Our Rare Show Of Original Creativity

For some of our neighbor/friend Christmas gifts this year, my husband and I had a moment of creativity and came up with an idea that I've never seen before (but I'm sure we're not the first to think it up).

Last year, my husband won a sweepstakes where he got at least 14 bags of Halls Cough Drops (for tips on doing sweepstakes from Ryan, click here). So since there was no way we needed that many cough drops, we decided to give them away for Christmas. Well, really, my awesome husband says it better than I do (although it didn't QUITE happen this way). Here's his side of the handout we made for our gift:

Isn't my husband so creative? Most people don't know it, but he is pretty talented with rhyming. Although I won't tell you that it took him a half-hour to write this (I never thought he'd get so involved in neighbor gifts!). So then I took 5 minutes and came up with this for the "flipside".

Then we punched a hole in the cough drop bags, tied the handouts to the bags with cute ribbon and wah-la! We were done! No spending hours cooking goodies (although we did do that for a few gifts) and stressing out when they weren't home to receive the goodie plates. It was so NICE!

I'm pretty proud with the way they turned out and we got quite a few laughs when we handed the gift to them. Then they read Ryan's poem and laughed even harder. I told all of them not to expect such creativity out of us next year... because who knows what we'll be doing then!