<p>I’m going to steal your idea for my D’s 18th birthday later this month. My other two have passed their 21st birthdays, and I’m afraid I’ll forget by the time D’s comes around. 
She’ll enjoy the little things, and I can buy her more college stuff this way.</p>
<p>Someone posted here last year about having friends and family all send postcards to the birthday student. I was going to send a packet of funny postcards self addressed) to one of daughter’s friend to give to the rest of the group, but never got around to it. I didn’t trust the kids to purchases and send one by themself, so I thought if I mailed them to the kids it would get done. Maybe if I had emailed the kids it would have worked better!</p>
<p>Anyway, the point was for the birthday person to receive a mailbox full of postcards. I thought this was a great idea and maybe I will be more organized next year to try it. I might start stockpiling funny postcards throughout the year.</p>
<p>chipmoney, I love that idea! I may go for the “salt of the month club,” since he is having me give him cooking lessons this summer. I can just SEE his expression when he opens it!! (Now I just have to think of a real gift to put inside…)</p>
<p>Buy stock in some trendy, up and coming company for $21. Open a money market fund for $21 and tell him to start an automatic savings of $21 a month or week…depending on if his internship is paying or not. Send him $21 in one-dollar bills. Send him a good book on basic investments. He can watch the stock grow (hopefully) and may start him on the road to investment.</p>
<p>bluecroo-
Great minds think alike! We did the investment thing as gifts when my s’s friends were getting bar mitzvah’ed. We gave then a share of a Fortune 100 stock, which at the time was worth $87, along with a book on investing. Then we watched it drop to $30! A relative gave my s stock in some etrade/telecomm company, which of course now isn’t worth the paper it is printed on! The company went belly up a while ago!! Ironically, my s. took some of his bar mitzvah money back then (1999- the peak of the stock boom) and invested it in Qualcomm and Netscape. Qualcomm rose incredibly and split a time or two. He knew he should have sold some of it, but didn’t. Netscape became AOL which then became Time Warner. Not sure what it is worth these days, though probably not a lot. He also takes the $$ I give him as monthly spending $ and puts $100/mo in a high interest internet banking savings account. He’s stashed away quite a bit of dough! And, his internship pays some unbelievable amount of $$. Your ideas are great, but he is waaay ahead of me on that front!</p>
<p>I just tossed this link out in the “How’s Lindsay Lohan Different from Most College Kids?” thread, but I suppose it’s a great idea for any 21st birthday party. Find a sponsor for the party:</p>
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