This is an article which is all about thinking outside of the box. The gift box, that is! To get more inventive with your birthday present ideas you need to stop thinking about what you'd usually get someone and start looking at what is out there instead! Go backwards; look at what is on offer first and then choose something so good you'd never dreamt it was possible.
Don't assume that dreams can't come true. Your girlfriend might talk about how she wishes she could fly and you might nod along thinking that's impossible. But is it? With an experience day you could buy her a chance to get up in to the sky in a glider or a small aircraft and have an introductory lesson. That's just one of many birthday present ideas most of wouldn't come up with on our own!
Equally, your much loved brother or best friend might say: "Damn, I wish I was a rally driver. That looks like so much fun..." and when you work in the supermarket, is indeed unlikely that you'll become a rally driver overnight. However, with an experience day your friend could tear up the road at Silverstone in a high power Ferrari sports car for the day!
We're all pretty guilty of coming up with run-of-the-mill samey birthday present ideas. However, the best birthday present ideas might not actually come from your head; they might come from someone else's! Most of us wrongly assume that there's a limit to the potential gifts that are out there but far from being limited, there's more on offer than ever before.
Out of the BoxWhen it comes to presents we're all slightly obsessed with the fact that they come in boxes, aren't we? Usually, birthday presents are covered in wrapping paper and are tied off with a pretty bow, but the truth is there are plenty of gifts which exist 'outside' of the box too. Experience days are one of them and one that we love because there is such an enormous range of different experiences out there to be enjoyed, from thrilling fun days in cars, on bikes, on boats and in the air, through to chocolate making workshops, cookery lessons, concerts and dance classes.
The choice is totally endless! A few years ago, setting up those sorts of experiences would have been really difficult and have taken plenty of money and organisation but now, it's as easy as ordering any other kind or gift. You can just get online and pay by credit or debit card and then get all the details for a special day sent to your recipient by post, or delivered to you, so that you can hand the certificates, vouchers and information over by hand.
There is even a selection of Experience Days which is priced under 30 each with a few of those for under 20! For under 30 you can get a cinema trip for 4, a motor sport entrance for two to watch some real races or a food and drink discovery experience. When it comes to spending more money the gifts just get increasingly extravagant, there are opportunities to go on helicopter rides, go tandem sky diving or even go up in a hot air balloon! You can even buy a romantic night in a 4 5 star hotel as an experience gift or get a luxurious dinner cruise on the Thames for 2.
Share the Joy
Another super thing about Experience Days is that you can actually join in too if you want to because there are lots of them available for two people as well as just one birthday boy or girl. You could take in some sights in an historic city together or learn to salsa; in fact there are tons of packages suitable for couples or for a pair of best buddies to do with each other. Ordinary gifts can get put in an old drawer and forgotten about but real, exciting, indulgent or enthralling experiences are entirely unforgettable.
Live the Dream
The tagline for Experience Days is 'live the dream' because so often there are things that we dream about doing or experiences we wish we were having, but we don't think that we ever will. By thinking more creatively and being inventive with birthday present ideas, you could celebrate someone turning another year older by giving them the chance to do something that they'll remember for the rest of their life!
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