🎁 Viva la mixtape: free, but priceless

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Patrick Kucharson
January 17, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

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Gift idea time! Here’s a story of a
great gift to spark your creativity

 

The “mixtape/playlist" Gift

One year I had a long-running cassette mixtape exchange with Ian, one of my best friends since our schooldays in the 90s. He was an understated sort, so his personality, his obsessions and his quirks really came through in the messy, idiosyncratic mixture of songs he’d patch together. I moved to Australia in the early 2000s. One of my greatest mornings out there – homesick and alone, six months after I'd moved – was when a battered cassette covered in spidery writing appeared in the mail. No note, just a tape. I still have it, safe next to a beaten up Walkman to listen on, filed away for emergencies.

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Want more short stories about mixtape gifts? I had fun reading this collection of them in this Vice.com piece. 

 

Why this gift is great

 

  • Ages like a fine wine

  • Free to create, but priceless in value

  • Does it get more personalized & thoughtful than this?

  • Mixtapes/custom playlists aren’t just for significant others!

 

Brainstorming your version of this gift

 

The art of creating a mixtape:

  • Tie songs to shared memories or a theme

  • Provide a track list (+ personalized commentary for bonus points)

  • The songs are meant to be played in order…take them on a journey

  • See more tips

 

Instructions for creating digital playlists on:

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

 

Making this gift happen 

 

Who is a music lover who you have many shared memories with? ____

 

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  • A music lover

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My attempt to send
you off with a smile

All the best,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach™

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