Ways to give cash as a gift?

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<p>You’ve all been so helpful on the gift ideas for students, I’m going to tap into your wisdom on another gift situation. My neice wants cash as a Christmas gift which is fine with me. Unfortnately the gifts are opened in group setting so I need to make it interesting - something better than a check in an envelope. She won’t care, but my husband’s family will think I took the easy way out when all I’m doing is giving her what she wants! Sad after all of these years I’m still trying to impress these people!</p>

<p>There is a dollar limit on the gift so we aren’t talking big bucks. Suggestions?</p>

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<p>Cash gifts should not be opened in group settings. It’s poor ettiquette.</p>

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<p>I agree, but it’s one of those holiday grab bag things. Every gift there is approx. $50. She just wants the money.</p>

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<p>Get a big box. Tie dollar bills to a string. Cut a hole in the top of the box. Put the money in the box & have the string come out through the hole. Wrap the box, put a bow on it - you can finagle something so when you untie the bow and pull, the string of dollar bills comes out and out and out.</p>

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<p>zeebamom, I did that for my niece last year and it was perfect!!!</p>

<p>Maybe a treasure hunt? a word puzzle that reveals the location? OR just wrap in a box inside a wrapped box inside…</p>

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<p>You could also make a “bouquet” of bills with origami or a lei or something. My SIL often ties money to a cute stuffed animal or puts it in a cute coin purse, even for young adults. Money is her favorite gift to give or receive as well. :)</p>

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<p>You could get a hardcover book (something cheap, but that she might like) and tape the $ to the inside of the covers. Then wink and tell her you just know she will “enjoy it from cover to cover”. If she has any discretion regarding the etiquette question, she will respond something like “oh, my favorite author”.</p>

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<p>We’re giving DS gift cards (I know…a little different than cash…but the idea is the same). We are buying him a wallet and we are putting a bunch of gift cards in the slots.</p>

<p>You could get this gal an inexpensive wallet and put the money inside it.</p>

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<p>Get the book or wallet at Goodwill, Salvation Army etc. Cute idea and cheap to do. I’m going the cash route some next year. I stopped at a Simon Mall today for S’s g/f gift cert. $3 <em>activation</em> fee on a $25 card. What a rip! Forget that. Next year she can have $28 in real cash.</p>

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<p>that gives me an idea…I will staple the bills length-wise and arrange them in a square tissue box with one end sticking out…then they just have to pull and pull…</p>

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<p>When I was about 10 years old someone gave me a “money tree”. It was 20 $1 bills folded as a fan and then folded in half. Each fan was attached to a tree branch by a thin ribbon. The branches were placed in a pot with potting soil on the bottom (you could probably glue fake grass rather than using soil, which could get messy). I think you can do the same thing. If this is $50 you can fan some fives and some singles.</p>

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<p>Don’t put the money in a book.
I’m still finding $5 bills from the books my mother used to give me.</p>

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<p>I just finished taping 50 dollar bills end to end, rolling them up and putting them in a box with the first dollar coming out of a slot - this is for my daughter who only wants money. Very easy and I think the kids will all get a kick out of it when she opens it.</p>

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<p>I remember getting a purse at my high school graduation. I thought it was such an odd gift… it wasn’t really my style of purse but I thanked the person that gave it to me. Then after the party I found all this money tucked in the different compartments and I understood. I called and thanked her for the money, haha!</p>