A Great Gift Idea

As mentioned in my previous post, my husband is difficult to buy gifts for. He never expresses that he wants anything, or if he does he tends to buy it himself. I always have to be somewhat creative when it comes to getting him gifts. For his 30th birthday, part of his birthday gift was an Amazing Clubs subscription. If you have never heard of Amazing Clubs, they are...well...pretty amazing!

Basically you are signing up to have gift baskets sent to the recipient. You can choose what kind of gift baskets (things like cheesecake, flowers, beer, beef jerky, fruit, peanut butter, the list goes on and on and on) and you also choose how often you want them to arrive. You can do a one month subscription (which would be like sending a gift basket in the mail) or you can go all the way up to a full year subscription and the person would receive a basket every month. Now, if you don't want to send the same type of item every month, you can mix it up. To give you a better example, let me tell you how I set it up for Mark.

I decided to do six months, sent every other month, and because I wanted him to have variety I chose a different gift basket for every month. So I picked the items based on things I know he likes.

March - Beer
May - Salsa
July - Fruit
September - Beef Jerky
November - Cheese
January - Fruit (different season, different fruit)

He has already received the beer, salsa, and first fruit shipments. For the beer they sent a six pack of all different specialty beers. The Salsa was two different kinds of salsa, and the fruit was a box of two different types of plums.

Here is a picture of what a shipment tends to look like. This was July's fruit basket. The plums were perfect and delicious! Better than what we buy in the store.

This is not the most budget friendly gift, but if there is a special occasion and you want to do something different, this is a great idea! It's good for birthdays, but especially for men, who tend to be harder to shop for. Also, this would make a nice wedding gift or bridal shower gift. Ideas for a wedding subscription could be the wine club, dinner and a movie club, dinner club, breakfast club, or any of the other options that newlyweds would appreciate and would both benefit from. A monthly club subscription might also be nice for a new mom - something she could receive every month (or every other month) just for herself now that most of her time will be spent on the new baby (maybe the candle club, chocolate club, or ice cream club).

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--T