3 Meaningful Holiday Gift Ideas for Your Loved Ones

A Few Ideas to Fuel Your Imagination
The difficulty of gift-giving is that one size, decidedly, does not fit all. Just because you’ve got a science fiction fan in your life doesn’t mean they’ll love Star Trek or Star Wars. They might love both, they might love neither, they might love one or the other. Maybe they like novels.

The point is, specific gifts will definitely work for specific people. This writing is meant to be read by a diverse variety of individuals with their own likes and dislikes. So what’s more useful is identifying families of gifts. One family of gifts might be those that involve treats, snacks, or meals. Another family might involve desk trinkets or gift card balance or office supplies for a coworker.

The family of gifts we’ll focus on here is, well, those which are best for other members of your family. Loved ones are family, even if you’re not directly related to them at a genetic level. These are gift ideas for your “inner circle” if you will. Hopefully, at minimum, they help you get an idea of what sort of options will be best for those closest to you.

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1. The Floral Angle Fits A Variety of Situations
Flowers can say a lot, and you’ve got choices all over the cost spectrum. Here’s a holiday flower option that could be a vector for an individual gift, or for decorating an entire room where a holiday event will be. For individual gifts, you can go for one expensive flower like a rare orchid, or a big beautiful bouquet designed to change the character of a room for a time.

Especially if someone in your life loves flowers, you might want to find a few rare blooms and give them to those you love.

2. Not All Gifts Are Physical: Time and Travel
A family vacation is a gift, and the involved logistics are often more costly than spending big on a large, physical item. Think about booking a cruise in the Caribbean with your family. You’ve got to find the cruise, reserve tickets, assure everyone has time off, arrange travel, find someone to keep an eye on the house while you’re gone, and the list goes on.

Once your family or friend group gets to the location, though, and you get to hang out together for a few days, it’s all worth it. Maybe you book a cruise, maybe you go camping. There are a lot of options in gifts that involve either time or travel.

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3. Something Big and Frivolous and Fun
Do you have five red-blooded males in varying states of maturity in your house? Get five big paintball guns; spend the weekend chasing each other through that forest at the edge of town. Maybe get a family dog. Do you live on a ranch in the middle of North Dakota? You might be able to pick up a pet bobcat.

Okay, that’s over the top, but you get the idea. Think outside the box. What does your family love? Silly string, paintball guns, candy, snacks, video games, VR headsets; these are all options that could fit the bill. Get an individual or a group something that’s fun for the sake of fun. That may not be emotionally cathartic, but the fun itself is meaningful.

A Variety of Meaningful Options
Sometimes you’re giving one gift to an individual, sometimes you’re giving one gift to a group, and sometimes there are more moving parts than that. Whatever the case, flowers, time, travel, and “fun” gifts designed are all excellent, meaningful options. If you’re not sure what to get your friends or family this Christmas, hopefully, these suggestions help.