Group Gifting to Save Money
May 20, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under gifts
Group gifting can be an effective way to save some cash when there’s an event, party, holiday, or birthday coming up. Basically group gifting is just like it sounds. Instead of everyone paying for a gift for a particular person or event, everyone chips in and one collective gift is bought. This is not only budget friendly, but resource friendly too. Why get someone a bunch of smaller items they may not want that also waste packaging and materials when one nicer gift could be purchased instead?
Above: Monkey Business group gift idea for an organic baby shower.
Group gift idea:
Great seats to an event like a concert, sporting event, or play.
Day at a spa – good for mamas to be especially!
Group night out – for example, everyone heads out to dinner together and chips in to pay for the special person. You could also attend an event. Experiences make for better memories and gifts in my opinion because you get to hang with your pals.
Of course you can chip in for an actual material item too. For a co-worker a basket of office goodies is nice. You can snag some luxury beauty products for a girl-friendly basket or give a basket of CDs and an MP3 holder to a music lover. Gift basket options are endless – and you can lower your costs by making the gift basket up yourself!
From Group has some nice ready made gift items for group gifting too (easy to buy and give). Such as…
Love & Romance group gift for a wedding
Hearty Housewarming 12 cookie arrangement for new home owners
Coffee Break group gift for retirement congrats
Do you ever give group gifts? Or do you think it’s not as meaningful (something I’ve heard folks say but don’t agree with).
There’s another site for group gift giving called FrumUs.com I like it because it’s part e-vite (with polls and comment boards), you can collect money online and combine it with cash people give you AND you can buy gift cards or gifts from their site OR take the $ and buy something locally in your community. A friend even used it to collect for a recent widow. Check it out!
And yet another site called from: Everyone (www.fromeveryone.com) – they offer gift cards so the recipient can get what they really want either from their favorite brick-and-mortar store or website. It’s a well designed site, not gimmicky, with a straight forward process and no hidden agendas (or fees). Created by moms!