Works for Me Wednesday: Father Christmas

My dad is notoriously hard to shop for. It’s not that he doesn’t like getting gifts. The opposite, actually. But he’s a pretty successful dude, and if there’s something he wants, he usually just…goes out and buys it. Sure, sometimes he’ll ask for a cd or a movie or something, and he’s always incredibly gracious, but come Christmas I never feel like I’ve hit it out of the park with him. In fact, I think the best present I ever got him was a popsicle-stick box for holding paper clips—seventeen years later, it’s still sitting on the desk in his office. I saw it last time I was there.

 

So it was in the spirit of the popsicle-stick paper clip box that I came up with this year’s gift: a subscription to the Kitchendoor Treat of the Month Club. Membership includes one batch of cookies, muffins, or bars shipped to his door every thirty days.

 

I haven’t come up with a full list yet, but I’m thinking I’ll try to keep the goodies seasonal: coconut cookies in the spring, berry tarts over the summer, pumpkin muffins in the fall. He’s going through kind of a rough patch right now—everybody in my family is—and I think it’ll mean a lot to him to receive a tangible reminder that he’s on my mind.

 

It’s personal, reasonably inexpensive, and a gift that will last all year.

 

I’d say that works for me.