I confess that I’m usually a registry shopper: When it comes to weddings and baby showers, I’m a slacker. I have a tendency to pop online and pick whatever looks nice and in within my budget, click yes on “gift wrap,” add an oh-so-personal note, and call it a day. This leaves more time for me to obsess over my own outfit and talk myself into a new purse. But it’s also that I know that my gift is going to be something that the couple or parents actually want.
But here’s a gift that might convert me, at least for recipients in the southern Ontario region: Samba Days.
It works like this – you buy one of the gift packs which contains a variety of activities. The recipient choses one and redeems the certificate to get going. Adventures include spa treatments, yoga classes, hang gliding, and Porsche driving, to name a few. That is so neat! The boxes are pretty (click on the thumbnail to check them out). And the chances are still high that the person who’s getting the gift is still going to be able to choose something he or she actually likes.
I found about these via Aeroplan so I’m going to give them a plug: If you buy Samba days through them you get Aeroplan points, and if you want to buy the gift packs with points (hey…more money for purses) you can do that here too.
So now the big question, since I have family across the country: Anyone know of anything like this outside of Ontario?
