Comments on: 3 Things Every Parent Should Know Before Buying Gifts For College Students

By: Slinky

Slinky — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:29:02 +0000

Gift cards only suck when the person gets them with no idea of a good place to get one from. In other words, when they should have just gifted cash. However, to an avid reader, Barnes&Nobles/Borders/etc cards are golden. Get gift cards to somewhere that the person is going to shop anyway. If you don’t know if they shop there already, don’t do it.

By: Monroe on a Budget

Monroe on a Budget — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:46:47 +0000

Here’s my tip – don’t buy the college kid a computer until you find out what the specifications are for the college network. Some colleges say “bring whatever you want,” others have a recommendation list so the students won’t run into compatibility problems.

By: Ruth Ann

Ruth Ann — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:57:54 +0000

I’m a volunteer high school youth worker with my church and I know that a lot of “my kids” love to get rolls of quarters. Basically, they’re getting laundry and vending machine money. In the past I’ve even made little banks/coin purses that said “laundry money” and filled them with quarters. It’s amazing to see their eyes light up when they realize that they won’t have to scrounge for quarters (or dollar bills for the change machine) for a while.

Of course, this doesn’t work as well for those who are living at home or in apartments with their own washer and dryers or who are at the schools that have machines which take debit cards, but for those new freshmen at the little liberal arts college, quarters are like gold.

By: R. L.

R. L. — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:58:53 +0000

I think that gift cards can be great gifts, as long as the giver knows what types of stores the reciever actually shops at. I also feel that when someone gives a gift card for a place they know I would shop, I know that they’re paying attention to my interests. Cash is definately easy and best if someone really has no clue about your spending habits. All my gamer friends tend to like gift cards for Amazon or a specific game store because they’re definately going to spend money there and it helps knock off the cost on something they might have waited to buy. In the sense that $50 for a game sucks but getting to pay $30 instead and not wait for 6 months is the sort of thing that they like.

That being said, I don’t like gift cards for $10 at a place where everything is 20+ is inappropriate especially when I don’t shop at the store and its something my mother-in-law does consitently. I’d rather get nothing but a hug and smile than gift for the sake of gift giving.

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