Military Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Sending Care Packages
HI Ladies,
I'm not a normal lurker or poster on this board but I figured that you would be the ones with the best advice.
I have a few friends that have just deployed (most on their second or third tour) and I would love to send them a care package. One of them mentioned that they would love some cookies or homemade goods, but my concern is how to send them so they don't get destroyed. I thought I could put the cookies in mason jars or maybe even empty pringles cans, wrapped in paper, to keep them safe? Any other suggestions?
Also, are there any items that your SO really wanted/would have liked/ appreciated ?
Thank you so much
Re: Sending Care Packages
Pringles cans work well, and so does Gladware. Ziplocks usually work just fine, and food-savers are wonderful:-) The biggest concern isn't so much things getting crushed as much as food going stale.
When I was deployed, I always liked home-made goodies (perfect for sharing, especially if you can individually wrap things). I also recommend:
- Healthy snacks like granola bars, dried fruit, nuts, trail mix etc (again, individually packaged or in baggies -- large bags of open food can attract pests and usually get thrown away before everything has been eaten).
- Water mix-ins -- you have to drink bottled water there, and it's nice to be able to mix in flavors, and there are a TON on the market now.
- Coffee/tea/hot chocoloate.
- Magazines, books, etc.
- Travel/trial sized bath and body items for women. It's nice to smell like a girl:-)
- No electrical toys, games, etc......they can't be thrown away because of the risk that someone will pull them out of the trash and make an IED out of the parts, so these things end up just piling up everywhere....
Oh yeah, if you don't know this trick already, use flat-rate postal boxes. The large ones (about the size of two shoe boxes) cost about $12 to send to an overseas APO/FPO address (military post office) no matter how much they weigh, so they're perfect for care packages!
Hope this helps!
Thank you so much for the response.
I never thought about the water mix ins or individually wrapped things.