Written by: Noelle Dalin
Edited by: Peter Milobar
It is October and it may have already be over a month since you have seen your partner. One or both of you have moved away for university and the distance might be starting to get to you. In addition, school stress has been ramping up with midterms and there are no cuddles within sight. Send your partner some love and care with a fabulous care package to make them feel like you are not so far away.
Step 1: Find out your partner’s address and your own address. Your mailbox number/address is on your Welcome Package that you got on Move-In.
Step 2: Get a cardboard box. You can buy one from Staples in the University Village or see if anyone in your community has a spare shoe box.
Step 3: Go to Shoppers, the bookstore or even Save-on-Foods and get small gifts to fill the care package. Consider inexpensive but thoughtful items that fall under the following categories:
- Needed items. Ex) Warm socks, if it’s cold where they are, or tissues if they keep telling you about their running nose.
- Ex) Pictures of where you are or a UBC keychain.
- Seriously food. Who doesn’t love free food? Ex) Snacks for studying, goodies that they like or something that you have baked especially for them (as long as shipping time is no longer than a couple days and the item isn’t extremely perishable/squishable).
- A letter or hand-written note. It is just nice to tell them how much that they are missed or how excited you are to see them next.
- Attach a collage of pictures of you two together to bring back memories. Find these pictures on social media, on your computer or even just old pictures on your phone.
- Seasonal Decorations. Ex) Stickers or items that they can use to jazz up their room, if they also live in residence.
- Cute jokes, pick-up lines or paper captions that explain why you packed an item. The cornier, the better! Ex) Item: Artic Rush Tictacs. Message: I’ve got an Artic Rush Crush on you.
- Anything hand crafted. It might serve to be a good de-stressor to knit, carve or draw something for them.
Step 4: Decorate the box. Inside, outside or both! Attach pictures, hearts, messages, pet names, inside jokes or whatever else makes you happy!
My sample care package
Step 5: Write both of your addresses on the box and use packing tape to seal all edges.
Step 6: Send at the Post Office and notify the recipient that a package should be arriving at an approximate date, so that they may wait in anticipation. What a great thing to look forward to after a stressful week!
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