Gift Ideas

[Acier]

Yay for outside input! Anyways, so a good friend of mine in college has recently been diagnosed with something, and unfortunately is spending Christmas break in a hospital and taking a semester off because of his condition. In order to cheer him up I told him I would get him a present and mail it to him in the hospital over break.
However is I'm torn between two options. His family celebrates Hanukkah (although they are not very religious), though Hanukkah has started so it would be late, I was thinking of sending a box with smaller wrapped presents inside for each of the days. Even though it would be *really* late by the time our break comes around. So would it be a good idea or just get him a decent/thoughtful xmas gift.
If the Hanukkah idea is actually liked, then I have a problem of thinking up of 8 separate gifts.
I have 1) Some of his favorite candy/snack 2) a stuffed rabbit/handrawn or painted rabbit (which would be better on that note?) and 3) a flash drive with music on it (replacing a mixtape/ CD)
If you guys have ideas share them, but keep in mind
Price, I am a college student, and he is staying in a psych ward (it's one of those disorders) so keep that in mind. Not saying he would do something retarded with a gift, but I just don't want him to get in trouble for having it. (so unfortunately 'kickass katana' is out )

 

[Rouse]

stuffed is better than painted. you can squish it and all.

stuffed toys are always a good thing in my opinion. they might be childish and weird at first but you put it on your bed and you look at it everyday and it reminds you of the person who gave it to you. almost like a frame with a photo.

 

[Imp Poster]

I was thinking maybe take a whole gift and break it up into 8 pieces. Individually wrap them in separate boxes from like batteries, battery cover, etc. without actually breaking the gift, mind you.

Or find eight sequentially sized boxes, wrap them up and put them in the boxes by size. Showing the biggest box on the outside and the smallest box inside. But put small things along the way like snacks/candies/socks(who can't use warm feet?)/t-shirt(cheery message perhaps) with stuffed rabbit(I would go stuffed because it seems more resilient) in the smallest?

 

[Acier]

stuffed is better than painted. you can squish it and all.

stuffed toys are always a good thing in my opinion. they might be childish and weird at first but you put it on your bed and you look at it everyday and it reminds you of the person who gave it to you. almost like a frame with a photo.

Would a painting/drawing still be a good idea? The original idea was to hand draw/paint a card with a rabbit on it (rabbit has meaning, promise), which is where the picture idea was coming from. Idk if people like getting paintings as gifts, especially since some people vie wit as "Oh you just did this because you're an artist and it's easy"

 

[delet]

As a Jew, I'll give you some input; Jewish families stop doing the whole 8-present thing pretty quick. Just get 'im one big gift, or just a few, and send 'em as a Chanuka gift.

 

[Acier]

As a Jew, I'll give you some input; Jewish families stop doing the whole 8-present thing pretty quick. Just get 'im one big gift, or just a few, and send 'em as a Chanuka gift.

I was mostly doing it as a way to spread out the gift over time since he has very limited visitor hours and it's a long chunk of time to be in the hospital, but knowing that it's not a big deal certainly helps take the weight of my obsessive planner chest

 

[Rouse]

stuffed is better than painted. you can squish it and all.

stuffed toys are always a good thing in my opinion. they might be childish and weird at first but you put it on your bed and you look at it everyday and it reminds you of the person who gave it to you. almost like a frame with a photo.

Would a painting/drawing still be a good idea? The original idea was to hand draw/paint a card with a rabbit on it (rabbit has meaning, promise), which is where the picture idea was coming from. Idk if people like getting paintings as gifts, especially since some people vie wit as "Oh you just did this because you're an artist and it's easy"

I don't think it's easy, but since you did it, i'm sure the person will appreciate the work.