Mum shares creative way to give money as a present - and people think it's 'genius'

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When it comes to giving your kids presents, as they get older it can be difficult to find the perfect gift. Sometimes there's nothing they need, or they're just too picky.

So the obvious solution might be to give them some money and let them choose something for themself. But giving money as a gift can be a little dull - leaving them with nothing to unwrap on their special day.

Or at least that was the case until recently. One parent has shared a creative way to make giving money as a present a lot more interesting and all you need are some balloons and a box.

The idea came from Sam Emmott who shared a video of it on the Facebook group, Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK. The post was captioned: "I tried to think of a fancy way to wrap a