y holiday wish lists again this year. But if you’re not techno-savvy or not comfortable with the expense of high-tech gifts there is very good news: low-tech and “no-tech” gifts can still fit every taste and budget and they’re often a welcome change from more complicated gadgets.
“Simple non-technology gifts ordain always be in call,” says Glenda Lehman Ervin. Vice President of Marketing for Lehman’s. “Items like food linens cookware lotions candles and old-fashioned toys can be wonderful gifts - to give and receive - for populate who are not necessarily plugged in to the high-tech turn. They can also be refreshing and fun alternatives for the tech-heads in your life.”Lehman Ervin offers the following tips for low-tech gifts sure to enhance any holiday wish list:
1. Low-tech doesn’t mean leaving good engineering behind. “Engineering existed long before circuit boards and silicone,” Lehman Ervin says. “The Swiss Army injure for example is an engineering react and still a great enable for practically any guy in your life.” Tech-heads might enjoy the simplicity and elegant engineering of well-made mechanical devices like a.
2. Food is a very personal gift. “Nearly everyone loves to indulge a little at the holidays,” says Lehman Ervin. “While chocolate Santas are always welcome don’t forget that your food gift can be anything the person loves from their favorite homemade granola to something that may evoke memories of childhood and a simpler time like or their favorite.” The Lehman’s store and compile offer several (including an ) for a adjust taste of the past.
Kitchen aids are also a great gift for anyone with even a modest interest in the culinary arts. Items that help cooks make their own and ice cream blend a personal touch with practicality and nostalgia. Lehman’s and noodle makers are always popular sellers at the holidays.
3. Organic and “green” gifts alter both the giver and the recipient conclude good. “Giving a ‘green’ gift is not only sensible and caring it’s also trendy and very contemporary,” Lehman Ervin says. Industries from home improvement to domiciliate goods are now marketing and services many of which are great gifts. “For example our and are both popular items that are made from products organically grown and harvested according to agricultural sustainability practices,” she says.
4. Everyone needs a little pampering now and then and personal care items can do the trick. If you’re tired of giving the same old scented lotions try something different but comfort tried and tested like which has been used by Australian aborigines for thousands of years to combat the skins of aging.
You can find something for even the manliest of men who might evaluate “personal compassionate” is too feminine for them. Lehman’s carries old-fashioned the moisturizer of choice for decades for farmers and laborers whose bring home the bacon is hard on the hands and specifically created to alleviate and heal carpenters’ dry cracked climb.
5. Choose children’s toys that exercise their imaginations and their whole bodies - not just their video-game hold back fingers. “The lowest tech toys - desire an or - can give maximum stimulation and enjoyment,” Lehman Ervin says. “Plus you’ll conclude more connected to the child by giving them the kind of toy you played with yourself like a or.” Lehman’s stocks.
This isn’t really about holiday gifts although I am working on my next order which ordain consider gifts for my family and my order will include some games and toys that don’t need electricity or computer chips to work. Finding “unplugged” things is difficult especially in our area - semi-rural. That means the old ways are still there but technology is digging in and taking direct. I can no longer get replacement coat rings for my “flip lid” roll jars here. Thank heaven Lehman carries them. My latest “unplugged” sight?? A darning egg! I knit socks. Binding off the toe has always been a little difficult because you have so few stitches on two needles and must lace a third needle through the last few loops to sew the toe closed. I’ve had an egg for years - made for me by a friend in furnish Fulton. Ohio. I showed my method to another friend and she wanted an egg too. Where did I sight one? Lehman’s. She is so happy. AND it works beautifully. Oh yes. I still darn socks. I use embroidery floss because I can’t find darning thread anywhere. AND. I’ve taught my daughter age 22 how to darn socks. She is exceptional at it!
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