Christmas is fast approaching and it's time to think about buying gifts! However, in 2014, a Yougov survey revealed that 20.4% of French people were stressed by this period. The majority of them are concerned about the necessary budget and some are afraid of not having enough time to make their purchases. It sometimes feels like a race against time! However, we forget that the spirit of Christmas is not based on the overbidding of gifts, the goal is to please and above all to aim right. Often, we simply forget this aspect! Why not go back to basics and create these presents yourself? Here are 5 reasons to give a handmade Christmas gift.
Making a DIY Christmas gift is cheaper
Even though we do not always know which present to choose to please, we come up against the cost of gifts. The CSA institute survey of November 26, 2019 tells us that the French plan to spend an average of 355 euros on gifts. Of course, this figure is variable according to the families and the possibilities of each one. But it remains a budget, sometimes difficult to support. Thus, for some years, some people have chosen to offer a handmade gift .
A DIY present does not have the same value as another, it is not so much its financial value that counts as the fact of putting sharing back at the heart of the exchange of gifts. Thus, at French Kit, each creative kit offers to carry out a project from 9.90 euros. For an affordable price, you have the necessary equipment to make yourself a Christmas present. Consider that the time spent creating a unique gift is a more personal investment than buying an object printed in 100,000 copies.
Giving a handmade Christmas gift is original
Every year many French people resell their Christmas gifts! In 2016, 42% of French people said they had received a gift they did not want to keep. Beyond the missed gift, or the duplicate, this suggests that the choice of gifts is not dictated by originality or good taste. So, we can offer a gift card so as not to be mistaken. However, this solution remains not very personal and does not really involve you in the act of offering to please.
If you choose to make your own gift , you are 100% involved. Creation depends on you. But if you are not a DIY fan, you may fear the lack of know-how and material available. The goal is not to invest in expensive hardware. Make a pretty modern embroidery for 14.99 euros, material included, by choosing from our Savoir-Faire kits . In the kit, find all the consumables and the technical instructions in videos. So you easily create an ideal and unique gift.
Save time by making your own gifts
Every year, it's the same, you go from one store to another without finding what you're looking for or you stay online for hours to find ideas. Then, you search for available gifts that will arrive on time. In any case, you encounter the stress of the shops or the fear of not being delivered soon enough.
Rather than getting into a frantic race to complete your Christmas shopping, sit down and create. You won't take more time to make a handmade gift than to find and buy it. Make two pairs of trendy macramé earrings with a French DIY kit to give to your niece will take you 1h30. A pleasant time during which you will relax and may well get caught up in the game of Do It yourself.
Give a DIY gift that carries an emotion
When you make yourself a Christmas present , the act is different from that of a purchase in store. You chose the project, you bought it, but you also spent time on it. It is this creative moment that is full of emotions. Throughout the production, you have necessarily thought about the person for whom it is intended. Little by little, you imagined his reaction, and made the present with love.
Do you want to offer a handmade Christmas gift that arouses emotion? Create an original photo album for your mom so that she has several photographs of her grandchildren inside. With a French kits mini album kit, create a 100% personalized project with your photos. An album which, for sure, will please by laying out beautiful memories.
Make a memorable Christmas gift
In the age of planned obsolescence, gifts don't last forever. Moreover, the constant zapping with which society is confronted makes and breaks fashions with disconcerting rapidity. A gift that pleases today may not be used tomorrow, or it will no longer work in a few months. The consumer society goes like this... but the choice to offer a gift that you have made goes beyond all these considerations.
The gift you have made for a loved one escapes time and trends. It represents a keepsake that retains the sentimental value you have given it. It creates a stronger bond with its recipient and symbolizes your attachment. Offering a handmade macrame decoration is still infinitely more touching than buying a ready-made suspension in a decoration store.
Giving a handmade Christmas gift is therefore an opportunity to:
- make a gift at a lower cost but which has real meaning and sentimental value;
- give a unique and original present;
- save time rather than wasting it in the shops and enjoy creating easily;
- to please with a gift that carries an intention and an emotion;
- make this present a memory that creates a bond and remains memorable.
