It’s Mother’s Day again, and with any luck, this holiday will be better for you and your mom than last year. Your mom may be vaccinated. Maybe you are, too, and you can safely celebrate together.

If you’re looking for ideas, we have some low-cost suggestions on how to celebrate Mother’s Day, which falls on May 9 this year.

In any other year, this might feel like the cheapest gift ever, but after the year everyone has had, and to some degree, are still having, it would be a really nice gift, says Dawn-Marie Joseph, founder of Estate Planning & Preservation in Williamston, Michigan, and a mom herself. She has five adult children and six grandchildren.

“Taking your mother on a simple walk outside this Mother’s Day would not only cost you nothing, but it would make your mother smile for a week,” Joseph says.

This is another idea of Joseph’s, and it’s a solid one.

If you’re a kid reading this, you know that there have to be a gazillion things around the house you could do for your mom.

If you’re an adult, well, hasn’t your mom been bugging you to clean out your old bedroom for years, so she can turn it into an exercise room? Or maybe you know that the attic needs emptying out? Or maybe your mom would appreciate some help with the yard or flower garden.

Helping your mom should be seriously cheap, unless you hire a professional landscaper to help out with the flower garden.

It also “allows the two of you to spend quality time together,” Joseph says.

If you’re both vaccinated, and depending on the rules in your area, this might be a safe activity and a welcome one, if your mom hasn’t been to a restaurant since pre-pandemic days.

If you’re not feeling ready to go out yet, and especially if you, your mom and the family are vaccinated, why not invite your mom over – or invite yourself over and take over the kitchen – and make a nice meal?

You could go for something fancy, or maybe cook a family favorite that your mom made when you were a kid.

This is, of course, assuming you can cook. If the smoke alarm tends to go off when you’re in the kitchen, bring takeout.

“The absolute best gift I’ve received on Mother’s Day is a handmade coupon book from my kids that includes creative and adorably decorated slips of paper redeemable for all kinds of things, like a back rub, 10 minutes of silence, sleeping in, kids make breakfast, walking the dog, any chore of my choosing, a fully prepped and planned family hike and picnic,” says Emily Greene, a mother of three in Bethesda, Maryland, and the author of “School, Disrupted: Rediscovering the Joy of Learning in a Pandemic-Stricken World.”

She has three sons, ages 17, 14 and 8, and she says the coupon book has been such a hit that her boys have been giving her one for every Mother’s Day for some time now.

It’s also a gift that adults could give their mothers. You just have to be really prepared to actually come over and clean out the garage, run errands for your mom or whatever you put in your coupon book.

Greene likes the idea of younger children or adult children planning something along the lines of a family hike and picnic.

“Best day ever for mom,” she says. If you have a little extra dough, you could actually buy your mom a picnic basket with a fully packed lunch inside, Greene adds.

“Also, as part of the picnic, the dad or the oldest child could be the designated picture-taker, so Mom is actually in some of the photos,” Greene advises.

Wendy Terrill, a retirement planning counselor and the founder of Assurance & Guarantee in Burlington, North Carolina, says sentimental gifts are always a great idea.

Which, yes, is obvious, but Terrill has a suggestion for coming up with a sentimental present. Attach it to a sentimental memory.

“For this Mother’s Day, think of something your mother used to do or maybe still does,” Terrill suggests. And then base the gift on that.

Terrill says that she used to sing to her boys, who are now both in their 20s, “You Are My Sunshine,” every morning to wake them up. Last year, one of her sons gave her a little music box that plays “You Are My Sunshine.”

If your mom used to plant a certain flower, consider getting her those flowers this Mother’s Day.

“Remember, money is not the important thing,” Terrill says. “It is the sentiment. Something as simple as a picture of you or your family could go a long way and cost nothing.”

Subscription gifts can be expensive, but it isn’t like we’re suggesting you buy your mom a car, and so maybe it still belongs on this list.

Greene likes the idea of buying your mom a yearlong subscription to a service that she’ll love and “that will keep adding value for a whole year but that she might not be willing to spend the money on for herself.”

She recommends something like Obé Fitness, MasterClass or Gaiam for yoga as some suggestions.

First of all, we know that nothing can be perfect and everybody’s family situation is different. Maybe you’re a 14-year-old reading this, and maybe you’re 41. Your mom might live in your house, across town or across the country or world.

So take this schedule with a grain of salt if it isn’t feasible for you. But an ideal Mother’s Day schedule might look like this: