Virtually unboxing hometown nostalgia

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

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Hi gift-givers! Your opportunity to gift the comforts of home to someone living many miles away may be only a few clicks away.

Firstly, Happy Hanukkah! 🕎

Secondly, forget about silent nights – we're turning up the volume on our gift-wrapping sessions! 

Thanks to everyone who replied to last week’s email with song submissions for the Better Gift Coach Community Gift-Wrapping Playlist 2023

For anyone looking to get into that gift-wrapping groove, here’s the link to the free YouTube playlist. 

Your challenge is to see how many gifts you can wrap during Bohemian Rhapsody.

Estimated read time: 2 minutes & 36 seconds

The “hometown in a box" Gift:

• Personalized

• Offers the comforts & nostalgia of home from a distance

• The virtual unboxing turned it into a memorable experience

Coordinate a virtual unboxing with the gift-recipient because that takes this gift from good to great. 

Hometown in a box services:

• To research if your desired city has a “hometown in a box” service, google “[insert city name] gift box” or “[insert city name] themed gift basket”

• Here are some that I found for select US hometowns/homestates: Austin, Arizona, Boston,  Buffalo, California cities, Chicago, Cleveland,  Cincinnati, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, DC, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas City, Maine, Minnesota, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Antonio, Seattle, Texas cities, Wisconsin

Build your own “home in a box”:

• If a suitable local “city in a box” service isn’t available, you can personally curate a collection of hometown items and box/ship them to your gift-recipient

• For shipping domestically within the USA, a USPS flat rate large box (up to 70 lbs) ships for around $20 

See 🎁 Hometown connection gifts for other gifts ideas for tapping into hometown pride.

• Who is celebrating the holidays or another milestone (birthday, graduation, etc.) away from their hometown? ___

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.

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• Someone with a close family member or friend who is living away from their hometown

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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:

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• Any memorable gift you’ve received or given

Here to unbox your gift-giving potential,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach

P.S. Who’s looking for a gift for an in-law? Feel free to reply to this email and I’d be happy to respond with some suggestions. Or you can read this Wall Street Journal piece that I was recently included in that included recommended in-law gifts.

P.P.S. When considering giving holiday tips to service workers (mail carriers, hair stylists, etc.) - check out 🎁 Holiday tipping I’m not skipping

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