Neighbor Christmas Gift Ideas

Christmas Gifts For Coworkers And Neighbors

What do you get for your neighbors for Christmas?

How about your coworkers?

Your neighbors and colleagues are people you would see everyday. At home, your neighbors are closest to you. In case of an emergency in your home, your family and friends who live far away may not reach you in time. Your neighbors may well be the ones you have to count on to save your life, or the lives of your loved ones.

If you work, chances are you would spend most of your waking hours in the office with your coworkers. A poor working relationship with your colleagues can make life plain miserable. Being great friends with your colleagues whom you see everyday can make a major difference to the quality to life in the office.

It is wise to build a good relationship with your neighbors and colleagues.

Exchanging gifts is a great way to help build rapport. Or at least a cordial relationship. As is helping one another, forgiving the careless words that might hurt and basically building an easy-going, give and take relationship with the people you see everyday.

Back to the topic of Christmas gifts. What do you get for your colleagues and neighbors?

If you know them well enough, you might pick a gift that is in line with their hobbies. A new set of golf clubs for an avid golfer if you budget permits it. Eye cream for a neighbor or colleague who keeps complaining about her dark rings under the eyes or crows feet.

For the office gift exchange or for coworkers or neighbors you might not know very well, but would like to impress, Christmas gift wine might be more appropriate, unless they are teetotalers, that is.

I know, the temptation to recycle unwanted Christmas gifts from last year is strong and you know what? You might be able to get away with it. Two rules to remember.

1. Don't give the gift back to the one who gave it to you.

2. Match the gift to the recipient. One man's junk is another's treasure, so give these presents to people who would actually use them.

Christmas food gifts are very versatile and more affordable. These are wonderful for neighbors and colleagues especially if you are afraid something too personal might cause misunderstanding. Everyone must eat, so good food would be appreciated by both sexes and by the young and old alike. In fact, food gifts are your best bet.

Cookies make great Christmas gifts. If you have the time, you can bake your own. If not, you can always buy delicious cookies beautifully packaged as Christmas gifts for anyone who is not on a diet. Home made Christmas cookies make cheap Christmas gifts that would be well received.

If you want to give something that shows some effort and save money as well, how about giving Christmas cookies to everyone, in pretty basket tins. Make them yourself in bulk quantities and you would save quite a lot of money. Get flour, eggs and baking ingredients and cookie recipes to make an assortment of Christmas cookies. Use cookie cutters to cut the cookies into festive shapes. Put them in airtight tins or pretty baskets and present them to your neighbors and coworkers for Christmas.

Too much work? Give perfume coffrets. For a family with women or teenage girls, or even one with guys who are well groomed, a fragrance coffret for the girls or guys or both, would be a nice change from food gifts.

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Frequently Asked Questions

QUESTION:
Christmas gift ideas for an elderly neighbor?
We usually give our neighbor who is older a little Christmas gift each year. I'm out of ideas this year. She is active and apparently not hurting financially. Do you have any good ideas?
- ANSWER:
  A plant for her house or garden. A planted poinsettia perhaps.
  
  Some home made treats from your kitchen unless she's on a restricted diet.
  
  Maybe some special teas.
QUESTION:
random Christmas gift ideas to put on my neighbors porches?
You know, the old 'Set down the gift, ring the bell, scram' thing. Any ideas for simple gifts I can make?
- ANSWER:
  A little homemade card with a sweet message would be nice.
QUESTION:
I want to give my neighbor a Christmas gift/peace offering, Ideas?
We have lived in our house for 3 years and have a neighbor that only my husband has spoken to and only a couple of times. They are a bit obnoxious and the clash is mostly because we just live VERY differently. They are not the best neighbors, to say the least. One fall we had to call animal services because they tied a dog up in their back yard for days, in the rain, and it barked non stop. We have heard them have a fist fight in the back yard and seen a member of their household escorted away by Special Ops! They have EIGHT young children of whom they allow to play in their backyard until all hours of the night if school is not in session. They are very entitled about blocking the street to move their boat, camper, atv and truck, often throughout the summer as well as having friends park on the sidewalk if they have too many people over. This summer, after hearing their kids jumping on the trampoline and playing past 2am, 3 nights in a row (my bedroom window is right next to their yard), I was at my end. The next night at 10:30 pm as I was laying down for bed, I heard yelling and jumping in the pool and I LOST it! Me screaming, yelling, swearing, not even considering that there were kids out there as well. Yes, there are some actions I could take, and why the hell would I want to give these people anything? Bottom line is; These people have lived there for 15+ years and neither of us are moving anytime soon. She threatened to call the cops on me and we've had (will have) plenty of reason to on them, but do you really want to deal with that with your neighbor? I have 2 teens that are quiet and respectful, I have 2 dogs that we don't even keep out in the yard long enough to bark, we are just very quiet and respectful neighbors, like I said we just live very differently. I am hoping that I can make a gesture that will show that we are above this petty feuding and might cause them to be more considerate. It is hard to come up with something genuine when you really don't like a person...
- ANSWER:
  It doesn't look like they deserve any thing but some sense knocked into them!
QUESTION:
Christmas gift idea for friendly neighbor?
Something inexpensive, yet tasteful. She's a very nice and funny 50 something...she's surprised me with new clothes for my baby among other things. Any ideas?
Also...should I give my mailman something? He walks door to door delivering mail in all weather. I've run into him a couple of times at a nearby convenience store. I was thinking of maybe a gift card to that store in a Christmas card. Or should I not even worry about it? I thought it would be a nice sentiment...he could get some coffee or hot chocolate on the colder days.
Thank you!
- ANSWER:
  You could get your neighbor a small gift basket, maybe put some bath and body stuff, some nice coffee, candy, a mug, etc. You can put one together for fairly cheap, and they're fun to make.
  
  The mailman would be a nice gesture. I'm sure he would be much appreciative of it, it's always good to make friends and be noticed to people like that, to let them know that you appreciate what they're doing. He probably doesn't get much recognition for the work he does. Either way, maybe even just a Christmas card with a nice thank you note inside would be nice!
QUESTION:
any ideas for a gift for the game rob your neighbor for our christmas party at work, under .00?
we decided to do a fun game, so it's a white elephant gift, i can't think of anything funny.
- ANSWER:
  My family plays this game every year. Not all of the things we get are funny, but they may help you come up with something that is. Here are some things we usually have:
  
  Dish towels
  Lip gloss
  Socks
  Batteries
  Candies of various types
  Underwear
  Pantyhose
  Lock de-icer
  Key chains
  Candles
  Cheap DVD's that no one really wants
  Pencils/Pens/Markers/Crayons
  Playdough
  Silly Putty
  Magnets
  Flashlights
  Cards
  Coffee
  Hot Coco mix
  Lotion
  Measuring tape
  Woopie cushions
  A container with this slime that made fart noises
  Pet treats
  Mini puzzles
  Small notepads
  Manicure/pedicure sets
  Nail pollish
  
  That's all I can think of....