I have a confession...I am not very good at coming up with good gifts for Mother's Day or Father's Day and usually end up getting Barnes and Noble gift cards for everyone. Or sometimes the dad's get the typical ties. I have tried to be frugal and creative, but I frankly seem to have a block when it comes to finding the perfect, frugal, thoughtful, fun gift for my dad or my father-in-law.

One year I bought my dad a tie and some golf balls and my sister got him a shadowbox with his t-shirt and tickets from the Final Four...see how pathetic I am?!

So, this Thrifty Thursday, I am asking...nee begging you all to share with me your fun frugal Father's day gift ideas. What have you done or will you do for your dad's? What great gift ideas do you have? Please share with me and my other readers, and hopefully I will get enough ideas that I can post them up here for all to see next Thursday!

Thank you in advance for getting me out of my gift card slump...

So, April Fools Day tomorrow, huh? GOt any big jokes planned? I have nothing planned and my son just this morning asked me if I was going to so the same trick for dinner as I did last year or if I had something better planned...oh no...I started something last year and I cannot live up...that is where I need your ideas!

Every year when she was alive, my aunt Cathy would do the same April Fools joke: put a rubber band on the kitchen sink sprayer so the first person to turn it on would get sprayed. And every year my Papou (that means grandpa in Greek) would humor her and get sprayed adn act surprised. This went on for 50 years...yes 50.

Two years ago on April 8, Cathy passed away, so last April Fools I was feeling nostalgic and felt I had to do something big in her honor...

Last year I made little "cupcakes" for dinner and "french fries" for dessert. The cupcakes were actually meatloaf with pink colored mashed potato "frosting" and the fries were actually pillsbury dough bakes and sprinkled with sugar. Here is a picture:

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How is the world do I top that (with minimal cost)? Ideas welcome! In fact, I am begging for ideas...Please...