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No Cooking After the First Day Of School Teacher Gift

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Send a no cooking pass for a back to school teacher gift this year to give your favorite educator a much needed break after the chaos of a brand new school year.

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Back to school already! But this year I think everyone is ready for a little normalcy after the 2020 quarantine. 

Whether you are sending your kids back to the classroom or have chosen a virtual option, you will want to remember your teacher on the first day back to school! And what better way than a pass for no cooking after a long day of teaching. 

I don’t know about you but after a long and stressful day (hello trying to social distance & keep masks on a bunch of 6 year olds – bless them all!) I just don’t feel like cooking. So that is where this idea came from to give a simple meal to our new teacher to give her a break on that first day back to school.

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No Cooking After the First Day Of School Teacher Gift

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This teacher gift has all of my favorite qualities. 

  • You can grab it at a grocery store or a drug store. 
  • The Free Printable tag is just print & trim.
  • Can be any value that you choose! You grab any value pizza gift card. ($5 Little Caesars Hot N Ready or more depending on your budget)
  • It is practical – everyone has to eat!

So if you want to make a no cooking after the first day of school teacher gift, head to your local drug store and grab these items that you need.

What You Need:

  • Small Gift Bag & Tissue Paper
  • Pizza Delivery Gift Card
  • Free Printable Tag (see below) 
  • Twine, Ribbon or Tape 

Making the Back to School Teacher Present

To treat your new favorite teacher to a relaxing evening off from cooking, first print the free printable gift tag. 

Click Here For Free Printable

This School Year Will Be Different - Teacher Delivery Gift - Pizza Pie

Next, attach the tag to the gift card with your ribbon or tape & sign the card (or have your child do it). 

Place the gift in your gift bag & have your child deliver it to their hard working teacher. 

It is such a simple way to say thank you but one that will be so appreciated. 

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Unique Father’s Day Gift Featuring A Custom Fragrance

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A unique Father’s Day Gift Featuring A Custom Fragrance

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I just ordered a unique Father’s Day gift for my husband that I wanted to share with you all. We all know that it is tough year after year finding something fun and interesting for the Daddy of your babies! Sometimes it feels like I buy the same grill set or polo shirt year after year. But not this time!

I was actually scrolling through Facebook last weekend and an ad popped up from Hawthorne. Maybe I am living under a rock but I had never heard of that company. The ad intrigued me so I clicked and I am so glad that I did. In just a couple of minutes, a custom fragrance set was on its way just in time for Father’s Day.

How Does It Work?

Head to their website. You will complete a quick profile of your guy. They ask questions about his diet, cocktail of choice, and his work environment. It takes about 5 minutes to fill out the questions, maybe less.

Then Hawthorne presents a set of fragrance options customized to your man for you to choose. There is a “Work” cologne and a “Play” cologne option. You can choose to purchase one or you get a discount if you buy both. I went ahead and tried the combo set that included the Work & Play fragrance set.

Unique Father’s Day Gift – Custom Cologne Set

What’s Inside?

Hawthorne Shipping Box Personalized

The packaging really added to the product itself. When I opened the brown shipping box, inside was a nice black and white graphic with my husband’s name handwritten inside.

Hawthorne Black Box

The cologne comes in a black box with a simple white “Hawthorne” logo in the bottom right corner. Once you open that, a note shows that this is a gift from me to him. It also gives a short detail about the makers of his custom scent.

Hawthorne Gift Card

If you turn this card over, the scent profile (from the answers that I provided online) are hand circled.

The sleek black box that holds the cologne bottles opens to reveal both bottles. The bottles are nestled in the box lined in velvet.

Hawthorne Custom Fragrance Set

The scent is of course the most important part when selecting a fragrance. Buying a fragrance online that I had no experience with was a little scary, but I am so glad I took the plunge. The scents for both are much more than I expected and I think my husband will love it.

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The Play is probably my favorite but I like both. The play that we received is a warm scent with just a tiny hint of spicy sweet. The Work is a light and fresh smelling cologne.  Both scents are appealing and I think they make a unique and interesting Father’s Day gift.

Play Cologne by Hawthorne

Do you have a unique Father’s Day gift idea for this year?

Personalized Fragrance Kit