<p>My son and his friends liked leather binders with their school logo on the front. These can often be ordered off the website selling a particular school's logo items.</p>
<p>I-Tune giftcards are also useful...</p>
<p>$$ / gift cards to places like linens & things, bed bath & beyond, target, etc... always always helpful and used for freshmen (esp if you're combining it with something cheap but still useful - like a thermos from starbucks that you can design w/ photo collage)</p>
<p>i remember getting lots of monogrammed towels and monogrammed stationery and stuff which was really nice.</p>
<p>Would want a DS and Pokemon Diamon, Pearl, Emerald, Ruby, Saphire, Crystal, Gold, Silver, Green, Red and Blue for graduation.</p>
<p>From a studnet: at my school, people go graduation party CRAZY. This past weekend, I went to six graduation parties, my own is tomorrow, I have 4 more before the weekend even begins. Basically, I have been buying a lot of graduation presents (well...my parents have) and here are some cute things that you can do:</p>
<p>-my younger sister (who happens to be my best friend) and her friends (many of whom are also my friends) made me a gigantic collage with pictures of us from over the years and framed it...it was more unique than just a nice framed picture, and they worked really hard on it
-a gift card to Container Store or Bed Bath & Beyond is ALWAYS useful, probably more so than Starbucks or Barnes & Noble, etc.
-my friend's mom gave everybody a huge book about laundry...while most of us know how to do our own laundry, this is a complete survival guide with EVERY possible scenario (I have a coffee stain on the third button of a silk shirt but don't want it to spread beyond a quarter inch to the next button...or something like that)
-anything monogrammed is nice...people have been receiving towels, backpacks, cups, luggage tags, doc kits, koozies (is that what you call that thing that holds cans??), etc.</p>
<p>My favorite present thus far has been the first "little one" from my mom. The day after I decided upon my college, I woke up to find a gift bag in my room with a congratulations card and a few boxes of thank-you notes with my school's colors and some new pens. It was cute and thoughtful, because now I have something to start writing my thank you notes with!</p>
<p>My daughter likes to give a DVD and Top Ramen noodles, so her friends can have "Dinner and a Movie" in their new dorm rooms.</p>
<p>S liked the money most of all.<br>
Other than that, the one thng he used the most was probably the pop-up laundry hamper he won at the senior breakfast.
Another thing that was great was a CD. One of his friends made a mix of all their favorite songs from senior year amd made their whole group (about 10 guys) copies. It was simply called the "05 Mix" and brings back great memories of senior year even now. It was a cheap easy gift that everybody liked.</p>
<p>well all my friends are girls...so here's what i'm doing for them:</p>
<p>i went to target and got a whole bunch of 8x10 white boards/message boards (they also had the cork version) and some huge letter stickers. i put their initials on the top and then used the marker their board came with to write them a cute note. then i wrote something on the back involving some kind of memory with them and how much fun i had with them in high school. after wrapping them and making a card out of a piece of computer paper and some markers, each one came out to about $10. they've been a real hit so far.</p>
<p>i really think graduation is the one time when money isn't impersonal. it's incredibly practical. and seriously, you probably don't even need to get a gift card...why give money that's only good in one place? i thought it was particularly clever for one of my cousins to give me twenty bucks and some spare change: it came out to be $20.07</p>
<p>if all else fails, a thoughtful card and some cash is never a bad way to go!</p>
<p>I'm a college senior, and going to a grauation party for two of my high school and college cousins that are graduating. What is the etiquette for gift giving at my age? I have been skipping christmas and birthday and only doing cards since my family is huge, but this is a specific party event and it seems wrong to show up empty-handed.</p>
<p>My parents are not attending, and not even sending a card as far as I know, and I am actually closer to my aunt (mother of the two graduates) than my parents. I can't afford more than $20 each. </p>
<p>I can't think of anything I could really buy them, as they are the type that seems to have everything, and more knick knacks wouldn't be appreciated. (have tons of picture frames, etc)</p>
<p>They are rather wealthy...would it be rude to give that little, or a nice gesture as I am going to their party. The plane tickets were pretty expensive as it is! Thanks for any help.</p>