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

In addition to the newsletter, check out our
gift-giving playbooks and gift guides 🎁📕.

Hi gift-givers! This week’s gift will make them boogie-woogie-woogie…or maybe cry…or likely both. They’ll likely experience a symphony of good vibes due to your thoughtfulness and creativity. Casey Kasem would be proud.

Simply reply to this email with a song you’d like included in the BGC Community Gift-Wrapping Playlist 2023. 

Once I receive your submissions, I’ll put the playlist together, illustrate a fun CD cover, and share it so everyone can listen to it while they wrap their holiday gifts. Please don’t feel limited to only holiday songs!

I asked my mom to provide track #1. She selected one that, in her words, is “not popular, but has beautiful words”. Thanks, Mom!

Track #1: “Someday at Christmas” by Stevie Wonder

Here’s the link to the Better Gift Coach Community playlist from a year ago!

Estimated read time: 2 minutes & 23 seconds

The “playlist of a lifetime" Gift:

• Basically free!

• I bet someone who “already has everything” doesn’t have this

• This gift takes the one highlighted in 🎁 Viva La Mixtape and crowdsources it. Brilliant!

Instructions for creating digital playlists on:

• Spotify

• Pandora

• Apple Music

• Amazon Music

• YouTube (YouTube is the only free platform)

Old school touch to a digital playlist:

1. Find an empty cassette tape or CD case

2. Write out the playlist on the inside cover

3. Print out a QR code that directs to the online digital playlist

4. ~ or ~ just pay someone to create you a fancy one

Additional recipients to consider for this gift:

• Parent

• Grandparent

• Sibling

• Friend

• Co-worker

Crowdsource gift idea occasions:

• Holidays

• Birthdays

• Retirements

• Graduations

• Anniversaries

• Moving-aways

To explore similar gift ideas that you can crowdsource with others, see 🎁 The “crowdsourced memories" Gift and 🎁 A lifetime of book recommendations.

• Who in your life would love receiving this gift?___

• Who can you enlist as a connector to other potential contributors?___

For making this and other gifts happen, consider BGC’s playbook for confident gift-giving that saves you time & stress: 4-Step Playbook for Giving Better Gifts in a Busy World. Interested, but not sure? Here’s a free preview of the playbook.

Forward this email to:

• The best networker(s) you know

• Someone with a loved one approaching a milestone celebration

PLUS win a reward for introducing new subscribers to your favorite 1-minute-a-week shortcut to always having awesome gift ideas well in advance.

The Most Thoughtful Gift Ideas For 16 People on Your Holiday List is also available for purchase for $9.99

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:

• Last-minute gifts

• Thank you letters

• Any memorable gift you’ve received or given

Reply to this email with a song you’d like included in the gift-wrapping playlist!

Supporting your rise to gift-giving rockstardom,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach

P.S. Who’s brainstorming a holiday gift for a teacher? Reply to this email and I’ll be happy to share some recommendations (and tips for gifts to avoid).

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:

Kelley from Arizona just put up Christmas decorations and took a photo of her grandmother’s Christmas jewelry art gift that she shared with us in 🎁 Deck the halls with underutilized keepsakes. What a brilliantly creative and thoughtful gift. Thanks for sharing, Kelley!

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