Yankee Candle has votive candles that you can buy by the dozen. Some "off season" votives are discounted. Wrapped in a clear or colorful cellophane bag/wrap with a pretty ribbon is a nice gift.
Some of the lingerie or bath shops have pretty little lotions like JHB mentions. Bath & Body works has mini bottles of hand sanitizer in a multitude of scents. I gave the Candy Cane sanitizer out for Christmas thank you's.
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Ha! A friend just came by with a lovely thank you gift for me. I don't know if you'd want to try this for 30 -delivery might be a pain, but...
It's 4 large chocolate covered strawberries sitting on a square clear plasic plate (like you'd buy at a party place for a fancy affair). The plate and berries are wrapped in stiff celephone from the bottom with festive ribbon closing it and a small Thank You card attached. It's cold, so she must have had them in the fridge.
What a great treat! I'm sure she made them herself, so it took some time and thought, but wouldn't have cost her a lot. Makes me feel special. And - nothing to dust!
I'm with the others. Just a note would be great. Or - if you must - go with a token, consumable gift - small bag of candy, sweet smelling votive candle. No coffee cups, magnets, plants, or (heaven forbid) any knicknak that requires dusting. (And while I appreciate the idea of luxurious, pampering baths, I don't really know anyone that USES bath salts and such.)
We have a similar issue at work with co-worker gifts among our small department of about 9 people. This year, one lady gave us these tiny (but yummy smelling, very rich) jars of lotion. It holds one ounce and is about the size of the miniature jelly jars you see when you go to nice hotel or restaurant for brunch. Maybe an inch tall. But it was wrapped with festive bow and accompanied by a sweet note. No finding a place to put it, no calories, no DUSTING. Just a very small token that said - "hey, I appreciate you!". I think it was the best office gift I ever got.
While just a hand written thank you note should be enough.... try Michaels or JoAnns --- I found cute keychains one year at Michaels in their dollar section marked down to .25 cents.
They had a picture of a flower on the back and room for a picture on the front--- and I printed off a note to put in, on the front side that said thank you for helping to plant the seeds of success for our children. or thank you for helping the children at XXX Bloom!
It a nice gift that didn't cost very much-- I also took a pick and attached the keychain to it and put in in a small flowering plant-- geraniums were like .99 each
So for 1.30 I had a great thank you gift without busting my budget... and then I had a small get together of all the volunteers and called them up one at a time and gave them their thank you-- we served finger desserts and drinks--- great way to say thank you!
I truly understand the sentiment of wanting to give them a physical / tangible gift as a thank you but... what is wrong with just the simple and heartfelt note?
Just simply mho based on two things I see a lot of in this world. 1) Money is really tight for a lot of people right now so I don't think anyone should expect anything and 2) Too many people do expect "stuff" and if that's the case their in it for the wrong reasons.
