I love the idea of giving gifts that don’t add to the piles of "stuff" we all seem to end up with. Of course, it’s always nice to present someone with a gift that you know they really want but would likely not buy for themselves (i.e. my mother’s day bike basket), but more often than not it’s impossible to find that perfect/elusive item.
I'm particularily fond of perishable gifts of food or experience gifts like museum memberships and theater or concert tickets. Given my current culinary leanings though, I’m especially intrigued by gifts of food.
Some of my favorite executions of this idea include the perfect little cheesecakes made each December by our friends Julie and Tim for everyone on their Christmas list (it is, without fail, one of our very. favorite. gifts.), our friend Achlee’s genius gift of that killer homemade blueberry pie for Bryan’s birthday (she even included a little dough shaped “B” on the top), and Mav’s recent birthday gift to a close friend of homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies…
I think it would be especially nice to also include a recipe and some prettily packaged ingredients (like the ones above) to the recipient if they love to cook…
Do you have a favorite go-to gift?
