Scrumptious handwritten gift

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Patrick Kucharson
September 12, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

 

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

 

My attempt to make you smile
before getting to today’s gift ideas

 

Hi gift-givers! As a heartfelt gift to you, I handwrote a recipe for the best gift-giving.

Yummy!

 

One-ish more thing(s)
before today’s gift ideas

 

You want to know when I have a lot of confidence that a particular gift is a winning one?

When two different subscribers from different corners of the world email me on the same day to share the same gift idea.

Thank you to everyone who submitted gift stories! Please keep them coming…

 

Estimated read time: 2 minutes & 23 seconds

 

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

 

The “John Hancock a Recipe" Gift:

GIFT STORY #1:

My mom is a great cook and when my sister and I moved out, we were frequently calling her and asking her for recipes. So one year she sat down and filled two notebooks (one for each of us) with the recipes of our most favorite family meals. She wrote them all by hand!!! I can't imagine how much time she spent on this project. Both my sister and I were tremendously grateful and happy. We now always have the recipes of my mom at hand and enjoy her little comments she left for us to discover.

Petya from Bulgaria

GIFT STORY #2:

One of the best gifts I’ve given was from my grandmother's recipe box. I scanned 3 recipes and sent them to the Printed Gift and they printed them on a tea towel. I gave them to my Mom, sister and cousins. They will cherish them in their kitchen looking at her handwriting and recipes she made often.

Kim from Massachusetts

 

Why this gift is great

 

  • Gets better with time

  • Inks a tangible link between generations

  • Allows them to taste the love/nostalgia AND the food

  • Imperfections that come with handwritten items add charm, character, and authenticity

 

Brainstorming your version of this gift

 

Following Petya’s mom’s playbook, if you have your own recipes that you want to pass on to others:

  1. Handwrite the recipes

  2. Then gift the handwritten recipes (on paper or on other items - see below for ideas for alternative items to print them on)

Following Kim’s playbook, if you can track down recipes written by others, reprint them and gift them to people who will cherish them

Besides paper, here are alternative items you can print handwritten recipes onto:

 

Making this gift happen 

 

  • Do you have your own recipes that you can handwrite?____

  • Do you have other’s handwritten recipes that you can reprint?____

  • What item do you want to print the recipe on?____

 

Spread some love! Share this gift idea

 

Forward this email to:

  • A family matriarch

  • The best cook you know

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.

Inspire others!
Share the stories of your best gifts

 

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:

  • Any kind of handwritten gifts

  • Any memorable gift you’ve received or given

 

Community input on this gift

 

 

My attempt to send
you off with a smile

 

 

May your recipes be free of spelling errors,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach

P.S. Please reply to this email if this gift inspires you to create your own version. Or please share your own story of receiving/giving a similar gift. I’d love to share it with the BGC community!

 

Subscribers putting BGC
gift ideas into action

 

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:

Inspired by 🎁Thoughtful, free, ready in 15…

We recently celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. I had hidden 25 love notes to find the month before the big day. I even took a few with me on vacation. He still has two left to find :)

Marcey from North Carolina

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