Custom T-Shirts Online: Unique yet Cheap Christmas Gifts

Online T-Shirt Websites - Save Money, Make Money, Have Fun

Opher Ganel
Custom T-shirt websites let you design your own custom T-shirts. Wear one-of-a-kind clothes for less than an off-the-rack shirt from the mall, or get that perfect but cheap Christmas gift for a friend or sib. On many of these sites you can even make money from your designs and slogans.

Spreadshirts.com - Cheapest Christmas Gift with Your Custom T-Shirt Design

Spreadshirt.com's standard men's large custom T-shirts start at $8.90 plus as little as $3 to add your design. Think one-of-a-kind Christmas gifts under $12!

Spreadshirt.com also allows you to sell items with your design, setting your own commission up to $20, though high commissions will increase your custom T-shirt price, reducing demand.

Zazzle.com - Highest Payout Potential for Your Custom T-Shirt Design

Zazzle.com offers custom T-shirts from $15.95 with your design. Prefer something else? There's a wide variety of cheap Christmas gift ideas you can put your design on. Choosing an existing design adds a designer royalty to the cost.

Offer your own custom T-shirt design to others through Zazzle.com and set your own royalty. Use the 10% default royalty or as high as 99% (just don't expect to sell many custom T-shirts at $1435.50). For royalties over 20% Zazzle.com charges a 5% fee.

Threadless.com - Custom T-Shirts Designed and Rated by Users

Threadless.com offers T-shirts from $5 - unique yet ridiculously cheap Christmas gifts. Designs are posted and rated by users. Highly rated custom T-shirt designs are printed and sold by threadless.com.

Post your own design and you may make a bundle. Winning designs earn $2,000 cash and a $500 Threadless.com gift certificate. Each custom T-shirt reprint adds $500. If your custom T-shirt wins a "Bestee" Threadless.com will pay up to $10,000 more. Artistically challenged? Threadless.com pays $500 per accepted slogan.

Uberprints.com - Custom T-shirts, Cheap Christmas Gifts Designed by You

Uberprints.com offers a variety of T-shirt qualities and colors as background for your ultimate custom T-shirt design. A men's large custom T-shirt (standard weight, digital printing) costs $15. Order 12 or more custom T-shirts for your kid's soccer team, or as a cheap Christmas gift for a bunch of friends (who don't know each other) and screen printing can be 30% cheaper. Uberprints.com won't sell your custom T-shirts on their site, but perhaps you can sell them yourself.

Custom T-shirts and Much More - Unique but Cheap Christmas Gifts; Business Opportunity with Little Risk

Bottom line, sites where you design custom T-shirts offer the ultimate in unique yet cheap Christmas gifts. Royalties and commissions selling your custom T-shirt designs or other products (calendars, magnets, mugs, skateboards, postage stamps, etc.) are a great business opportunity. Just design your custom T-shirt etc. The website will accept and fulfill the orders, collect the money, and send you your cut, perhaps more than enough for next year's Christmas gifts.

Published by Opher Ganel

Researcher, teacher, photographer, storyteller. Creativity is my escape from the day-to-day.  View profile

  • Custom T-shirts make a unique Christmas gift without breaking your budget.
  • Many custom T-shirt sites let you earn commissions from your designs.
  • Custom T-shirts let you express yourself in what you wear or in your Christmas gifts.

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  • John Hill1/4/2012

    That is a great idea. I also found a website offering this type of gifts. You can visit it here at: Custom Rhinestone T Shirts.

  • Morgan6/5/2009

    great idea for any gift! (=

  • Jo Brielyn12/27/2008

    Cool ideas, Opher! Thanks for the sites. I'll keep these in mind for future gift ideas.

  • Opher Ganel12/16/2008

    There is always a tension between trying to save money and trying to maintain quality and uniqueness. Iron-on transfers don't tend to do well after repeated wash/dry cycles. Also, you're limited to the transfers you find at the store. Puff-painting allows more creativity, but requires more hands-on artistic ability than designing something unique using graphic software that most PCs have these days. I'm also not sure how well the paint will hold up after repeated laundering. Having said that, the options you suggest are certainly valid ones for those who prefer them.

  • Angel Sharum12/16/2008

    I will check out each of these places soon, Opher. Thanks for letting us know about them!

  • Cyndee Kromminga12/16/2008

    Great idea! Opher

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