A lifetime of book recommendations

 Your 1-minute-a-week shortcut to
always having awesome gift ideas well in advance.

Hi gift-givers! Better Gift Coach is your master gift sommelier with an exquisite palate for gift pairings.

So you want to find a thoughtful, yet affordable, complement to the customary (and likely preferred) grad gift of money?

Thanks to Rachel, a subscriber for New York, I have just the pairing for you!

Have you ever wondered if I, the Better Gift Coach, use any of the gift ideas shared in the newsletter for my own gift-giving needs?

Of course! This newsletter and its subscriber-submitted stories have been a gift inspiration goldmine for me too. See the “Subscribers putting BGC gift ideas into action” section for my Father’s Day gift to my dad this year.

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The “Sentimental Book Recommendation Shelf" Gift:

• Unique

• Personalized

• Great group gift

• Gets better with age

• Gives recipients a lasting connection to the people who helped shape them

Assembling the recommendations into a book like Rachel did is a really nice touch, but you could alternatively just present your recipient with the list of books and who recommended them

When seeking book recommendations from others, ask them to also include brief explanations for their submissions such as:

• What they enjoy about the book

• Why they are suggesting the book

• What the book has meant to them

• What they hope the recipient takes away from the book

Great gift for those entering a new chapter of their lives. Possible events to consider:

• Graduation

• Retirement

• Moving away

• Health change

• Loss of a loved one

Alternatively, you could always leave it to the professional book recommenders and subscribe your gift recipient to a book subscription service. Click to see the top book subscription services.

To explore more gift ideas that you can crowdsource with friends/family of a gift recipient, see 🎁Low-cost gift of a lifetime

To explore more graduations ideas, see 🎁Grad gifts for zombie apocalypse...or just adulthood

• What reader(s) do you know whose entering a new chapter of their life?_____

• Who from their life can you reach out to for book suggestions?_____

Forward this email to:

• The avid readers in your life

• Someone with a loved one approaching graduation in the next 1-2 years

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.

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

• Anniversary gifts

• Retirement gifts

• Any memorable gift you’ve received or given

What book(s) would you recommend to a recent school graduate? Reply with your recommendations!

Happily curating your gift idea library,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach

P.S. Reply to this email if you’re seeking a bereavement gift for someone dealing with a loss of a loved one. I’m currently flush with bereavement gift ideas. I was just a guest on the Tendrils of Grief Podcast (click here to listen). This is a phenomenal podcast ‒ pass it along to the folks in your life who are experiencing a loss.

Have you been inspired by a gift idea shared in the BGC newsletter? It would be the highlight of my week to hear from you about it! Here’s who made my week:

Inspired by the Dad quote gift shared in 🎁Dad gifts beyond white New Balances, here’s a photo of the pint glass featuring my Dad’s most infamous quotes that I gave him for Father’s Day. I also had 3 more made for my brothers and me to have one too.

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