With Mother’s Day just around the corner (and the cost of living on the rise), many of us are likely planning a cosy Mother’s Day at home. Here are 3 great ideas to make Mother's Day special at home on a budget. Whether you’re a pet mum, a plant mum, a mum to little humans, or someone planning a special day for a special mum, we hope these tips are helpful and we wish you an absolutely incredible Mother’s Day ahead.

1. Help your mum with Mother’s Day cleaning in advance

If your mum is hosting a Mother’s Day event, pop around for a visit in the days leading up to it and help her by getting the house clean. This might be a mix of vacuuming, cleaning showers, windows, and mirrors, wiping down surfaces with a quality all-purpose cleaner, and other cleaning tasks and odd jobs around the house. Even if she’s not hosting an event for Mother’s Day, a little help goes a long way - visit her soon and offer to help her around the house anyway.

2. Organise a special day to spend time with your mum

This shouldn’t come as a surprise, but a lot of mums just want to spend time with their families on Mother’s Day (and in general). Obviously, they have their own lives and hobbies, but there’s nothing more important to them than spending quality time with the people they love. Rather than forking out money for expensive gifts on Mother’s Day, you could simply treat mum to a nice homemade dinner and organise a day in advance to take her out for a picnic or ask if you can visit her for the weekend sometime in the next few weeks. She will likely appreciate these gestures much more than lavish gifts.

3. Suggest budget-friendly gifts for your kids

As mums, we like to think that our kids know us better than anyone, but sometimes they may need a little nudge in the right direction. Keeping in mind that they may be on a budget, they will still likely want to get you some kind of gift. Instead of telling them you’d like “nothing at all”, you can simply suggest budget-friendly gifts that you’ll actually use and enjoy like a thoughtful homemade art piece, the chance to spend quality time together, a new book, something thrifted that they think you’ll love or even some inexpensive useful household items like affordable cleaning supplies.

These are just a few ways to make Mother's Day special at home on a budget. Hopefully, this has inspired people to do something really wonderful to celebrate their mum this Mother’s Day.