The 2012 Smarty Holiday Gift Guide is sponsored by Toys & Co in Cotswold and Park Road Shopping Center. Find everything on Santa’s list at Toys & Co! And, they will wrap every gift BEAUTIFULLY and oh-so-expertly. They are the toy experts so they will help you source a gift if you are not sure what to get.
Continuing with our 2012 Smarty Holiday Gift Guide Series, I bring you the ultimate guide for the hardest age group to buy for, tweens & teens.
The number one gift requested by most tweens and teens for years running is definitely C-A-S-H! This is especially true for boys. Yes, it seems a bit boring to give, but trust me, they’ll love you for it! But, if you feel like you need to step up your cool-factor with this age group, we compiled a list of ideas below to suit many different price ranges. Also, if you have a child who may be falling right in between age levels this year (kinda like a tween-tween!), be sure to check our gift ideas for ages 10-12. These ideas roll for your own kids, nieces/nephews and even your babysitters.
For the Techy Teen
The Apple Store deserves it’s own category, since we all bow down to the hippest of hip computer and gadget haven!
iTunes Gift Cards – all ages will love this.
iTouch – My reco is to ditch any thought of investing in a Nintendo DS and switch to the iTouch. You will pay a little more in the initial investment but you will save tons on the games – most apps are free or at most $1.99. We have a free app only policy in the Plym house.
MacBook Air laptop or pc laptop – you can justify this with the educational component. You can’t ever have enough laptops in a house full of teens.
iPad Mini/Nook HD/Kindle Fire tablets – cheaper version of a laptop. You can’t go wrong with any of these devices. It will depend if you are a loyal mac fan – if you’re not, you’ll save some serious coin with the other two!
Speakers and accessories for iTouch/iPod/iPad – how cute are these Lilly accessories?
Lilly Pulitzer Accessories for iPhone & iPad:
Lilly Pulitzer Speaker for iPod – so cute!
Cell phone – the iPhone/Android smart phones are at the top of the list for obvious reasons. My suggestion if you take the plunge is to set up rules and parameters to offset that monthly data plan. Pretty soon, smart phones will be the only option.
Boogie Board Rip LCD eWriter, click here to enter to win one in our Smarty Toy Giveaway!
Gamestop gift cards
Gaming Systems: Wii U & Xbox Kinect are the latest and greatest. We still have the old school Wii – not ready to invest in a new system and games at $50 a pop. It’s Wii or bust in the Plym house! We’re looking forward to the new Just Dance 4. Makes for super fun wintery Friday night dance parties!
As always, with all technology gadgets, make sure you set up parental controls on all devices, your router, your cell provider, etc. You can’t ever be too safe. More on this topic in the new year!
For Her:
Girls love all things monogrammed! Here is a fab necklace from Sercie.
Hunger Games inspired Bow & Arrow Set
For Him:
A Zike Saber – he’ll be the coolest kid on the block. Click here to win a Zike Fly By (up to age 10) in our Smarty Toy Giveaway!
For both:
Carowinds Season Passes – they have a promotion going on right now – Buy Now, Pay Later! No payment until March 13, 2013. Smarty alert – we are having a Toy Shopping Extravaganza on Tuesday, December 4th at Toys & Co – we’ll have prizes, 15% off everything discount, we’ll announce our Smarty Toy Giveaway winners and guess what? We’ll be giving away passes to Carowinds – awesome, huh?!
Camp Under the Tree – Camp Sea Gull/Seafarer, Camp Harrison, Camp Thunderbird, Camp Cheerio, Camp Ton-A-Wondah, or Camp Greystone are all amazing camps in our state!
It’s Giveaways Galore here in Smartyland – we have 9 giveaways going on right now with over $3,000 worth of holiday loot!
The 2012 Holiday Swag Bag – last day to enter to win is December 6th!
It’s our favorite time of year in Smartyland ~ that time when we give and give BIG we will! This one will put the swag in your swagger this holiday season as we kick off the much anticipated 2012 Smarty Swag Bag holiday giveaway. We have scoured the QC and deliver our favorite digs to you, just because we {heart} Y-O-U, Smarty Charlotte!
We present over $2,000 worth of fabulous Smarty Swag…You can’t win if you don’t enter!!! Click here for details!
Holiday Toy Giveaways 1-9
Click here to read up on all of the toy giveaways this week. You have to enter each one to be eligible to win. You can’t win if you don’t enter! Happy Smartydays!
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Nexus 7 is a great option too! Full Android, can apply pin for Google Play store to block apps, mature, med mature, low mature etc! Same price as Kindle and you can add the Kindle App as well to have use of your Kindle account!