By: Noelle (Residence Advisor — Tweedsmuir)
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 Day.
Step 2: Get a box. You can buy one from the Post Office in the SUB or you can see if anyone in your community has a spare shoe box.
Step 3: Go to Shoppers, the bookstore, or even Save-on-Foods and buy small gifts to fill the care package. Consider inexpensive but thoughtful items that fall under the following categories:
a) Needed items. Ex) Warm socks if it’s cold where they are, or tissues if they keep telling you about their runny nose.
b) Souvenirs. Ex) Pictures of where you are or a UBC keychain.
c) Food. 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).
d) 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.
e) Pictures. Attach a collage of pictures of you two together to bring back memories. Find these pictures on social media, on your computer, or on your phone.
f) Seasonal decorations. Ex) Stickers or items that they can use to jazz up their room, if they also live in residence.
g) Cute jokes, pick-up lines or paper captions that explain why you packed an item. The cornier, the better! Ex) Item: Arctic Rush Tictacs. Message: I’ve got an Arctic Rush Crush on you.
Step 4: Decorate the box. Inside, outside or both! Attach pictures, hearts, messages, pet names, inside jokes or whatever else makes you happy!
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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