Personalised gifts for kids
If you’ve got an unusual name, you’ll know that it’s next to impossible to buy anything personalised with your monicker on it off the shelf — you know, those monogrammed pens, stationery, keyrings and the like. My name isn’t all that uncommon, but it’s not often that I can get anything in a shop with my name printed on it.
And these days, with kids being lumbered with some pretty ‘out there’ names — I reckon we’ll see some serial killer in the future claiming the psychological scars of living with a weird name as a defence in court — there will be many more kids going through life accessory-deprived. And don’t even get me started on parents who reinvent traditional names with creative spellings, condemning their kids to a lifetime of having to spell out their name to all and sundry.
But never fear; if you’re looking to buy a gift for a child who has an ‘unusual’ name, help is at hand online. Here are two Aussie sites where you can buy everything from coloured pencils to personalised story books featuring any name you wish.
Mooo Here you’ll find personalised invitations and cards, name labels, stationery, calendars and diaries, bags and pencil cases, clothing, puzzles, wall stickers and artwork. If you want delivery before Christmas, you need to get your order in by 5pm AEST from between December 4 and December 11, depending on where you’re located. Check the site for details.
Identity Direct You can shop here for Christmas decorations, story books, photo gifts, wall clocks, placemats, growth Charts, poems, CDs and DVDs, labels, character merchandise (Disney, Nickelodeon, Sesame Street and Marvel Heros), school stationery, home accessories and more. The site has a maximum delivery time frame of 21 days, so you’ll need to get cracking and put your order in if you want to get your gifts back before Christmas.
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Gail Lipscombe has worked for some of Australia's hottest tech magazines for over 10 years. In her blog, she focuses on demystifying technology, gadgets and the web for average consumers.
With the festive season of Christmas closing in many of us take the calm organized approach in knowing exactly what your loved ones and friends wish for. The gifts are probably already wrapped, tagged and stored away, waiting for the 25th to hopefully bring a little joy and big smile to the recipient’s face. Others find this yearly ritual stressful and are probably too busy with their hectic life styles that for them the best way to cope is to do the mad dash for gifts on Christmas Eve. Whichever method of choice works best for you, there is still that decision in making your selection a fitting one for the lucky person in question. Once those gifts are purchased it’s just fingers crossed that duplicate items from other folk are not making their way under the tree. We all want to give and receive something special and different, not the run of the mill pair of socks that you mischievously rewrapped for your dad as an extra little prezzy.