gift These 5 WOnderful EXPERIENCES to the ones you love

This holiday season, instead of giving “stuff” to your loved ones, gift them with experiences they will love. Not only are experiences more memorable, but doing things instead of buying things will reduce the amount of clutter in your life and home. ​

Read on for 5 fantastic experience gift ideas...

1 ). Tickets and/or Memberships

• Kids: Children's theater tickets, zoo membership, aquarium membership, science museum tickets.
• Teens: YMCA or local gym membership, movie passes for local theater, ice skating passes or membership to a rink, batting cages and go karts tickets, concert tickets.
• Adults: Pro or minor league sports tickets, local theater company subscription, museum membership, broadway show ticket package. 

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2 ). Classes

• ​Kids: Ballet, dance or gymnastics classes, art lessons, horseback riding lessons, cooking classes, swimming lessons.  
• Teens: Surfing lessons, snowboarding class, private lessons for a sport or hobby.
• Adults: Paint and Sip classes, crafting workshops, cooking classes or in-home chef, MasterClass, yoga classes, dance lessons, wine tastings class, flower arranging lessons.
• Hint: Groupon and Living Social are great places to find discounted classes and trips.

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3 ). Trips

• ​​Kids: Great Wolf Lodge, amusement park trip, ski trip, beach trip, Washington DC.
• Teens: bring one friend on a  weekend away at beach, mountains, city.
• Adults: Fun local day trip and tour ( like Biltmore House, Charleston, or Savannah in the Southeast), unusual tour in vacation destination (dolphin tour, ghost tour, foodie walking tour, etc.), wine country, big festival like Jazz Fest, Taste of Chicago, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,etc.

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4).  Big Tickets items

• Kids: pay for summer camp,  buy a musical instrument and lessons, pay for a session of classes or a sport (e.g. soccer or football season).
• Teens: Trip overseas, pay for a year of school fees, books for college, or even a year of college.
• Adults: Monthly cleaning service, weekly meal delivery service , pay for a family photo shoot and the prints, purchase a season of opera tickets, monthly flower delivery.

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5). Other cool Experience gifts

*Hot air balloon ride
*Helicopter tour (or airboat, tractor, train etc)
*A year of date nights (12 gift cards to restaurants, movies, sporting events, museums, etc)
*Skydiving
*Sailing or boating tour
*Massage and or facial
*Subscription boxes

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Enough with the stuff!  Give the Gift of Experience instead. 

Using these great ideas of how to give the gift of experience, you are sure to be popular this holiday season.