Cheap Holiday Gift Ideas For Your Teen Nephew
Although most of us esteem to give a lot of holiday gifts to children, nephews, and nieces, many times for the older children and especially teens if you focus on areas they are eager in you can get away without spending a lot on Holiday gifts. Following are only eight ideas for the teen nephew you may have been debating on what to buy for this holiday season.
Holiday Gift Card (Pre-paid VISA or MasterCard)
Teenagers worship prepaid credit cards. Primarily because it gives them a sense of freedom to buy something that we as ‘boring adults’ probably wouldn’t think of getting them. Another nice thing with most prepaid credit cards is that you can buy in varying dollar increments, so whether you are going to give your favorite nephew $20 or $200 you can purchase the amount that best fits your holiday budget!
iTunes Gift Card
You can get an Itunes gift card at any Target for varying increments up to $50 if you like to give something tangible as your gift to your teen nephew. If you aren’t going to see your nephew you can also buy the same gift credit online and send to him. Most teens know how to take an Itunes credit, download the music, and export to their MP3 player…even if they aren’t using an Ipod. Don’t worry about the fact that you might not know how to do so—they will.
Amazon Gift Card
In unusual years, Amazon has widely expanded their stores reach, offering just about anything you can think of for sale that a teen would want to have as a present. Anything from clothes, electronics, books, games, computers, and so forth. Another nice feature with Amazon is that you can select and print a gift certificate in minutes if you are running behind and say impartial ‘forgot’ to rep your teen nephews Christmas gift hours before going to the family dinner!
Think of Gamefly as the Netflix equivalent for video games. It costs $22.95 per month for membership, so you can give one or many months to your teen nephew depending on your budget. Gamefly lets the teen have up to 2 video games out at a time (think one in the mail and one with the teen at any one time). It also has a very wide selection of games (over 6,000 titles) across all of the major gaming systems, so you don’t even need to worry about trying to figure out which gaming console they are using. I would recommend checking with the parents to effect sure he doesn’t already have a membership with Gamefly. For most teens this is a can’t miss gift that you may want to consider for any 20-something nephews as well.
Depending on how remarkable you normally spend on your nephew, this may be the perfect gift for him this holiday season. A little pricey at $219 if you’re on a budget, but as the IPod has evolved over the last few years, this is an amazing device for any teen. Not only is it an IPod, but they can play games, watch movies, and surf from any Wi-Fi hotspot! If you have an IPhone, the Touch takes all of the desired features of the IPhone minus the talking features and monthly phone bill. By searching the web, you can generally find a little better deal on these than just walking into your local Apple Store or other IPod retailer. Gifts.com offers the touch for just over $200. It comes in an 8GB model that holds over 1700 songs, 10,000 photos, and up to 10 hours of video. It is recommended to check with the teens parents before buying the IPod Touch in case Santa has already decided to leave it under the Christmas tree for your nephew.
Relaxed Hooded Sweatshirt (Hoodie)
Now normally it is best to conclude away from clothing items for teen nephews, but there is a relaxed, hooded, rugby bull dog fleece by Ralph Lauren that you may want to consider for him this holiday season. Priced very reasonably at $98, it comes in at a mid-price range and is fairly popular with the teen crowd. Gifts.com also offers this fleece through their website
Gift Certificate to the Local Cinema
A well-liked event for all teens is going to the Mall and the movies. A gift idea that can’t go wrong is buying a $20 to $50 gift certificate to the local movie theater for your teen nephew. Since it seems like the movie industry is saving what they expect to be the best movies of each year for peak times like the Holiday’s, your gift is likely to come in very useful for nephew prior the New Year’s Eve!
Movies on DVD
When teens aren’t playing video games or talking on the cell phone, one of the next most likely activities they will be doing is watching movies. A very easy gift to give them is several movies they either haven’t seen or have but would like to gape again. WalMart, Kmart, and Target seem to have the best local deals on DVD’s, where Amazon and other online retailers many times have a little better price and larger selection. DVDs are also perfect to bundle as a gift with a small gift card or other holiday item for your teen nephew.
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