Ive often been told that gift vouchers are thoughtless, easy gifts & also one in which the recipient can see how much you spent but what if it's a gift card for a specific brand the person likes or for a specific store like a book store if you know they read alot or a video game store if they play alot of games.
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I've always thought that people who say gift cards/certificates are thoughtless are full of crap. It's true that it's an "easy" gift, but you're giving the person a gift but also allowing them to buy what THEY want, versus you buying them something they could potentially not like. If you buy them a gift certificate for a store you know they frequent a lot, I see no problem in giving them that.
Honestly, for my baby shower, I asked for gift cards for one store so I could buy the essentials, and even though no one gave me anything over $40, I still managed to buy the strolled/carrier, bassinet and some clothes and accessories for basically free. It seriously helped me out a lot.
I've always thought that people who say gift cards/certificates are thoughtless are full of crap. It's true that it's an "easy" gift, but you're giving the person a gift but also allowing them to buy what THEY want, versus you buying them something they could potentially not like. If you buy them a gift certificate for a store you know they frequent a lot, I see no problem in giving them that.
Honestly, for my baby shower, I asked for gift cards for one store so I could buy the essentials, and even though no one gave me anything over $40, I still managed to buy the strolled/carrier, bassinet and some clothes and accessories for basically free. It seriously helped me out a lot.
Baby shower gifts?
Christine
I am going to a baby shower in the next couple of weeks and wondered about gifts for the mother as well as the baby?
Anyone have any good suggestions - something a little different perhaps?
Thanks!
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Dear Christine*****
When it comes to mom, everyone forgets, as they are so fascinated and excited about the new baby, remember all mom needs during this period of time is "SLEEP". What my sister-in-laws and I did was we printed a whole lot of "time-out" vouchers.
You have to have babysitters to do this gift. At the end of the month whoevers turn it was to babysit would go over to mom's place and fetch baby. Baby is a year old now and just loves time-out too. Looks like we will do this for a loooooooooooong time. We all love her to bits.
Obviously we did buy gifts for them, but we had chosen a baby shop and sent a letter to all who were at the babyshower of all the things she did not have. All those items were put on a shelf for the ladies to buy and each gift was wrapped in nappies with diaper pins, dummies, rattles etc pinned to them. Being family we bought all the expensive items, like the pram, cradle, etc. Hope this helps!!!
Dear Christine*****
When it comes to mom, everyone forgets, as they are so fascinated and excited about the new baby, remember all mom needs during this period of time is "SLEEP". What my sister-in-laws and I did was we printed a whole lot of "time-out" vouchers.
You have to have babysitters to do this gift. At the end of the month whoevers turn it was to babysit would go over to mom's place and fetch baby. Baby is a year old now and just loves time-out too. Looks like we will do this for a loooooooooooong time. We all love her to bits.
Obviously we did buy gifts for them, but we had chosen a baby shop and sent a letter to all who were at the babyshower of all the things she did not have. All those items were put on a shelf for the ladies to buy and each gift was wrapped in nappies with diaper pins, dummies, rattles etc pinned to them. Being family we bought all the expensive items, like the pram, cradle, etc. Hope this helps!!!
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