Cheap Wedding Presents Under $50 - Give Gifts They Really Need

Okay, okay. I know brooms and dust bins and cleansers and mops aren't on anybody's Top Ten list of wedding presents. Neither are sponges or coffee filters. But guess what, that's what we all REALLY need when we try to start up a real household.

Silver-plates picture frames are great and who isn't going to love that pretty ceramic plant? But, putting together a household is not cheap and we forget that it's the 'real world' stuff that gets us from one day to the next.

While the lovely gifts arrive to celebrate a newly-weds impending nuptials we forget that after opening all those great gifts, NOW they have to go out and BUY the items that keep their home nice, tidy and clean. Have you ever started from scratch? If so, do you remember how much the wastebaskets, the disinfectants, the dishwashing cleaner, the vacuum cleaner bags, the brooms, mops, sponges, laundry detergents, fabric softeners, bleach and windex's all cost when you had NONE and had to get them all at the same time?

Who wants bland food? You think a box full of seasonings isn't something special? Have you priced them lately? They're pretty special.

There are so many pictures you want to place around! The plexiglass one's aren't too expensive - but what about when you have to go out and buy, say, five or more?

You're looking at the great chafing dish you received as a wedding present and wishing maybe they bought those frames instead because you're not even sure when you'll get around to using the chafing dish, pretty though it might be.

I repeat - bleach and plungers are not the stuff of dewey-eyed romantics. But I assure you, when the honeymooners come home and real life with all its budgeting stares them in the face, you bet your bottom dollar they are going to be super-grateful that SOMEBODY thought to think of the things that they are REALLY needing.

A gift certificate for $30 at a local supermarket is downright terrific! So is the same from a Home Depot or a Best Buy or a Walmart. Or a Red Lobster for easing their tension from trying to get it all together!

Think about when YOU were starting out. Think about the practical things that in the end meant so much. Yes, beautiful piece of crystal is a wonderful gift but just in case that toilet decided to back up and you'd better believe they'd be saying a few special prayers for the one who gave it to them.