🎁 Big hugs from kids AND their parents

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Patrick Kucharson
October 18, 2022 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

This is Better Gift Coach, where we give you gift ideas so uncomplicated that Avril Lavigne will never write a song about us.

Estimated read time: 1 minute & 28 seconds

📊GIFT SCALE:

🎁THE GIFT:

The “shopping trip" Gift

One year around Thanksgiving, my sister was in from out of town and her and her boyfriend took our two kids shopping to pick out their future Christmas gifts. My husband and I enjoyed a quiet Sunday afternoon while my kids had so much fun with their aunt picking out exactly what they wanted for under the tree.   

Claire from Wisconsin

Content tags: experience, tradition, kids

🌮WHY THIS GIFT IS GREAT:

  • Kids get exactly what they want

  • Shopping trip is a bonding experience

  • Combo of a material gift & an experience

  • HUGE BONUS – free afternoon for parents!!

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YOUR VERSION OF THIS GIFT

💡TIPS FOR YOUR GIFT:

  • Plan ahead – families have busy schedules

  • How to Have a Successful Trip to the Toy Store (with a kid)

  • Also works well for grandkids, friends’ kids, godchildren, etc.

  • Could become an annual tradition (see other tradition-worthy gifts)

  • Take note of the other items they wanted, but didn’t get. Save those for a future gift (e.g. birthdays) ~ or ~ pass those hints along to others

  • Toys "R" Us is back!!! (see locations), but also consider local toy stores, Five Below, Target, sporting goods stores, malls (remember those?), outlets, and book stores

🤔GIFT BRAINSTORMING PROMPTS:

  • Who could you do this gift for?_____

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  • Faunties and funcles (fun aunts and uncles)

  • Grandparents of younger children

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