Sounds easy, right? Take a dozen pieces or sets of pieces of fruitcake and drop it in the jars and seal tight and wrap. We never do things the easy way. I bought red saran wrap specifically for this gift, and yes, I wrapped the fruitcake, two pieces at a time and dropped it into cute little pint sized mason jars. I ran out of fruitcake around jar 7. I stretched the last pieces by placing single pieces in the saran wrap and jars. But I couldn't give empty jars, and not much stuff was inexpensive that fit in the jars.
I considered candy and may have put some in 1 or 2, but my brother is not a big candy fan. I searched the house and came up with nothing that would fit and/or work. I shopped while he was at work and found nothing. Finally, in desperation for something to put in these darned jars, I took the money in my purse, sorted it out. I placed a dollar bill in one, wrapped in saran wrap. Then I pulled out the coins, and since I was being silly, placed two cents in another saran wrap and jar. After those two, I did a couple more with some silver coinage, each in saran wrap and twist tied closed.
Then I sealed these jars up tight, put them back in their case and proceeded to wrap them multiple times, including a great deal of newspaper. This was one of the gifts I had the most fun wrapping, but the point of doing this is not just to make it difficult for the other person to open, but to have fun wrapping the gift and even more fun when you sit back to watch them open a dozen cute little mason jars to figure out what their gift is.
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