

Quality time is so important to so man people so if you can find a way to spend time together AND bless them...you can't go wrong.

This last school year, I helped out in my daughters class anywhere from 1-3 days a week. For Christmas, my daughters teacher, gave us a gift card to the movies, some microwave popcorn and some stuff to make hot chocolate. She put it in a really cute snowman "bucket". One the popcorn was popped, you could more it into the bucket. It was really cute.
For people who have helped me, I haved bought a basket and put in ice cream toppings, and some little sundae cups. I have also done gift card to places that I know they frequent (wal-mart, bath and body, etc)

A really fun gift for help is to get some inexpensive garden gloves & put a tube of hand lotion inside & put a ribbon around it with a note thanking them for their helping hands!

What I did for people who brought dinners over when I had my baby was, I went to Bath and Body Works and bought some hand lotions and foaming handsoap (they smell so good!!). They go on a really good sale all the time like 3 for $10. Then I bought the large Symphony and Hershey bar with almonds and put together a little thank you for them. It was fairly inexpensive to do that for 5 people. Maybe 2 movie passes and a treat would be okay as well if it is only for a couple of people so your costs aren't really high. Have fun!!

She could get them gift cards to a restraunt or invite them all over for a BBQ to say thank you if there was several of them. C.

Hi L.,
I would buy them a gift card for their favorite resturant so they can have dinner on you/your mom.

Good luck