🎁 Gifts that overcome distances

Author

Patrick Kucharson
January 31, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

This is Better Gift Coach, where we give you long-distance gifts so good at making your presence felt that Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze would stop their pottery session to learn from you.

Talk about awesome long-distance group friendship gifts…following our recent 🎁 Viva la mixtape edition, the Better Gift Coach community made a playlist together that we can all enjoy. So many of you responded with suggested tracks (thank you) that, even after trimming the list down, the final tracklist couldn’t fit on one CD’s worth of real estate. So folks, just like the great Forest Gump soundtrack…we had no choice but to make this a double (virtual) CD. See the PS section for a tracklist and link.

Estimated read time: 1 minute & 57 seconds

THE GIFT STORY:

🎁THE GIFT:

The “long-distance bear" Gift

My brother was on his 4th or 5th deployment to Iraq (this was in 2008-ish). I missed him dearly. I was home from college to spend Christmas with my parents, my brother’s wife, and their 2 daughters. After we opened all the gifts, his wife told me that there was one more just for me. It was a Build-a-Bear dressed as a soldier that played a recording of my brother telling me that he loved me, missed me, and to take care of his bear. I hadn’t heard his voice in so long.

Kim from Michigan (xolovekim.com)

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YOUR VERSION OF THIS GIFT:

💡TIPS FOR YOUR GIFT:

My takeaway after an hour of combing through the online lists of gifts for long-distance relationships (romantic, family, friends, etc.), is that the best long-distance gifts make you continually feel much closer than the miles that separate you.

For my favorite long-distance relationship gifts that I found during my research:

For past BGC editions to revisit for long-distance relationship gift inspiration:

For long-distance relationship gift ideas that are experiences:

🤔GIFT BRAINSTORMING PROMPTS:

  • When is the next occasion in which you’ll be giving a long-distance gift?____

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COMMUNITY FUN:

▶️FORWARD THIS GIFT IDEA TO:

  • Anyone with a loved one who lives in another state

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👂LET'S HEAR FROM YOU:

😆GIF/MEME:

All the best,Patrick KucharsonBetter Gift Coach™

P.S. Here’s the link to the Better Gift Coach Community Playlist. See below for the tracklist and names of those who contributed. Let us know what you think! Enjoy!

A SUBSCRIBER'S REVIEW (yes, I read them)

"Hi! Like you, I still have some treasured mixtapes given to me by friends in the 90s. A few years ago, I recreated one of those playlists and sent it back to the original gift giver on a flash drive. She was thrilled! Somehow, much of that music had disappeared from her collection over the years and she was happy to hear it again. She also really enjoyed seeing a time capsule of her past self."

- Jennifer

A recycled mixtape time capsule! Brilliant. Jennifer, you just elevated this community’s mixtape gift brainstorming to a whole new level! Thanks!

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