Everyone loves to receive and open presents. However, it gets stressful as soon as you realise that you need to reorganise your home to make room for all the presents you have received during the holiday season. Usually, a lot of things just add to your pile of clutter that you have been collecting for years.
“I have too many belongings, and my house looks messy.” This is what I hear all the time from my clients.
So, this Christmas and holiday season, how about replacing traditional gift-giving with clutter-free gift-giving?
How about giving something that is clutter-free, useful, consumable, or non-stuff? Something that doesn’t end up as another piece of clutter in the house.
Clutter-free gifts are more meaningful as you consider the recipients’ needs, their personality, and lifestyle. They are personalised and useful. They are special!
In this article, I’m sharing 50+ gift ideas that are non-stuff, consumable and useful for you to have a clutter-free Christmas this year. Let’s jump in!
1. Non-Stuff gift ideas
Tickets
You can buy tickets to an event or a concert for your friends and family, plus you can also buy one for yourself so that you can attend with them and create great memories together. Here are a few options:
- Theatre
- Sports event
- Gallery
- Movie
- Concert
- Drive-thru cinema
- Sight-seeing tour
- Local attractions
- Excursions
- Water parks
- Farm tour and animal encounters
Passes
When gifting passes, you have various options that can work with your budget and recipients’ hobbies and lifestyle. Here are a few options to look at:
- National parks
- Swimming pools
- Theme parks
- Resorts
Memberships/ subscriptions
If you gift membership or a subscription, the recipient is able to enjoy the benefits throughout the year. Memberships/subscriptions make really great clutter-free, non-stuff gifts. Some examples include:
- Audible Premium Plus
- Amazon Prime
- Netflix
- Other streaming services
- HelloFresh
- AusCycling
- Swimming club
- Recreation club
- Sports club
- Costco membership
- Gym membership
- Local zoo, aquarium or museum membership
- Wine club subscription
- Digital publications subscription
- Software/Apps licence like Photoshop
- Paint by Number monthly subscription
- Music subscription
- YouTube no ads subscription
Knowledge
Knowledge is an excellent and unique clutter-free gift that will provide your loved ones with value and support for years to come. Here are some of the classes, lessons, courses or workshops that you can look for:
- Baking classes
- Dance lesson
- Language classes
- Painting classes
- Cooking classes
- Photography lesson or course
- Computer programming course
- Drawing class
- Yoga class
- Gardening class
- Makeup class
- Driving classes
- Fitness classes
- Craft Classes
- Music lesson
- Career coaching
- Personal styling workshop
- Home styling workshop
- Home organising workshop
- An online course about anything the recipient is interested in
Experiences
By gifting an experience that is on the wish list of your loved ones, you are actually making their wish come true. How amazing is that? Think about what they always wanted to do and then gift them an experience that they will remember for life. Some examples are:
- Flying experience
- Wine and dine
- Getaways
- Animal experiences
- Scenic cruise
- Spa and wellness
- Scuba diving and snorkelling
- Sailing
- Skydiving
- Hot air balloon rides
- Fishing
- Jet skiing
- Parasailing
- Surfing
- Climbing
- Canyoning
- Bungee jumping
- Skiing and snowboarding
- Whale watching
- Swimming with dolphins
- Paintballing
- Learning experiences
Services
Services are consumable. They are clutter-free and take zero space. Here are a few services that you can pay for and gift to your friends and family:
- Decluttering and home organising
- House cleaning
- Pantry makeover
- Personal stylist
- Fitness coach
- Facial, massage and pampering
- Manicure and Pedicure
- Laser hair removal
- Car servicing
- Car wash
- Garden maintenance
- Needed home renovations
- Pet grooming
- Childcare
- Baby sitting
2. Consumables
Consumables include all the items that can be consumed and used up. They are clutter-free and personalised in line with the interests and likes of the recipient. For example, if someone loves to use scented candles, then giving a triple scented soy candle would be a great gift for them. Here are a few ideas for you:
- Gourmet food basket
- Coffee shop or restaurant gift card
- Wine
- Candles
- Herbal tea blends
- Tea leaf blends and mixtures
- High-quality coffee beans
- Needed clothes
- Bath Salts
- Cake
- Chocolates
- Homemade cookies
- Flowers
- Homemade spice mix
- Homemade sauces or jams
- Makeup
- Audiobooks
- Office stationery
- 2024 calendar or diary
3. Useful gifts
Another way of ensuring you are not adding clutter to someone’s house is to take into consideration their needs and lifestyle, and gifting something useful to them such as:
- Personal care products
- Skincare products
- Food plants
- Home garden kit
- Mushroom growing kit
- Cookware set
- Tools
- Gift cards
- Bedsheets, pillowcases, linen
Make sure that either you ask them what they need the most or pay attention to what they have been talking about recently. This will help you gift something that they are in need of.
Happy gifting and wishing you a wonderful holiday season!
The perfect gift for your loved one
Give your Melbourne based family member or friend the gift of a one on one organising session and start their journey towards a clutter-free and organised life.
Each organising session is tailor-made to the unique requirements of your family member or friend.
Great for a joint gift where the whole family or a group of friends can pitch in for an organising session, instead of buying your loved one more ‘stuff’.
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