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  After you buy holiday gifts for your significant other, parents and kids, there might be little money left to purchase anything for your friends. They might not even expect any gifts, but if you save the money you spend buying coffee from specialty stores for one week you can afford it. Surprise your friends by using a little ingenuity, time and about $20.
  
  

Valentine's Day

• Give DVDs to your friends in honor of friendship and love on Valentine's Day. Movies about the bond of friendship, the sacrifices friends make for each other and joy found only with a friend include "The Goonies", "Beaches", "Stand By Me", "Toy Story", "Brokedown Palace", "Fried Green Tomatoes", "Now and Then", "Waiting to Exhale", "Scent of a Woman" and "Wayne's World".
  
  

Mother's Day

• Buy a pastel pink vase, a blue vase and a purple vase. Use white paint to put your friend's first initial on the pink vase, second initial on the blue vase and third initial on the purple vase. Place one daisy in each vase before presenting her with the gift. Or buy her an apron that will make her want to cook. There are tons of fashionable aprons in a variety of styles and colors that can take the place of the plain, boring apron of yesterday.
  
  

Father's Day

• Give your buddy a set of whiskey stones made from soapstone cubes to cool his liquor for Father's Day. He might enjoy drinking undiluted alcohol after tucking his kids into bed. Or get him a personalized branding iron for the meals he grills for his family.
  
  

Halloween

• Give your friends pretzel rods that you've dipped in white chocolate and decorated like fingers for Halloween. Or fill a black coffee mug with a packet of coffee and a plastic bag of pumpkin candies. Tie a white ribbon that says "Boo" around it to complete the inexpensive gift.
  
  

Christmas

• Give your friends vinyl record coasters for Christmas. Sold six to a package, the coasters are cut from original LP records. The water-resistant coasters make a great conversation starter. On a different note, you could buy or bake a tray of chocolate chip, lemon sugar, oatmeal raisin or butterscotch cookies.