This is Better Gift Coach, where your graduating class has reconvened to vote for you to be most likely to give the best gifts. In your acceptance speech, please feel free to thank your gift coach…and encourage everyone to subscribe.

Today’s topic is graduation gifts, but before we get to that…

I have something supercalifragilisticexpialidocious that a subscriber shared with me, and with your help, I’d like us to make it even better.

Reply with keepsake ideas for Megan:

A BGC subscriber, Megan, emailed me the following:

Wow! After congratulating Megan, thanking them for sharing this story with me, and suggesting saving their wedding menu for a future gift, I learned that they plan to elope somewhere abroad later this year. Megan does like the idea of intentionally saving keepsakes from their trip for future gifts, although, and suggested saving their airline tickets or the menu from the post-ceremony restaurant (both great ideas).

BGC community ‒ please reply to this email with more keepsake ideas from Megan’s memorable trip. Life advice on how to make the most out of a first year of marriage is also welcomed! Really, anything to help Megan is fair game.

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THE GIFT STORY

🎁THE GIFT:

The “adulthood in-a-box graduation" Gift

Your stories inspire others
to be better gift-givers.
Reply with your story of a gift given/received
~ or ~ click the button below

🌮 WHY THIS GIFT IS GREAT:

• Useful

• Turnkey gift

• Often unwisely overlooked

• Something can give alongside money

MAKE THIS GIFT YOUR OWN

💡TIPS FOR YOUR GIFT:

Money is the most popular grad gift:

• According to the National Retail Federation, in 2022 83% of people plan to give cash and/or gift cards for their graduation gifts.

• I couldn’t dig up stats on what gifts graduates want, but I’m fairly confident that grads also prefer cash/check/venmo and/or gift cards (and here’s how to make gift cards fun).

BGC picks for gifts alternatives to giving money or to only giving money:

• Starter/Dorm Kits:

  • First aid kits

  • Complete tool kits

  • Starter kitchen set

  • Starter laundry kit

  • Starter cleaning kit

  • Roadside emergency kit

  • Starter kitchen cleaning set

• Career survival kits (teacher, nurse, etc.)

• Other:

  • Open when letters (incoming college students or entering adulthood)

  • Subscription boxes (out-of-the-box or make-your-own) – Continually keeps gift-giver and recipient connected

Please reply with any questions/thoughts

🚀PUTTING THE GIFT IDEA INTO ACTION:

• Who are you needing a graduation gift for this year?___

• Are you comfortable just giving them money?___

📂 If this gift idea is save-worthy, create a “Gift Ideas” inbox folder & file it away for future use ~or~ find it again in our library.

COMMUNITY FUN 

▶️FORWARD THIS GIFT IDEA TO:

• Someone with a niece/nephew graduating this year

And introduce them to your favorite 1-minute-a-week shortcut to always having awesome gift ideas well in advance. They can read past editions and subscribe here.

👂LET'S HEAR FROM YOU:

🔍SEEKING GIFT STORIES FOR:

Please reply to this email if you have stories of awesome gifts to share with the community that fall under the below topics:

• Gifts for teachers

• Mother’s day gifts (never too early for gift ideas to make moms smile)

Thank you!

😆GIF/MEME:

Thanks in advance for your ideas for Megan,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach

P.S. Click here to review past newsletter editions that I’ve tagged as potential graduation gift ideas.

P.P.S. Thanks to your encouragement in last week’s poll, my April Fools Day prank on my wife went swimmingly. I programmed her iPhone to replace the word “ok” with “heyyy macarena”. Here’s a screenshot from one of her text convos with a friend:

SUBSCRIBER PUTTING OUR IDEAS INTO ACTION:

After learning about the iPhone text replacement prank from 🎁 April Fools pranks that are gifts…

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