Holiday gift ideas

So we are once again entering the holiday season. My favorite time of year!

I really enjoy giving gifts to my favorite clients as well as providers I have grown fond of. Knowing discretion is a must in most cases I usually give a gift card, a bottle of their favorite beverage, food baskets. Things of that nature that can be easily disposed of or explained.

Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated. I like changing things up whenever I can.

Thanks in advance folks!
Leigh-Ann

Good thread! I'd like to know as well.

Cash and gas gift cards.Professionals get rates and gifts from clients .WooHoo!

I've always stuck to the classics. Bottles of beverage, food items, gift cards if I know of a particular hobby that they are involved in (I don't like going generic). Tickets to a sporting event.

The situations vary obviously, but here are some I have given or received that I thought were nice:

--A home cooked candlelight dinner
--A couples massage
--A donation to a charity you know they care about
--Theater tickets
--A horse drawn carriage ride

Instead clients and professionals giving Holiday gifts to each other.DONATE to your favorite charity

If you need an excuse to donate to charity-- you're doing it wrong.

If you need an excuse to donate to charity-- you're doing it wrong. Originally Posted by GracePreston

DONATE to charity.That's good deed.Intead of clients and professionals.Clients paying for rates and gifts.

It WOULD be nice to have a hobbyist who would care to join me at my regular Christmas Eve event. Every year on Christmas Eve, which happens to also be my birthday-- the older kids and I work at a local soup kitchen serving meals and giving gifts to the kids.

It WOULD be nice to have a hobbyist who would care to join me at my regular Christmas Eve event. Every year on Christmas Eve, which happens to also be my birthday-- the older kids and I work at a local soup kitchen serving meals and giving gifts to the kids. Originally Posted by GracePreston

Nice.

Nice. Originally Posted by Old-T

Well.. we don't do Christmas like a lot of families. Yeah.. we still do stockings with the small gifts and what not.. but instead of presents.. the kids each pick out what "experience" they'd like to have for the year. Can be a trip, summer camp, you name it. I'd rather them gather experiences than gather things.

Well.. we don't do Christmas like a lot of families. Yeah.. we still do stockings with the small gifts and what not.. but instead of presents.. the kids each pick out what "experience" they'd like to have for the year. Can be a trip, summer camp, you name it. I'd rather them gather experiences than gather things. Originally Posted by GracePreston

Donating to charity good deed.NOT Clients and professionals. givng gifts to each other.

I'm pretty sure we all heard you the first 2 times. Unless you have something new to add to the conversation, of course.....

Herd what?

Some ties maybe?