20 Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Far Away

Perhaps more than ever, we’re missing our distant family members and friends. We want to celebrate Christmas together and exchange gifts in person, but sometimes that’s not possible. Cheer up, though.

20 Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Far Away

Through the power of technology and the ability to send gifts anywhere in the world (sometimes overnight), we can still communicate and connect this holiday season.

Tips for Gifting to Loved Ones Living Far Away

To ease that burden a bit for you, we offer some tips: – Don’t delay. If you leave gifts to the last minute, your loved one might not receive it for Christmas, especially this year, as shipping delays are predicted to be high. It also means you’ll be paying a lot more in shipping fees to get it to arrive on time.

Tips for Gifting to Loved Ones Living Far Away

– Choose a gift that is prepackaged with care and style. After all, the first impression is an important one. – It’s smart to purchase shipping insurance (USPS, UPS, FedEx) or make certain the company you’re buying from includes insurance in their shipping rates if you’re sending any of the following types of gifts:

Tips for Gifting to Loved Ones Living Far Away

– High-value – Fragile – Time-sensitive – Perishable Check the International Shipping Prohibitions & Restrictions list before mailing a gift from the U.S. to another country.

Tips for Gifting to Loved Ones Living Far Away

The easiest way to send your long-distance Christmas gift idea is to shop through a well-respected vendor who you can trust to see that your package arrives at your loved one’s door intact and on time.

Long Distance Christmas Gift Ideas

We have some great Christmas gift ideas for family who is far away. Here are our top picks:

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Members

1. Classic Puzzle Night Package: This puts dinner on the table along with a 500-piece puzzle your family members can put together...together! 2. Two-Time-Zone Clock: Let them know what time it is where you’re located to help sync convenient communication times.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Members

3. Blank Cards, a Fancy Pen, and a Stack of Stamps: Everyone loves receiving real mail. Become true pen pals and divulge your deepest feelings or simply exchange jokes via notes. Either way, everyone will smile ear to ear when a letter arrives in the mailbox.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Members

4. Personalized Calendar: Before sending, circle the date you get to see your family member again and give them the satisfaction of crossing off the days in between. It may just make the time go by a little quicker.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Members

5. Customized Hardcover Story Book: Two good options are 1) personalize the characters’ names and facial features in a book to match yourself and your young family member, or 2) send a book in which you record your voice reading the story to your little loved one.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Members

6. Family Member Distance Sign Post: You know those signs that mark the distance and direction from a current location to another one far away? You can get the same thing but customized with the names and distances of family members. It’s perfect as a grandparent’s backyard decoration.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

1. Holiday Home Spa Package: Spoil your spouse or partner with a luxe package full of everything they need for a relaxing night in. It includes a super-soft blanket, cozy comfort socks, lavender eye pillow, warmable plush pack, and a holiday-scented candle.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

2. Illuminating Love Lamps: Give one lamp to your significant other and keep one for yourself. With just a touch, you can communicate your love for each other through illumination.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

3. Soft Sweatshirt: Winter weather calls for bundling up in a new pullover or hoodie, but you get bonus points for sleeping in it first before sending it off to your other half.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

4. Daily Conversation Diary: With a new writing prompt for each day of the year, this little journal encourages you both to connect by finishing sentences like, “When I first heard your name, I thought you would be...” and, “I felt your love today when…”

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

5. Secret Message Locket or Keychain: Write your own personal message and fold it up inside a hidden compartment so your partner or significant other will always have it with them when they need a little pick-me-up.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

6. Airline Gift Card: This one could be a bit expensive depending on where your loved one is located, but what could be better than getting a free ticket for a special visit?

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

1. Cookies & Cocoa Package: The perfect gift that anyone will enjoy combines six cookies (you pick the flavor!), gourmet cocoa mix, and a buffalo plaid mug. The sweets and sips spell sweet holidays for even the pickiest recipient.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

2. Phone Mini Photo Printer: Purchase one for the friend who inevitably has hundreds of phone pictures of the two of you having incredible adventures together.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

3.. Book Club Box: Each month, a subscription service sends you and your friends the same book, themed goodies, and discussion cards so you can continue having your own club even though you’re far apart.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

4. Advent Calendar: Send a prefilled one or make one of your own using little trinkets that remind you of your special friend. Either way, they’ll get a gift that gives every morning for a month.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

5. Friendship Necklace or Bracelet: You had them as kids, and there’s no reason you shouldn’t have them now! Customize the jewelry with meaningful engraving to add even more sentimental value.

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

6. Favorite Food Recipes and Ingredients: You know that one dessert you make that your friend loves? Remember that incredible meal you made together that one time?

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

Create your own care package full of your friend’s favorite recipes and the ingredients to make them on their own. Giving the gift of “food memories” will certainly touch their stomach and heart.

Personalized Family Mugs

To each his or her own mug. These personalized mugs let you create a mug for each family member. Choose from an array of body types, hair color, skin tones, clothing type, and colors.

