Unique Anniversary Gifts

Just remember the couple for who they are and remember who you are and the style in which you want to gift them.

Some History

Emily Post, the first published (American) author on etiquette informed us in 1922 that although only eight anniversaries were acknowledged, there was a trend toward celebrating other anniversaries.

She put together a list anniversary gift ideas for each of the first 15 years of marriage and one for every 5 years after. We still use this list today even after the American National Retail Jeweler Association upgraded it in 1937.

Using the idea that the longer a couple is married, the more substantial and lasting the gift should be to represent the years married, our society now uses the list below.

I've put a table together with as many options as could be found from various sources on the internet. Either widely accepted or rare or called alternates, this arrangement gives you scads of potential ideas for unique anniversary gifts.

Hmmm. If you think about it, this list is just a guideline, a starting point. What you make of it is entirely up to you. Follow the rules or make your own. Think past the common. Be aware of your desire to get a specific reaction from the gifts given by you.

And whilst your eyes dart back and forth in this table, you'll be getting sleepy....back and forth...sleepy...sleepier....and you'll start to think of an anniversary that is on the horizon....

Be sure to look over the unique anniversary gifts we've conjured up!

Anniversary Gift Ideas to Inspire Unique Anniversary Gifts

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Probably, giving a freezer won't be classified under a unique anniversary gifts list, but you can make it so. And it will surely be remembered by the WHAT, WHO and WHEN because you took the time to be an informed and aware gift giver. Plus you'll have added the right touch.

Most probably so.

Reading my local paper, I came across a story entitled "Freezer Burned" by Canadian Columnist Nils LING. I was thoroughly entertained and have tried to capture what we all know when it comes to owning a freezer...

I went to the freezer the other day on an archaeological dig for something to eat...Because it is a chest freezer that loads from the top, older food always ends up at the bottom. So you lean over the side and go down into the belly of the beast, layer by layer, era by era, to find something for dinner. It's a chilly trip down memory lane.

Here was the Great Ground Beef Sale of '06. The Special Diet Soup Phase of '04. The Something in an Unlabeled, Recycled Margarine Container of '02. And downward, until you're rooting through unidentifiable plastic tubs, possibly filled with some sort of food, that were placed in there before the fall of the Berlin Wall. ...I pulled from the bottom of the freezer...that had been stuffed in a couple of plastic bags...I knew what she (wife) would say if she caught me with it: "Oh, don't throw that out, I'll use it to make soup." Well, I'll tell you what...
And that's when I came up with it.

When you give the freezer, start the new owners off right. Put an unidentifiable package of mystery at the bottom labeled "The Mascot of the Burn". There. The freezer has it's first rightful occupant.

All is right in the world. And each anniversary gift you give can be as memorable as this.
Note: I made mine from plastic food that you can buy in the toy section of any department or grocery store. The label is made from a canning jar lid.

Oh, and don't forget to tie a big blue or green ribbon around the freezer. Now it can be classified under unique anniversary gifts.

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