Disclaimer: this post will assume that you are not overly crafty or you could just make everyone on your list a hat and be done.
You are in college, so your budget for gifts is pretty much 00 dollars and 00 cents. I promise that you will be breaking this budget, although maybe not by as much as you had feared. The first thing to do is go buy a pack of Christmasy blank cards - like the kind that come in sets of 20 at Walmart. Write a nice, handwritten note for everyone on your list.
Now, divide your list into three categories:
1: people who drink coffee. Go to World Market and get these people mugs - they have a bunch of designs there and the mugs are usually 5 bucks. Sign up for a membership and they give you 20% off, but give them an old email address because they will spam you.
2: People who don't drink coffee and are not children. Get these people novelty items that no one really has any use for, but that are fun to open and think "what the heck?" (like hats with attached beards for the wannabe hipsters).
3: People who are children and thus are not really people but are labeled as such anyway. Children's paperbacks are dirt cheap on Amazon. Get magic treehouse or animal ark and add some candy to the package so that it isn't entirely educational.
There is also the secret fourth category of people who it is impossible to shop for because they will see through the tackiness/cheapness of the above gifts and will not think that your nice personal card makes up for it. I can't help you with these people. You might just have to spend money on them.
Happy shopping!
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