9 Frugal Father’s Day Gift Ideas For Your Dad

If you’re a little strapped for cash right now, you might be looking for some cheap, but thoughtful, gift ideas for your dad.

Or, perhaps you are having trouble coming up with gift ideas for your dad (who has everything).

So, here are a couple of frugal gifts that you can get your dad for Father’s Day.

Gift Ideas For Your Dad

Buy Him A Card

A classic gift that you can get is a Father’s Day card from the store. And just because it’s a card doesn’t mean that it can’t be personal. You can always either customize the card with poems and drawings.

However, if you want to take a more custom approach, you can either try adding your own touch to blank cards or creating your own!

Create A Family Album

Family albums also make great Father’s Day gifts because they’re easy to make and aren’t too expensive.

You can visit your local CVS, Walgreens, or Walmart to print out the photos. Also, you can order your prints through online photo printing services such as Shutterfly and Snapfish.

Or, if you have photo paper and enough ink, you can print off your photos at home.

Get A Gift Card

Another gift idea that you can get your dad is a gift card. Here are different types of gift cards that you can get him below:

• restaurant gift card
• tech store gift card
• gas gift card
• Amazon gift card
• XBOX gift card
• iTunes gift card

Make His Favorite Meal

If you’re a pretty decent cook, you can never go wrong with cooking your dad his favorite meal on Father’s Day.

And, if you want to make the event a little fancier, you can create invitations, dress up the table, and serve up his favorite dessert too!

Or, if you are both feeling adventurous, you can try to make him a dish from food that’s already in his pantry. If you’re going down this route, I would highly suggest that you use Supercook.

Spend Time With Him Outside

Soak up some vitamin D with your dad and enjoy the great outdoors! Some activities that you can do for the day is:

• bird watching
• cloud watching
• fishing
• having a picnic
• hiking
• riding your bikes

Clean His Vehicle

Another great thing that you can do if you don’t have a physical Father’s Day gift is to clean your dad’s vehicle. It’s great way to show your dad your love while also being frugal (*although certain areas might have restrictions on if you can wash cars at home).

Some things that you might need are a towel, sponges, a bucket, window cleaner, car interior cleaner, a vacuum, soap, and car wax.

Finish Items From His Honey-Do Lists Or Chores

This activity can also serve as a great gift idea for your dad. And that is to finish some tasks on his honey-do list or some of his chores. Some jobs that you could take over is completing yard work, cleaning up the garage, painting the walls, cleaning the gutters, putting together new furniture, or replacing filters.

You can also do something as simple as replace the batteries to the smoke detectors in the house or clean up the kitchen.

But either way, I’m pretty sure that your dad (or father figure) will appreciate anything that you do!

Watch A Movie/His Favorite Movie

Another frugal gift idea is to go watch a movie. You guys can go watch a movie in a theater, rent a movie, or stream one of his favorites online.

And don’t worry if you aren’t subscribed to any of the current streaming services, you can try looking for some of his favorites on free streaming services like these.

Spend Time Doing His Favorite Hobby

There’s nothing better than someone spending time with you while you do something that you enjoy. That’s why taking time to be with your dad, and participate in his favorite hobby, is a great thing to do!

So, some of these activities can be possible gift ideas for your dad.

You can spend time with him by:

• watching a game
• carving
• working out
• playing video games/board games
• painting/drawing
• playing sports
• cooking/baking
• gardening
• crafting

Or, if you’re stuck on what to do, you can try some of these activities.

I hope that you all enjoyed this post! I think that all of these can double as great last minute gift ideas for Father’s Day too. However, if you don’t like these ideas, you might like ones from this post.

Hannah Roberts

Hannah Roberts is the creator of Do. Live. Study. She loves to learn new things and hopes to help others as they go throughout their journey as an adult. You can connect with her below.