Here’s another clever gift-in-the-mail idea from the Dollar Store Diva! What little kid wouldn’t love receiving this?
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My postal clerk actually enjoys seeing me coming; she is fascinated by the objects I send in the mail.
When I first brought these goodies home from the Dollar Store, I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do with them:
a 6-pack of bottled water,
a bag of Twizzlers [who doesn’t love Twizzlers],
and some lemonade singles powder packets.
I only knew that I wanted to slap some stamps on the bottles and send a bit of sunshine via the USPS.
And then I thought of my sweet grandchildren in far-off Kansas–three of their birthdays are in June! They are always happy with their usual birthday card with Grandpa and Grandma’s usual cash gift, but this year I wanted them to also get something fun in the mail.
Kayla’s birthday came first; in her emptied and thoroughly dried water bottle I put an assortment of the drink packets and some plastic straws surrounded by celebrative pink grass. Audrie’s bottle was filled with bright red Twizzlers; Brandon’s had Twizzlers and several fruit-flavored freezer pops–not yet frozen, of course 🙂
I wrapped colored paper around the label on the bottles, added their address, and at the time of each birthday, headed off to the post office.
Three times my friendly postmaster smiled, applied the stamps, and sent the little gifts across the miles.
And three times, a certain mail box in Kansas contained a plastic bottle filled with sunshine.
xoxo
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For those of you who haven’t met her, the Dollar Store Diva happens to be my Mom who has a special power. She can transform Dollar Store and other inexpensive finds into super fun gifts that would brighten anyone’s day!
Nancy- what a lovely, loving idea! I’ll bet every postal worker who saw these had to smile : ) i’m sure it brought a little bit of sunshine to their day.
Thank you, Esther, for the kind remarks. As hard as my postal worker works, I think she deserves a smile now and then 🙂
This is awesome! These can be delivered via USPS without needing a box?
Good question, Grace, and yes, indeed they can! Stay tuned because I will be sharing other ideas for fun things to send via USPS.