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Permalink Reply by Abigail Walto on May 9, 2012 at 2:13pm

The first deployment i sent little games, like bop it etc, you can always send playing cards too. I also ended up sending my perfume over, the one he liked the most, and he told me after when he got home that he loved it because he sprayed it on his pillows and sheets :) Any kind of cookies that he likes, the little bags of chips, his favorite kind of candy. Esp because they miss that stuff when they're over there! Pictures of you guys :) and i always put a letter in the box too. Not sure if it will be the same but his packages would always get there quicker than the letters. If i think of anything else ill let you know! 

Permalink Reply by Maggie Whaley on May 9, 2012 at 4:08pm

Lol, Abigail you give the best advice on everything :) thanks for all your help in this and the messages!

Permalink Reply by Abigail Walto on May 9, 2012 at 5:27pm

Well, thank you!! You're welcome , glad I can help :)

Permalink Reply by Sherry Inman on May 10, 2012 at 6:32am

I couldnt thing of anything either, so I overheard him talking to a friend once about a portable game that was coming out that he wanted while he was deployed, in a few weeks it will be out. So I wanted to get him that and send it over to him. But then I also thought on the way to the store to reserve it... I was listening to the music that has recently come out and started to think... Maybe he would like to hear some of the new music he's missing....

Send him a mix of new music/songs that have come out recently onto a burnable CD Even if you have different tastes in music letting him get oto know the things your into at this point in time is useful too so it doesn't feel like he's coming home to a stranger... Stick a few mix and match songs from both of your musical tastes

Hope this helps!!

Permalink Reply by Sherry Inman on May 10, 2012 at 6:34am

Oh, and remember if you send something he cant use everything is a bargaining tool, trade one thing for another from someone ... if not for another item just for money. Ive seen people come home with a profit mainly from care packages from back home. =)

Permalink Reply by Maggie Whaley on May 10, 2012 at 4:54pm

I love the idea of the music! Thanks!! :)

Permalink Reply by Amanda Crockett on May 24, 2012 at 3:52pm

Pictures, pictures, pictures! I sent one of me and our 2 dogs to him which he kept next to his bed. Drink mix stuff (you know the single packet things).... i made a set of dog tags online (really cheap) that just said 'no matter where you are im always with you' .... hmmm what else? Someone mentioned music that he's missing which is cute- but maybe also a CD of songs that makes you think of him or that you too both enjoy... i know people like to send things that make them feel like kids again- silly string, play dough, stuff like that... we're coming up on another deployment so i'm starting to think ahead...

Permalink Reply by Antionette Botes on May 24, 2012 at 5:40pm

Email me at samarinewife@yahoo.com and I'll send you an email with care package ideas.  I'd be more than happy to share it with you!!!

Permalink Reply by Megan Pennington on July 25, 2012 at 12:26am

Well first..they NEVER give them enough toilet paper, toothpaster, deodorant, beef jerkey is MUST, they love getting cookies. Also, what I have sent my soldier was cards, a nurf football and a frisby to play with his buddies on his down time. :) Chapstick, aleve...anything. And Tang so they can put it in there water. They get sick of just drinking water.

Permalink Reply by Micah Dielle on July 30, 2012 at 5:33pm

I've been sending themed packages every month. For example, his September box (which gets mailed in about a week) includes a Nerf football, some cheese dip and chips, buffalo chicken jerky bites, pizza Pringles, twizzlers, rice krispy treats... basically all the junk food (or mail-able versions of them) that I'd serve at my weekly football parties! And I got him a new Broncos t-shirt (our home team) and a CU Buffs t-shirt (my university). October will be a box just chock full of candy and crap for Halloween haha!

Permalink Reply by RedWhiteBlueBlood on August 5, 2012 at 4:23pm

When LB went on his deployment, we knew it would be about a year so I sent him a mason jar with 365 reasons I loved him...one on each paper.  He was able to read one a day and would put it in his journal and write something he loved about me. 

I also sent him sexy patriotic photos of me. I trusted that he wouldn't show them to anyone else and he didn't.  It really helped him because it reminded him what he was fighting for!

Permalink Reply by Chelsey Bertram on August 26, 2012 at 12:00pm

If you have a Michaels or other craft store near you, they have great fun little activity books, figurines and other random little things that can cost less than a dollar for fun little items to pack in the box. Dollar Stores also have fun random items that he can share with buddies for a good laugh. I found my friend a bunch of Disney Pricesess items (inside joke) that will get added periodicly to her boxes.