Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Cut Down On Wrapping Paper This Christmas With Experience Gifts

An assortment of boxes, wrapped in glittery, colorful paper adorned with ribbons is a familiar sight under our Christmas trees. When Christmas morning comes, we rip through these cute wrappings to get to the surprise inside the box. And the glittery, colorful paper along with the ribbons, go straight to the garbage.

What a waste! Why spend for something that just gets torn and ripped and discarded?

This Yuletide season, cut down on wrapping paper, and help save trees, by giving experiences as a gift for Christmas. Experience gifts are gifts that are not confined to a box, and therefore do not need glittery, colorful paper and ribbons. These gift ideas come wrapped in excitement, thrill and adventure, and, most importantly, make lasting memories that the receiver can treasure forever.

So cut down on wrapping paper and give these experiences as a gift for Christmas:


Treat your family to an adventure-filled gift for Christmas with a whale watching experience. This experience gift, perfect for a family of four, will take you and your family to an up close and personal experience with at least 80 killer whales while on a zodiac-style jet boat. This family gift for Christmas will definitely make the holiday season more memorable.

Give a friend a new skill this season with a pottery-making experience as a gift for Christmas. Your friend will learn the basic techniques in pottery making and will get to make an item as a memento for the experience. This gift for Christmas may even become a new hobby for your friend.

Thinking of a perfect gift for Christmas for the woman in your life? Give her the experience of learning the secrets of French cuisine. You can even join in the experience as this is a lesson for two. This gift for Christmas is a culinary adventure, which will teach both of you the techniques in preparing the finest French dishes. After preparing the dishes, both of you can enjoy your meal together.

Give a new parent an exciting learning experience as a gift for Christmas with an introduction to baby massage course. Baby massages are good for babies’ physical wellness, sleeping patterns and motor activity. This gift for Christmas will not only be a learning experience for the new parent, it will be a good experience for baby, too!

Give A Gift For Christmas They Will Remember Forever

Why do we spend time thinking about what gifts to give during special occasions like Christmas? 


It is because we want to impress the receiver and make him or her feel special. By wanting to impress the receiver of our gift, we really want to be remembered and thought of in a special way.


But what kind of gifts do we usually give? 


Usually, most people give products as their Christmas gifts. These products, however, no matter how stylish they are at the time when they were given, go out of style and wear out. Clothes get old and out of style, socks wear out, electronic devices get destroyed.

This year, give a gift for Christmas that your friends and family will remember forever by giving experience gifts. Experiences as a gift for Christmas is unique, one of a kind and the memory of the experience, and the things that the receiver learns during the experience will not go out of style or wear out or get destroyed. Experiences as a gift for Christmas is something that the receiver will treasure forever.

Give a gift for Christmas that they will remember forever by considering these gifts:

Thinking of a perfect gift for Christmas for your dad? New golf gears would be a good idea. But a golf day with 2007 PGA of BC Teacher of the Year John Randle is something your dad will remember forever.  This gift for Christmas will have your dad spending a whole day learning from and playing with John Randle. Truly a once in a lifetime gift!

A little brother who flies airplanes on video games will be thrilled to have flying lessons as a gift for Christmas. This experience, aside from being an adventure for him, will also be a step towards the fulfillment of his dreams of being a pilot. Definitely a gift for Christmas that he can talk about forever!

A bottle of wine is a good gift for Christmas for a wine lover. But a VIP winery tour, lunch and tasting will be a gift for Christmas he or she will treasure. This gift will take the wine lover and a companion, who could be you, to a tour of a vineyard VIP style. A gift for Christmas that is truly to die for!

Give Memories As Gifts This Christmas

Thinking of the best gift for Christmas? 


Be creative this Yuletide season and give an experience. Yes, most people are accustomed to receiving product gifts. But these kinds of gifts wear out, or go out of style or just end up in a corner in your house. 

An experience gift as a gift for Christmas, meanwhile, is a unique way to express Holiday cheers and at the same time show a person that they are special to you. Giving an experience as a gift for Christmas gives someone memories that are more lasting than product gifts.

Here are a few experience suggestions that are perfect as a Christmas gifts:

Flying gives one an exhilarating feeling. Give this experience as a gift for Christmas through a zipline flight adventure. This experience features gliding along steel ziplines that are suspended high above the breathtaking white water river dividing Whistler and Blackcomb mountains. The experience of flying, as well as the view makes a perfect and unforgettable gift for Christmas. 

Daredevils crave for adrenalin-pumping activities. The best gift for Christmas for these types of people is bungee jump! The experience will be something that her or she will talk about for years. And oh, the experience also includes a Bungee Jump t-shirt, to make the memory of the jump fresher everyday.

Someone who loves outdoor adventures will greatly appreciate an exhilarating hiking and climbing experience to the top of Whistler Peak via Via Ferrata as a gift for Christmas. Via Ferrata or Iron Way in Italian, is an engineered pathway with fixed cables and metal ladder rungs to help you move while rock climbing.

Give a couple the experience of “dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh” as a gift for Christmas with a private horse-drawn sleigh ride and dinner for two. This experience will take the couple across the beautiful wooded trails beside Whistler’s Green Lake and then take them to the Den Restaurant for a four-course gourmet fondue dinner. The sleigh ride experience, the breathtaking views and the food make an unforgettable, romantic gift for Christmas.