Elegant (albeit generic) winter holiday gift card tin
Even though this gift-card-in-a-tin is designed to be a generic holiday gift, I purchased it as a birthday gift for a friend with a winter birthday because none of the Amazon birthday designs I saw appealed to me and because I liked the idea of a reusable gift card container. (I may be wrong, but I don't believe any of Amazon's birthday gift cards are packaged in tins.) The design of this one is obviously intended to be suitable for any winter holiday -- Christmas, New Year, Hanukkah (note that this snowflake has six points, like the Star of David, and is blue, the official Hanukkah color), Kwanzaa, Festivus, etc. This generic design worked in my favor because I intended to use it for a birthday gift, but if I had been shopping for a holiday gift, I would have preferred a design specific to that particular holiday.<br /><br />I generally avoid giving people gift cards because I find them impersonal (as well as for other practical reasons that I won't go into here), but when I do, I prefer to present them in gift containers instead of just slipping them into cards for a couple of reasons: a package make the gift card a bit less guessable and reduces the chance that the gift card will be overlooked or discarded by mistake, as can happen when it's enclosed in a card. However, I also try to be environmentally responsible and choose packaging, like this tin, that can be re-used over and over, in place of wrapping paper that is often thrown out after a single use.<br /><br />One selling feature for this Amazon card was that at the time I bought it, it came with free one-day shipping. I'm a Prime member, so I would have gotten &#34;free&#34; 2-day shipping anyway, but as a chronic procrastinator, every little bit helps.<br /><br />Overall, I was pleased with this gift card/gift tin and thought it looked rather classy, as far as gift card boxes go, and it's likely that I'll purchase another (or similarly packaged gift card) next year.
Rating: 4 stars