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Photobox’s resident gift guru, Matt James of Party-Ideas-by-a-Pro, is an award-winning party planner who’s produced birthdays, weddings, and events for A-list celebrities such as Stella McCartney, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Sir Elton John. He shares his inspirational ideas for using Photobox products to create thoughtful and meaningful Christmas gifts.

 

Birthdays, Anniversaries, Valentine’s Day, Christmas… they only come once a year, so why not make them last and spread the love over the entire day!

Instead of buying one gift, as is tradition, choose 12 smaller presents and your special someone will have something to open every hour, throughout the day.

If it’s for a birthday and they’re under 60, a nice touch is to write the time they should open each gift as the same number of minutes past each hour as the age they’re turning. For example, for a 29th birthday, instruct them to open gifts at 7:29am, 8:29am, 9:29am etc. Similarly, if it’s for an anniversary the minutes past could reflect the number of years or for Mother/Father’s Day it might be the number of children the gifts are from.

If the occasion falls on a weekday, I love the idea of sending them off to work with a big bag packed with gifts to open throughout the day. You could text them every hour to remind them to open each gift – or even call or FaceTime – so that you can experience the moment with them and share their reaction to each present.

If they’re going to be at home but you won’t be with them, you could try to hide each gift around the house in advance. And then call or text them every hour to reveal the location of each gift, one at a time.

A Gift Every Hour can also be applied to Christmas presents. You could either bestow gifts every hour throughout the day to prolong the festivities or use it to countdown to Christmas with a gift every day – like an advent calendar – culminating on Christmas day.

The gifts

The gifts themselves don’t have to be expensive. In fact, I’d suggest a mix of fun little trinkets, gag gifts, homemade items, a few of their favorite things, some things with sentimental significance and anything that invokes a memory or celebrates your relationship with that person.

Some examples might be:

• secretly arranging with their boss for them to have the day off
• a video message from a long-distance friend
• a coupon for a foot rub
• their favorite sweets/chocolate/snack/treats
• their favorite meal (which you could cook for them as one of the evening gifts)
• a stack of handwritten ‘Open When’ letters for different occasions (i.e open when you need encouragement, open when you need a reminder of why I love you, open when you’re feeling sad, open when you’re missing me etc).
• a collection of messages sent on postcards from friends
• a plan for a date night
• something that reminds them of how you first met
• your last Rolo

Photo gifts are a great way to include a few presents with sentimental significance or ones that evoke memories or celebrate relationships. However, these don’t have to be limited to just traditional gifts, such as a framed photo. Check out some of Photobox’s small gifts, like iPhone Cases, Cushions, Pouches, Beach Towels, T-shirts, Snow Globes, Keyrings, and Jigsaws – all of which can be personalized with photos that celebrate your relationship with the person.

In fact, A Gift Every Hour is great way to give them some practical or fun gifts that you know they need, would love, or could get daily use out of, which on their own might feel too small or insignificant to give as their main birthday/Christmas/anniversary/Valentine’s day present.

Some ideas are:

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