5 Green Gift Ideas for Home
Posted by albertareid on September 4th, 2012
Just one more month and we’ll be welcoming again the season of merrymaking and gift giving. A lot of us, during this season prefer to buy ready – made, pre-packaged products. While it’s true that most of us really do wish that we receive such gadgets, wouldn’t it be nice and unique to receive green gifts? Listed below are five green gift ideas that you may want to consider for a unique presentation this coming season:
- Solar outdoor light. Giving a green gift like this helps the receiver save some money from their electricity bill. Another benefit of a solar outdoor light is that you can use it anywhere as long as there is direct sunlight unlike electricity where you need access to a conventional source of power. There are a lot of stores and websites offering these.
- Solar house number sign – searching for a house during the night may be strenuous especially if there is no house number sign on it, or even if there is, it is not readable or not visible. One of the unique green gift ideas to give is a solar house number sign. The mechanism of this is that during the day the built-in solar panel it absorbs energy from the sun and stores it in the battery so during the night it glows.
- Solar lantern – this energy efficient lighting device is perfect to lighten your party or add it as part of your decoration. The solar lantern is also great to place it indoors and will give you mood lighting as long as it is receiving direct sunlight. You may also have it hanging on a tree in your backyard garden.
- Solar universal charger – well, if you plan to give someone a high-tech gadget, present this green gift as part of your package. This charger may be used with cell phones, iPod, GPS, PDA or any devices of the same category. The solar universal charger is built to last and comeshandy when enjoying outdoor activities.
- Gift cards – perhaps the simplest, environmentally friendly gift to give are gift cards. You can also turn to this option when you are uncertain what gift to give. You can purchase these online or from physical stores.
Aside from those listed above, there are also other green gift ideas that you can find in your own home or purchase other forms of green gifts from stores and websites.
More and more peopleconsider green gifts a great, unique way of expressing gratitude. The best green gift ideas are ones that may also include part of them manually made, creating a more personal gift.
