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Lets first decide what we mean by cheap. Do we mean inexpensive or do we mean the I-don't-care kind of cheap. Of course you must care or why bother at all. First of all, no one really likes cheap Christmas gifts, if by cheap we mean a gift with little thought and bought with little or no money. Having said that, however, there are gifts that are appropriate and are heartfelt that are given impromptu that took only a second or two of time and cost practically nothing.

Gifts such as these are items that once were purchased on sale for such occasions; possibly the are Christmas gifts were bought during last year's after-Christmas sale with a 75 percent discount. You now have them beautifully wrapped and labeld and are in the closet just waiting for that person accidentally left off your list. These people are people you care about and who you would not give a gift, not because they are unworthy, but because you did not want to obligate them to give you a gift.

Gift giving should be spontaneous and not regimented, but sad to say, it often is thought of as obligatory. That kind of thinking goes along with the griping and complaining about the commercialization of Christmas. Neither should gift giving be done maliciously. But it sometimes is. By this I mean it should not be the means to play a prank on someone by giving them a something you know they would find to be offensive, or using a gift as a hate gift. A stale fruitcake or a dead fish would come under this category and truly is a 'cheap gift' in the cheapest sense of the word.

That out of the way, I will now assume that the 'cheap gift' is legitimate and is given to someone out of a desire to do something good for them, or to say, I care about you and I value and I want you to have this as a token of my appreciation, my sincere love and regard. It will then become a gesture of good friendship. Price will not enter the picture; appropriateness will.

Then, what have we and for whom? For a person who lives alone and is nearby, a telephone call saying, Christmas eve dinner is on me. Depending on circumstances, you will either have them at your place or you will deliver the meal to them. Or, for a new family who has moved next door, you can recycle that one too many Poinsettia plant you received from your sister who works in a flower shop. It's Christmas day and they gave to their employees the left overs.

If none of these suggestions are for you, how about one of the Christmas tree ornaments you have been making all

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