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Graduation time is coming for high school and college seniors. The ideal gift will recognizes this milestone. Whether your gift is silly or sentimental, fun or functional deciding on what to give you new graduate is part of the fun. Knowing you picked the gift that brings a smile to your graduates' face is the rest. Here are a few suggestions to brighten your graduate's day.

General Gifts

1. Digital Camera: A digital camera is a wonderful way to record those last memorable days of school. Do your graduate a favor and give this gift a week or two early so they have it for all the graduation festivities.

2. Cellular Phone: If your graduate has a cellular phone this might be a time to upgrade, if they don't have a phone now is the time to get them one so they can keep in touch with their family and friends. Include a pre-paid years worth of service as part of your gift. Include a small address/telephone book with an inscription that encourages them to fill it out so if something happens to their phone they haven't lost their information.

3. Luggage: Luggage makes a great gift whether your graduate has immediate plans to travel or plans to travel sometime in the future. The patterns on the luggage can be plain or fancy to reflect your graduate's unique taste. Adding a special luggage tag can make finding luggage a breeze on the airline turnstiles. Other surprises can be added inside the luggage such as travel blanket, pillows, or an iPod for the journey.

4. Travel: Travel can be expensive but it will give your graduate a unique view of the world. Sending your graduate on the trip of a lifetime can be an enriching life experience.

Setting Up Home Keeping Gifts

5. Pantry Shower: It is expensive to purchase the staples for your first kitchen. A gift of items such as flour, sugar, salt, pepper, condiments and spices can be perfect when paired with a gift card for perishables.

6. Laundry Basket: A laundry basket filled with laundry soap (hopefully, environmentally friendly) spot remover, a roll of quarters, and a book on how to do laundry is a useful choice! Additional items, such as bath towels, a shower curtain, and kitchen linens can also be included.

7. Book: There are so many things your new grad will need to know once they are living on there own. Unless your grad likes to wear all pink clothing which is what will happen when they mix hot water with their red and white clothes, you may want to give them the book, "How to Do Just About Everything" by Courtney Rosen. It

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