Digital & Electronics Gifts Tips
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Set Up the Bar
Maybe your friends have just moved into their first home and they now actually have room for a wet bar. Perhaps they are even building one in their basement for the enjoyment of friends and visitors! If so, they are now going to need proper bar accessories. Here is a list of what they must have, any of which would make a great housewarming gift:
• Shakers (of varying sizes – and you always need more than one at a party or you are always cleaning it out)
• Blender (enable your friends to make good frozen drinks – you know you won't be sorry!)
• Classy Shot Glasses (yes, the ones from your college days are nostalgic, but now you need to have a grown up set up – maybe even one with measurements!)
• Ice Bucket (this one is obvious)
• Glassware (Tumblers, Margarita Glasses, Martini Glasses, Wine Glasses – for red and white and champagne flutes for a start!)
• Bar Guide (this can be a book or an electronic virtual bartender – it doesn't matter as long as it has the right recipes!)
Poker Night for Your Man
Poker night is newly popular again because of all the hype around celebrity poker and poker tournaments but maybe your dad has been having a poker night for years?
You want to make sure that he is the coolest dad on the block, so you may want to consider getting him a new professional poker set.
These sets typically come with authentic casino chips and decks of cards - the best professional poker sets also come in a portable case that can be transported to any buddy's house for a great night of poker and beer drinking.
Add dimension to this gift by creating the ultimate poker night for your dad and his friends - go all out and organize your family to make some great poker snack food, pick up some high end cigars and pick up some rat pack music to complete the mood. Surprise your dad, and his friends with a great night to remember.
Let Your Photos Do the Talking
Photos are an important part of our memories whether they are of a special event, or just daily life. Now, you can add something even more wonderful to your photo album, the voices of your loved ones.
Get a talking photo album - you can find them online - and fill it with photos of your life and family. Record a ten second message for each photograph.
If you are giving this as a special anniversary gift, record the voices of your parents, siblings, children and even grandchildren to go with each photo and create an incredible memory book to celebrate your lives together!
If you want to get a little crazy, write a story about your lives together and read each part in ten second increments. End your talking photo album with a special photo of you and your partner or spouse and a special message to commemorate this milestone in your lives.
Pamper Your Man: Shaving
A classic gift for him is always a high end razor, but this year, make it a bit more unique. Recently, there are high end barbers and shaving shops popping up all over the nation and you can get your special guy a gift certificate for a professional straight edge shave. Not only will he feel pampered, but you may benefit as well from that baby smooth face!
Throw in a little gift certificate for product while he's there. They may have some suggestions for his beard and skin type that can help him recapture the luxury of his experience on a daily basis.
Accompany this gift with something like a fogless shaving mirror that can mount in your shower, and a new pack of razor blades and you have a unique gift for him that combines the practical and the sublime.
The Gift of Easy Cleaning
More space is often just more space to clean. If your friends now have more square footage, they may not even be thinking about how much more dusting, vacuuming and other aggravating house cleaning is coming their way.
If this is the case, grab them a cool cleaning gadget like a roomba. This is the best kind of cleaning gift to give because it doesn't require a human to make it work (other than to clean it out every so often and make sure it has power). Your friends will love you when they set it loose to clean without having to push and pull it around.
If you have an open ended budget, consider giving them a gift certificate to a local cleaning service. Moving into a new house is always a bit dusty, dirty and messy and being able to have a service come in and start you on a clean slate for free is an amazing gift. Cleaning made easy is always a great unique housewarming gift.
Framing
A picture frame is always a classic gift, whether it be for housewarming, anniversary or wedding, but nowadays, you can do something a little different that will mean a lot. Digital photography has come a long way in a short time, and now you can even give a digital slide show frame!
Take all of the photos of you and your friends or loved ones and organize them in order, or not, and upload them into this cool gadget and they will have a digital slide show all the time! This cool picture frame looks like any other but it will walk your friends down memory lane and it will never get boring.
They can get a bit pricey, so you want to execute the plan without shelling out the bucks, make a picture CD for your friends, give them some digital picture printing paper, a new picture frame and you've done something just about as good!
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