Matching Family Pajamas

Matching family pajamas can be fun and make for great Holiday family portraits. They don’t just have to be for the humans in the family however, pets can get in on the action too!

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20 Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Far Away

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20 Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Far Away

Perhaps more than ever, we’re missing our distant family members and friends. We want to celebrate Christmas together and exchange gifts in person, but sometimes that’s not possible. Cheer up, though.

Read more

20 Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Far Away

Through the power of technology and the ability to send gifts anywhere in the world (sometimes overnight), we can still communicate and connect this holiday season.

Read more

Tips for Gifting to Loved Ones Living Far Away

Read more

Tips for Gifting to Loved Ones Living Far Away

Read more

Tips for Gifting to Loved Ones Living Far Away

– High-value – Fragile – Time-sensitive – Perishable Check the International Shipping Prohibitions & Restrictions list before mailing a gift from the U.S. to another country.

Read more

Tips for Gifting to Loved Ones Living Far Away

The easiest way to send your long-distance Christmas gift idea is to shop through a well-respected vendor who you can trust to see that your package arrives at your loved one’s door intact and on time.

Read more

Long Distance Christmas Gift Ideas

We have some great Christmas gift ideas for family who is far away. Here are our top picks:

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Members

1. Classic Puzzle Night Package: This puts dinner on the table along with a 500-piece puzzle your family members can put together...together! 2. Two-Time-Zone Clock: Let them know what time it is where you’re located to help sync convenient communication times.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Members

3. Blank Cards, a Fancy Pen, and a Stack of Stamps: Everyone loves receiving real mail. Become true pen pals and divulge your deepest feelings or simply exchange jokes via notes. Either way, everyone will smile ear to ear when a letter arrives in the mailbox.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Members

4. Personalized Calendar: Before sending, circle the date you get to see your family member again and give them the satisfaction of crossing off the days in between. It may just make the time go by a little quicker.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Members

5. Customized Hardcover Story Book: Two good options are 1) personalize the characters’ names and facial features in a book to match yourself and your young family member, or 2) send a book in which you record your voice reading the story to your little loved one.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Family Members

6. Family Member Distance Sign Post: You know those signs that mark the distance and direction from a current location to another one far away? You can get the same thing but customized with the names and distances of family members. It’s perfect as a grandparent’s backyard decoration.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

1. Holiday Home Spa Package: Spoil your spouse or partner with a luxe package full of everything they need for a relaxing night in. It includes a super-soft blanket, cozy comfort socks, lavender eye pillow, warmable plush pack, and a holiday-scented candle.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

2. Illuminating Love Lamps: Give one lamp to your significant other and keep one for yourself. With just a touch, you can communicate your love for each other through illumination.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

3. Soft Sweatshirt: Winter weather calls for bundling up in a new pullover or hoodie, but you get bonus points for sleeping in it first before sending it off to your other half.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

4. Daily Conversation Diary: With a new writing prompt for each day of the year, this little journal encourages you both to connect by finishing sentences like, “When I first heard your name, I thought you would be...” and, “I felt your love today when…”

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

5. Secret Message Locket or Keychain: Write your own personal message and fold it up inside a hidden compartment so your partner or significant other will always have it with them when they need a little pick-me-up.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for a Partner or Spouse

6. Airline Gift Card: This one could be a bit expensive depending on where your loved one is located, but what could be better than getting a free ticket for a special visit?

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

1. Cookies & Cocoa Package: The perfect gift that anyone will enjoy combines six cookies (you pick the flavor!), gourmet cocoa mix, and a buffalo plaid mug. The sweets and sips spell sweet holidays for even the pickiest recipient.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

2. Phone Mini Photo Printer: Purchase one for the friend who inevitably has hundreds of phone pictures of the two of you having incredible adventures together.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

3.. Book Club Box: Each month, a subscription service sends you and your friends the same book, themed goodies, and discussion cards so you can continue having your own club even though you’re far apart.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

4. Advent Calendar: Send a prefilled one or make one of your own using little trinkets that remind you of your special friend. Either way, they’ll get a gift that gives every morning for a month.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

5. Friendship Necklace or Bracelet: You had them as kids, and there’s no reason you shouldn’t have them now! Customize the jewelry with meaningful engraving to add even more sentimental value.

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

6. Favorite Food Recipes and Ingredients: You know that one dessert you make that your friend loves? Remember that incredible meal you made together that one time?

Read more

6 Long-Distance Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends

Create your own care package full of your friend’s favorite recipes and the ingredients to make them on their own. Giving the gift of “food memories” will certainly touch their stomach and heart.

Read more

Personalized Family Mugs

To each his or her own mug. These personalized mugs let you create a mug for each family member. Choose from an array of body types, hair color, skin tones, clothing type, and colors.

Read more

Matching Family Pajamas

Matching family pajamas can be fun and make for great Holiday family portraits. They don’t just have to be for the humans in the family however, pets can get in on the action too!