Gift ideas for girl heading off to college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let it go w/ the cash fixation already. If OP doesn't like to give cash that's fine.

I was raised to believe that giving cash was a sign of not knowing the person and not caring enough to make an effort to pick out something specifically for them. Also, I was taught that it was tacky.

Times have certainly changed but some people really enjoy personalizing a gift. Leave OP alone.

I hear you, that was always my parents' stance as well. But I can tell you what, when I was a kid I was always thrilled to get cash as a gift even though my parents looked down on it. And I can guarantee that the current generation of kids have no ill feelings towards receiving cash. None whatsoever. Still your own choice of course, but that's really becoming an old way of thinking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP again. She's going to W&M. I am all over the WaWa thing - thank you!

NP here -- I'd send the WaWa gift card as part of a care package with some inexpensive, but fun stuff -- maybe cute socks or nice hand cream or gel pens -- and a card from your kids. My DD is a rising sophomore and she was thrilled when one family she babysat for did this. The card was her favorite part -- when I helped her move out of the dorm, she carefully folded it up and put it away so she'll have it again in her new room this fall. (BTW, WaWa is also a Princeton thing. The parents in this family went there and knew that she'd get a kick out of the gift card.)

We have a whole bag of cute socks heading to recycle.

Meh. You do you, babe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP again. She's going to W&M. I am all over the WaWa thing - thank you!

NP here -- I'd send the WaWa gift card as part of a care package with some inexpensive, but fun stuff -- maybe cute socks or nice hand cream or gel pens -- and a card from your kids. My DD is a rising sophomore and she was thrilled when one family she babysat for did this. The card was her favorite part -- when I helped her move out of the dorm, she carefully folded it up and put it away so she'll have it again in her new room this fall. (BTW, WaWa is also a Princeton thing. The parents in this family went there and knew that she'd get a kick out of the gift card.)

We have a whole bag of cute socks heading to recycle.

Meh. You do you, babe.

Thrift shoppers love all those cute socks.

[Anonymous]

Our girls absolutely loved getting monogrammed towel sets. They each got maybe 2 different sets from different people and they were thrilled. They liked having nice hand towels and face cloths to hang by their sinks in their rooms, and then they had the bigger bath towels for the showers. Out of all the things they received, these were the favorite. Even more than cash. The second most favorite gift was to receive one of those monogrammed sarong/bath wraps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our girls absolutely loved getting monogrammed towel sets. They each got maybe 2 different sets from different people and they were thrilled. They liked having nice hand towels and face cloths to hang by their sinks in their rooms, and then they had the bigger bath towels for the showers. Out of all the things they received, these were the favorite. Even more than cash. The second most favorite gift was to receive one of those monogrammed sarong/bath wraps.

Your girls lied to you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our girls absolutely loved getting monogrammed towel sets. They each got maybe 2 different sets from different people and they were thrilled. They liked having nice hand towels and face cloths to hang by their sinks in their rooms, and then they had the bigger bath towels for the showers. Out of all the things they received, these were the favorite. Even more than cash. The second most favorite gift was to receive one of those monogrammed sarong/bath wraps.

Your girls lied to you.

Either that, or they went to college in the South.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let it go w/ the cash fixation already. If OP doesn't like to give cash that's fine.

I was raised to believe that giving cash was a sign of not knowing the person and not caring enough to make an effort to pick out something specifically for them. Also, I was taught that it was tacky.

Times have certainly changed but some people really enjoy personalizing a gift. Leave OP alone.

making a post with the expectation of being left alone is strange, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our girls absolutely loved getting monogrammed towel sets. They each got maybe 2 different sets from different people and they were thrilled. They liked having nice hand towels and face cloths to hang by their sinks in their rooms, and then they had the bigger bath towels for the showers. Out of all the things they received, these were the favorite. Even more than cash. The second most favorite gift was to receive one of those monogrammed sarong/bath wraps.

Your girls lied to you.

Either that, or they went to college in the South.

Monogrammed towel sets would have been a ...sight at my northeastern LAC. I'm laughing just thinking about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our girls absolutely loved getting monogrammed towel sets. They each got maybe 2 different sets from different people and they were thrilled. They liked having nice hand towels and face cloths to hang by their sinks in their rooms, and then they had the bigger bath towels for the showers. Out of all the things they received, these were the favorite. Even more than cash. The second most favorite gift was to receive one of those monogrammed sarong/bath wraps.

Your girls lied to you.

Either that, or they went to college in the South.

Monogrammed towel sets would have been a ...sight at my northeastern LAC. I'm laughing just thinking about it.

+1 what a stupid idea.

[Anonymous]

I went to W&M. I would suggest any of the following in lieu of cash:

-gift card to the bookstore on DOG street where she can buy college themed items/apparel.
-gift card to The Cheese Shop - great place for lunch that the college students frequent down there
-Busch Gardens gift card! Fun to go with college friends on weekend.