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🎁 Making gift cards fun

🎁 Making gift cards fun

Patrick Kucharson
February 28, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

This is Better Gift Coach, where we provide you with fun to sprinkle onto your boring gifts.

BGC Fun Sprinkles For Boring Gifts in action

Estimated read time: 2 minutes & 53 seconds

THE GIFT STORY

🎁THE GIFT:

The “gift card’s fun cousin" Gift

Gift cards are generally practical, but boring gifts to give. As their gifts, my nieces & nephews often ask for gift cards. It makes sense – their generation doesn’t shop in-person (so cash isn’t all that useful) and they don’t have credit cards to make online purchases. I’m happy to get them what they want…but I came up with a plan for maintaining my identify as a fun uncle (funcle) by ordering them personalized Visa gift cards. In addition, instead of having them unwrap the gift cards, I’m going to shove them into balloons for them to pop.

This is one of my own ideas/brainstorms

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🌮 WHY THIS GIFT IS GREAT:

Practical, but fun
Gift cards are easy to ship
Visa gift cards are more liquid than a specific retailer’s gift card
Transforms traditionally “thoughtless” gift into a very thoughtful one
Gift cards were 2022’s most popular gift (so making them better is meaningful)
Prioritizes getting recipients what they want…while injecting some additional fun

It’s only $4 to add my son’s photo to a gift card? Yes, please!

MAKE THIS GIFT YOUR OWN

💡TIPS FOR YOUR GIFT:

Keep this gift idea in mind for graduation season!!!

For creating your own personalized gift cards:

Click here to visit giftcards.com to personalize a gift card
Creating one takes less than 5 minutes and costs ~$4 extra

For more ideas for creative gift card presentations, check out this list

For links to free gift card holder downloads: Giftcards.com & Pinterest

Free downloadable taco card holder

For fitting gift cards into balloons, check out this HIGHLY entertaining video of these two quirky geniuses demonstrating how to fit gift cards (and other common gift items) into balloons. At the end, they try to fit a frying pan.

Please reply with any questions

🧭GIFT-GIVING GUIDING PRINCIPLES:

For anyone thinking “I don’t like giving gift cards because it feels like trading money or that it’s less thoughtful” –

Hopefully, today’s edition helps alleviate those concerns, but know that I can totally relate to this feeling. When I feel that these notions are influencing my gift-giving decision, I do my best to stick to this gift-giving guiding principle:

When gift-giving, prioritize giving someone what they want over what you want to give them.

🚀PUTTING THE GIFT IDEA INTO ACTION:

Who on your gift list is graduating this year?
Who on your gift list typically asks for gift cards?
If you were to order them a personalized gift card, what image/message would you use?

📂 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

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Anyone who has teens on their gift list

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