How Subscription Services – from Flowers to Foodie Items to Wine – Make it a Win-Win at the Holidays

This holiday season, why not offer a heartfelt gift that keeps giving throughout the year ahead? It’s great to bestow something that truly fits in with the recipient’s lifestyle, ensuring that they cherish both the thoughtfulness and the present itself!  Try one of these memberships for mindful, considerate and exciting gift options that will have them thinking of you all year.
For the Beauty-Lover: Birchbox
Created in 2010 by two sharp ladies, Birchbox was founded “to create a better way to shop for beauty products.” Each month your beauty aficionado will receive a box of five sample products personalized for her based on her Beauty Profile. For the first order, you can choose to give them a Now Trending Box which includes a collection of the trendiest make-up samples, or a Customer Favorites Box filled with top-rated supplies that comes in festive holiday packaging.  After the recipient gets her first box, she can fill out her own Beauty Profile and continue to get customized products she’ll love.
Birchbox’s online gift subscription process makes it quick and easy, with options for three, six, or twelve month subscriptions.  They also have a Men’s Subscription option for the grooming guys in your life.

For the Wine Drinker: Club W
This wine club is great because it takes the hassle out of selecting wine and giving new bottles to try. Club W creates a Palate Profile by asking six simple questions about flavors, then generates a personal curated wine list for that individual. Each month a new recommendation is sent based on the profile. They also have an option to select bottles with “100% satisfaction guaranteed,” – i.e. if your recipient doesn’t like it, you don’t pay for it. In addition, there’s always the option to skip a month or cancel at any time. In short, Club W makes it easy (and delicious) to gift to a friend: simply choose an amount, write a personal note, and they’ll send everything directly to them.

For the Zen Master: Yogi Surprise
Yogi Surprise prides themselves on sending “a yoga retreat in a box” each month, via yoga-inspired care packages. Their goal: to support wellness, connection, and joy. Yogi Surprise has a gifting option to make it even easier for you to send to a loved one: choose from the Yoga Lifestyle Box (6-8 full sized yoga lifestyle items) or the Yoga Jewelry Box (two jewelry pieces and chocolate) with the option to choose from a three, six, or twelve month delivery plan. Free shipping comes automatically with every box.

For the Home Cook: Blue Apron
Do you have friends who love watching cooking shows, are always coming up with great recipes, and throw great dinner parties — or do you know someone who loves to cook, but never gets around to it? Blue Apron is a great gift subscription for any of them: the company takes the stress out of choosing what’s for dinner three times a week by sending fresh ingredients and recipes so the home cook can improve their cooking skills. The meals take about 40-45 minutes to prepare, are pre-portioned, and contain specialty (often hard to find) products. Blue Apron always has free shipping with options to skip or cancel at any time, so you can choose the length of your gift.

For the Flower Lover (or the office): The Bouqs Co.
Headquartered in California, The Bouqs Co. was founded in 2012 with the mission to make ordering flowers online quick, easy, and eco-friendly. Sourced from sustainable farms and grown either on an active volcano (!) — garnering, as the website notes, “the most sun of any roses in the world” — or from the American coast lines, the flowers are cut the day you order, so they arrive fresh and flourishing.

Although you can order from them as a one-time delivery, The Bouqs Co. has a subscription service in three categories paired with a free, easy to use app. Their concierge service for subscriptions makes your custom deliveries easier than ever: choose from regular deliveries (ideal for keeping fresh flowers in the home or office) with weekly, monthly, or quarterly options. The “Special Occasions” delivery option allows you to pre-schedule so you’ll never scurry at the last minute for a gift again. Lastly, you can choose the “Just Because” subscription where you arrange the amount of times per year a bouquet gets sent out (great for surprising loved ones all year round). Who doesn’t love fresh flowers? Keep this in mind as you are checking off your gifting list, allowing you to give uplifting moments of joy all year long.