Sweetest High School Grad Gift

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<p>My son received the sweetest gift from the parents of one of his good friends.</p>

<p>In a gift bag were two packages of homemade cookies, wrapped beautifully with ribbons. The cookies included a note that said whenever he needed a little taste of home, he should let them know he wanted some more cookies. Also included were two postcards. On the front of the postcards it said “I NEED COOKIES.” On the back of the postcard the stamp had been affixed, the givers’ name and address was filled out in the “address” section, and in the writing section there was a menu of cookies with boxes for him to check off what flavors he wanted, and a space for him to fill in his name and address. The postcard promised if he mailed it, he would receive the cookies in a few days!</p>

<p>I thought it was SUCH a thoughtful gift for a kid heading away to college!</p>

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<p>That is so sweet, and so personal! What a cute idea!</p>

<p>BTW, my son received homebaked cookies freshman year, through the mail, from a parent of one of his college friends. This was to congratulate him when he reached a certain goal. I thought that was so kind!</p>

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<p>Much better than the gifts our school (sort of competitive, school-wise and keeping-up-with-the-Jones-wise had a couple years ago.
Homemade cookies are a much better thing - we had to hear about the Ford Explorer with matching boat for at least 2 years. Seriously. A boat.
And I’m very serious about the cookies being a supercool gift. Thoughtful, useful, and not over the top.</p>

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<p>I’m stealing that idea! So sweet. :)</p>

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<p>That’s a fabulous idea! She must be a very smart mother! :)</p>

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<p>I LOVE that idea! How kind and personal. Thanks for sharing it with us!</p>

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<p>I had an old-fashioned Austrian grandmother who lived up the street from us. Whenever any of the grandkids went anywhere (overnight camp, visit to see the other sets of grandparents, everytime we went back to college), we were sent with 2 big bags of her famous cookies. Omi Cookies were the best!</p>

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<p>Update - my son went to another friend’s grad party. The cookie mom gave that friend the same wonderful gift. The friend announced he’s going to make copies of the postcards, so he can get even MORE homemade cookies.</p>

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<p>Lafalum,
I do wish you had posted this last week. We went to a celebration for a girl we have known since age 8. All my brain could come up with was an iTunes gift card. I,too, plan to adopt ‘cookie mom’s’ idea.
You should direct cookie mom to this site to see what she started.
I am chuckling at the thought of the ‘freshman fifTY’ (not fifteen!)phenomenon starting here at CC.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://breezeb.tripod.com/crafts/giftideas/ineedcookies.html[/url]”>http://breezeb.tripod.com/crafts/giftideas/ineedcookies.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>wonderful wonderful idea – thank you!!! how perfect! </p>

<p>i just remembered a wedding gift received a long long time ago. it was a quiche pan enclosed with a recipe card with a personal recipe using the pan. </p>

<p>thanks for the reminder that anything related to a recipe is an awesome personal gift idea!</p>

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<p>Thank you for the great idea! I’m stealing this idea too!</p>

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<p>That’s a great one. Thanks for sharing…might also steal it for myself!</p>

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<p>The postcards do look like the ones in the website referenced by acinva (posting # 10) above. So my friend the “cookie mom” may not be the originator of this idea, but it’s still a great one! And now I feel less guilty for encouraging people to copy her great gift idea.</p>