Middle school gift giving is tough because of the number of different teachers and my kids felt no one else was doing it so they didn’t want to look different bringing in gifts. I went with small coffee shop gift cards for their core teachers as the best solution as it was affordable and low profile.

Feel your pain on the high cost of tree removal - we had to remove a ton a few years back as part of a much needed and much delayed septic replacement- talk about the least sexy way to spend a huge chunk of $$$!