14 free things for Mother’s Day

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Maybe you’re broke, maybe you’re cheap or maybe you just want to give Mom something special that didn’t come from a store.

Here are groovy Mother’s Day gifts that  that cost nothing or almost nothing:

1. Free 8×10 photo enlargement If you upload a photo to Walgreens photo site, you can use the promo code to get a free 8×10 photo enlargement. Then beg, borrow or steal a frame, and you’ve got a nice free gift that’s actually personal, too.  You have until Sat. May 12 to do this and if you pick up in the store, you don’t have to pay for shipping.
2. Make a keepsake Make a free cute “cupcake” refrigerator magnet for mom Saturday at JoAnn Fabric and Craft stores. This is a great activity for kids from 11 a.m. to noon at all JoAnn stores.
3. Free Redbox rental Redbox is rewarding moms everywhere with a Facebook fan freebie for a free rental on Sunday, May 13. Visit Redbox’s Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/redbox and click on the app icon for “Mother’s Day.” Once there, you can send a card to anyone who is a mom, or has a mom
4. Printable coloring pages that kids can decorate for mom. These are cute pictures that even the smallest kid can color and give to mom
5. Personalized “I’ll do this” coupons Maybe Mom needs babysitting, or grocery shopping, or her garden weeded, or her dog walked.  Maybe she would like a coupon good for chores done without complaints, or a back rub, or the promise to dump the boyfriend she doesn’t like. Just write it up, put a colored border around it, and wrap it in a box. She’ll like it. Really. Click here to see some free Mother’s Day coupon templates you can download from Microsoft Office and here are some more cute IOU coupon templates good for gifts
6. Free Mother’s Day fest at the Orange County Museum of Art On Sunday, the OC Museum of Art in Newport Beach is having a special Mother’s Day event. Admission and parking are both free.  There will be live entertainment, too. Even if you don’t like art museums,  this might be a nice special thing to do with your mom or wife and kids.
7. Free meal for Mom Free Mother’s Day meal at Mama’s on 39 in Huntington Beach. Mom can get a free meal at Mama’s. I suggest making reservations.
8. Free Knott’s Berry Farm ticket If you bring Mom to Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park on Mother’s Day and feed her brunch at Mrs. Knott’s Chicken Dinner Restaurant, you can get free admission to the theme park that day. And other members of the party can get in for $25, if they also enjoy the brunch. The Knott’s all you can eat Mother’s Day champagne buffet brunch is $29.95 for adults, $22.95 for seniors, $16.95 for kids.
9. Write a Mother’s Day poem I am a mom, and I can absolutely guarantee that this gift will be carefully saved as a treasured memory, while other presents are used up and discarded. It doesn’t have to be a good poem, it only has to be from the heart. And, yes, you have to say something nice, even if the last time you saw your mom, she threw you out of the trailer park while she was drunk. Here are some ideas to get you started. And here are Mother’s Day poems for kids.
10. Give Mom a spa day at home Turn a room into your home into a mini-day spa. Put on some soothing music. Take a white sheet and cover up the couch, put her there in a bathrobe. Mix oatmeal and honey for a cleansing facial mask, with cucumbers or tea bags on her eyes. If any of your neighbors has a foot bath, maybe they’ll lend it to you, otherwise just take a deep pan and soak her feet in hot water.  Then, give her a manicure and pedicure, brush her hair and give her a massage if she’ll let you.
11.  Make Mom a slide show, starring her There are some easy programs these days where you can upload your photos and make a digital slideshow with Mom as the star of the show! You can check out this special Mother’s Day free slideshow template at Smilebox or Snapfish, but there are a whole lot of others out there, too, where you can upload your photos, put them into a virtual album and add music to make a slide show.
12. Email greeting cards you can send Here’s a large selection of Mother’s Day cards you can send by email from 1-2-3 Greetings, including “From daughter to Mother,” “Missing You, Mom,” “For Someone Special” and more.
13. Printable card templates you can personalize and print out If you don’t want to send an e-greeting, here are dozens of printable cards that you can customize and then print out for Mom.  Some are pretty funny. They have some cute designs, also from 1-2-3 Greetings.
14. Download some free tunes, put them on your mom’s MP3 player or burn them onto a CD.  Click here to go to free Amazon.com downloads. You can choose from 1,700 songs!

Do you have other ideas for free gifts for Mom? Let us know in the comments below.

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