Eight Crazy Nights of Gift Giving!

In 1996 Adam Sandler famously sang about the magic of the season in his now famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) Chanukah Song! 

For many Gen Xers and Millennials this song is as much a symbol of the Festival of Lights, as oil fried latkes or the miracle of the eternal flames that kept the menorah lit for eight glorious days!  Thus, in order to commemorate this marvelous event we celebrate eight exalted days of gift giving and merriment during Chanukah. 

Here is a gift giving guide to brighten the pad of the college student in your life for each of those eight crazy nights!

Space Organizers:  Collegiate life means very little space for very much stuff.  Help out by giving organizers to optimize space and keep everything neat.  Ikea is a great place to start, they have a wide range of well-designed organizational products that not only make small spaces feel big, but add style and sophistication!

Breakfast Sandwich Maker:  Much like space, time is also in short supply and this dandy little device is perfect for quickly preparing a nutritious breakfast.  In only five minutes, your college student can have a five-star breakfast sandwich at a fraction of the cost you’d pay at a restaurant.

Multi Charging Station and Organizer: In keeping with our theme of maximizing space, this device allows users to charge multiple items at one time using only one outlet!  Yep, you heard it right, cell phones, tablets, computers and more can be charged quickly and simultaneously.  This will allow for better tech gadget management and efficiency.

Water Garden:  The water garden and its beefier counterpart, the Water Garden Deluxe, is basically an aquafarm.  You can grow edible kitchen herbs on top of an aquarium for your beta fish.  This is an amazing self-contained system that mimics the natural relationship between plant and wildlife, the fish provides the fertilizer for the herbs and the herbs provide clean, freshly oxygenated water!  A genius gift idea from, get this…two college students!

A Wooden Crate:  Okay, so at first blush this idea might seem absurd, but hear me out.  For the inventive, artsy, do-it-yourself type, a wooden crate is a premium opportunity to create virtually anything one can imagine!  They’re a pretty hip when used as end tables, coffee tables, night stands or even storage.   The possibilities are limitless!

Contemporary Bean Bag chairs:  These are not your grandma’s 70’s era bean bag chair.  These new innovations on an old favorite are more colorful, with embellished geometrical designs that are aimed to be comfortable inexpensive sitting, and trendy conversation starters! 

Wall Mounted Bike Rack:  Free up some floor space while creating really chic art using your mounted bike!  There are a huge variety of mount types and prices, so have an idea of where the mount will go in order to select what fits best for the space.

Cash:  Cash will ALWAYS be Queen of any gift giving season.  But giving cash doesn’t have to be boring.  You can turn an ordinary menorah card into a cash menorah card, by rolling the bills into the candles.  Pinterest has several other fun cash giving ideas.

So put on your yarmulke and have a happy, happy, happy, happy Chanukah!