Originally Posted by MistyMarie
I'm on the bench too, but I cannot complain, having gotten my package in out today!
MistyMarie don't stress yourself. I have only been doing this for a short time myself. I buy a few things for my partner. But most of my package comes from what I have at home. I make a couple of home made items. Once in a while I end up with duplicate magazines from the used bookstore and will use them in swap packages. While school supplies were on sale I stocked up on a lot if inexpensive things like plastic pencil boxes, mechanical pencils, crayons, colored pencils, glue and glue sticks, and so on. I get things as the $1 store also and put them all in a box for swaps. I understand the financial concerns as I myself have hardly worked in the last 6 months.