Step1Organizing's Clutter-Free Gift Ideas 2020
You want less clutter in your life. So do your friends and family! Here are 23 largely clutter-free gift ideas to help you all achieve that goal. A couple of them actually take clutter away..
Charity Gifts
A Year of School for a Child
International Rescue Committee
Focused on Areas Facing Humanitarian Crises
help Families Out of Poverty
Heifer International
Focused on Ending Hunger
Faith-Based, Focused on Children
Memberships
Museum or Theater Memberships
These make great gifts because they can use year round. Perfect for people with or without children. They will always think of you when they use it. Many come with extra perks too. For example a Smithsonian membership offers discounts in the stores and restaurants at all museums and a subscription to their wonderful magazine.
Digital Entertainment...
We are all paying coming and going for the entertainment we love. Things like Spotify, Hulu, Netflix, Xbox Live, Sirius XM, Amazon Prime, YouTubeRed. Take one off the list for someone and pay for a few months or the full year.
Experiences
Experiences have the double benefit of creating a lifelong memory for someone, and generating some endorphins more than any package could. If you can afford it, make it an even better gift by doing it with them!
Experiences have the double benefit of creating a lifelong memory for someone, and generating some endorphins more than any package could. If you can afford it, make it an even better gift by doing it with them!
Go-Karting
Motorcycle Tours & Rentals for a weekend? Nationwide locations.
BMW Driving Experiences - Not for those on a budget, but REALLY cool.
Consumables
Of course, gifts that disappear gradually are also clutter free. These consumable gifts are not only clutter free, they keep on giving long after the holidays.
Hamama Seed Quilts
This California-based business started by a couple of MIT grads makes seed quilts that allow you to grow delicious healthy supergreens on your kitchen counter in just a week.
Monthly Food Clubs
Gifts that keep on giving, but disappear monthly. On Amazon alone you can buy a monthly club for Hot sauce, Cookies, Olive Oil, Exotic Game Snack, Coffee, Sausage/Cheese, Tea, Jelly Beans, Chocolate, Pizza, Gourmet Bacon, Fudge, Healthy Snacks. Harry & David offers fruit, wine, popcorn, cookies, flowers and more
Bath Products
Bath Products give the gift of relaxation, are usually pretty, smell good, and get used up...Check out the subscriptions available at CrateJoy.
Services
Identity Theft Protection
For your especially paranoid family and friends...A subscription to an identity theft protection service. Not cheap, but could save them in a big way if needed. To help you decide, here's a review of some of the major services.
Geneology
DNA testing companies like 23 and Me, Ancestry, and Family Tree DNA all offer holiday discounts on their kits & memberships. Find out where you're REALLY from, even get genetic health information.
Massage
“Dang, I really didn’t want a massage gift certificate”. Said no one, ever. This is a can’t fail gift… Want to make it more unique? Suggest a style they may not have tried before--Thai, Hot Stone, Cranio-Sacral, Reflexology ...lots of options. Go local if you can with gift certificates and support someone if the pandemic has slowed business.
Meals
Menu Service
Help take the thinking out of weekly meal planning with a menu service. I don’t know what I did before No More To Go came into my life. Every week a customizable menu comes to my inbox for every day of the following week and it generates a shopping list for me. What makes this service stand out and worth the monthly fee to me, is that there is so much variety, and every meal is delicious. Also, they’ve partnered with Amazon Fresh - with a click you can get the whole shopping list delivered.
Home Cooked Meals
Is your friend or family member too busy to cook? Offer a gift certificate for a set of homemade frozen meals they can pop in the oven or microwave. Here are some nice recipe options from Pioneer Woman. & ThrivingHome
Education
Give the gift of learning with the The Great Courses online learning program. Available in many price ranges and every topic you can imagine. Some are on sale for as much as 70% right now.
Got a crafty friend? Or aspiring crafty friend? Crafting classes of all kinds-sew, quilt, photo, baking...all available online at sites like this Craftsy.
Help them finally learn that language - Rosetta Stone
Memory Preservation
Kid Art
This one will actually help them eliminate clutter by giving them a way to deal with years of kids artwork. Artkive will take all your kid art and turn it into a beautiful photo book for you. Just pack it in a box and send it on its way.
Photos & Videos-Digital
Many of us live in fear that our phone or PC will die one day, taking all our treasured photos with it. The Picture Keeper has the solution. Plug it in, all photos are saved. Yes. That simple. Give someone the gift of peace of mind about their photos.
Photos & Videos- Actual
What about those generations worth of printed photos & videos? Buy a Legacy Box, fill it with treasures, ship it off. All come back to you preserved in digital form. They always run holiday specials.
Professional Photo Organizer Services
If you know someone overwhelmed by countless photos, let a professional help. Buy a gift certificate from a professional photo organizer like Andi Willis at Good Life Photo Solutions.