Thrifty Thursday!

Today is Thrifty Thursday at ScrapTiffany and I hosted the blog for the thrifty tip so I wanted to share it with you here.

A week or so ago, my daughter called me from work and asked me if I could do her a huge favor! She had special dinner plans with her girlfriend that night and was going to be giving her a special gift…. it was the friend she was asking to be maid of honor for her wedding! However, she forgot to wrap the gift! Could I do that for her? Of course, I’d be happy to.

Then I start to gather my wrapping materials only to realize she never purchased a gift bag or box for her gift! Well, that’s just great! It’s storming like crazy outside and I don’t even have my car today so going to buy a bag was not an option. So I had to get creative!

I know we all keep some of those great shopping bags we get from the mall, right? Please tell me I’m not the only one! They are great bags to reuse for lots of things. So I got the idea to repurpose one of those for my daughter’s gift. Obviously, we could not use the bag with “The Secret” written all over it so my scrapbooking brain went to work!

So for absolutely no cost, just recycling a shopping bag and using up some scraps I had, I was able to come up with really cute and personalized gift bag that would have cost at least $5 or $6 bucks in the store! Now if that’s not thrifty, I don’t know what is! Not to mention how excited her friend was to get such a cute bag personalized just for her!

Have a happy Thursday!