ALT-2 Inexpensive Birthday Gift Ideas for a best Friend
A best friend is the most valuable asset to have. Yet, when it comes to birthdays, sometimes we can be at a loss as to the most appropriate gift to get them especially when funds are low. Here are some inexpensive birthday gift ideas for a best friend who is treasured and whose friendship is priceless.
1. A blessing a day.
Find a clean and beautiful container. It can be a chocolate tin, a clean cookie jar, or even a presentable clay mug. Write a blessing on clean coloured paper or mini-scrolls. Roll each of them tightly and place them in the container. Have 366 of them, or as many blessings as you can think of and as many as the container would hold. Your best friend would love reading one or two a day.
2. Bake a cake, or your best friend's favourite food.
Your gift, made by you in your limited free time, and given with loads of love, is worth more than the hastily bought designer cake that is delivered with no emotions. A best friend will appreciate the time you have spent on making a rare dessert that he likes and finds difficulties in locating. He will also appreciate the fact that you have tried to make something that he will otherwise have to spend a bomb on.
3. Spend quality time together.
You could pack a unique picnic basket of homemade goodies that your best friend loves, and go for a picnic with your beat friend. Simply spending an evening together over a home-cooked dinner and reminiscing the days when your best friend was a real friend to you, could be a pleasant alternative to a picnic.
4. Make him something.
Making someone an exquisite gift takes careful planning, time and effort. You can be sure that if the gift is designed by you and not copied, your gift will be unique and precious to your best friend. You could also add something symbolic to your unique relationship, a reminder to your best friend that you are that best friend to him too.
5. Compile memories of him.
Your memories of him could be captured and presented in the form of an audio-visual account, a scrap book, a collage and even a quilt. You could collect photographs of him from his colleagues, family and friends, have them digitally reproduced for your digital works, or put them together tastefully in a physical scrap book.
Accentuate details that flatters his character without making him feel awkward. Include quaint moments that had meant something special to him. Poignant moments that evoke fond memories could be included. As it is a birthday gift, it may not be wise to put something inauspicious, such as funeral pictures, especially if he is a Chinese with a staunch belief in superstitions and Ying and Yang, opposing forces of good and evil.
Inexpensive birthday gift ideas need not be tasteless. It all depends on the effort you put in to make your gift special and meaningful to your best friend.
