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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my brother and his family moved into a new house I gave them flashlights and batteries. Two huge flashlights, and one for each of the kids for their bedrooms. In a weird coincidence, their power went out the night after I gave them. Thank goodness I gave batteries too! [/quote]

Love this. 
Any kind of random household tools and supplies. [/quote]

When I'm stuck for ideas, I wander the isles of Ace Hardware.[/quote]

Same here! I liked my local Ace better when you cloud still buy grass seed (several varieties) by filling paper bags from a dispenser, and when they were still selling nails and screws and such in little paper bags, but I still do like it. 
Someone mentioned tool kits--I would sooner go for a kit from a hardware store, or a small toolbox and stock it with a variety. Same thing with first aid kits, the ones you buy often have stuff you don't want or need, crappy bandages, and not enough of the practical sizes of bandages.

What about an assortment of tape? Buy a nice bamboo storage box (they can use for other stuff if they want) and add in duct tape in different colors, masking, freezer, cellophane, electrical. --PS when our son was little he liked to tape his little cars and trucks together in sort of a train. We talked about, but never get around to it, giving him a box with every kind of tape we could find. I know he would have gone wild for it at that age.

Also, we built him a kid size workbench when he was 5, also mounted a small vise on it. His aunt and uncle gave him a small toolbox filled with small versions of real tools--an 8 inch crowbar, tack hammer, small screwdrivers with fat handles, and so on. So what if he put  little cars in the vise and pounded them with his hammer. . . .[/quote]

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