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always having awesome gift ideas well in advance.

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This is Better Gift Coach, where you can share the times you gave a gift that turned up the thoughtfulness dial to full blast so we can coach everyone else on how to do the same.

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This week’s awesome gift story is thanks to one of our subscribers, Amanda. In the spirit of Amanda’s gift, see the P.S. for a BGC crossword puzzle. Thanks, Amanda!

Estimated read time: 2 minutes & 21 seconds

The “crossword mama" Gift

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• Free

• Creative, unique

• Tradition potential

• Thoughtful…to the max

• Has the same special sauce as 🎁 Thoughtful, free, ready in 15 and 🎁 $0 cost for memories never lost

Plan ahead - Making a custom crossword puzzle from scratch likely takes time. Give yourself at least a month and do the work in bunches.

Enlist help, share in the credit - consider the opportunity to make this a group gift by asking others to contribute words/clues

Could be a gift that you give to multiple people (families, friends, coworkers)

Free online crossword generators:

• Crossword Labs - no signup required, simple, clean, I used this one

• The Teacher’s Corner - no signup required, more options to customize, busy with online ads

Other games you can create your own customized versions for:

• Trivia

• Mad-Lib

• Pictionary

• Apples to Apples/Cards Against Humanity

• Word search (free generator - The Word Search)

• Who on your gift list enjoys crossword puzzles (or similar games)? _____

• Who could you enlist to help you create the game? _____

• How much time should you give yourself to create this? _____

Forward this gift idea to:

• Someone who appreciates family history and lore

• Someone who has a loved one who loves crosswords (or similar games)

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

• Teachers

Thank you!

Hope your day is a 9-letter word for very good,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach

P.S. See below for the very first BGC crossword puzzle. Enjoy!

Crossword Clues:

1. Not always

2. As ___ crow flies

3. Better than better

4. You read BGC for ideas for ___

5. It can be before you in a question

6. The price of the BGC newsletter

[See the very bottom of this email for the answer key]

SUBSCRIBER PUTTING BGC GIFTS IDEAS INTO ACTION:

A subscriber, Meri, reached out to me a while back seeking gift ideas for her brother’s 60th birthday. She decided to go with the memory slips idea from 🎁 $0 cost for memories never lost. I was so excited when she recently reached back out with an update on how it went:

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