Ten Gifts for High School Grads

With this being graduation season, you might be looking for a few creative gift ideas to give that recent high school grad. And though, in such cases, I would normally advise giving money to that highly educated, yet poorly paid teen, I am sure that some of you are looking for a more thoughtful (or at the very least – humorous) gift idea. So today, I'll offer you my top gift ideas for that high school grad.

Ten Gifts for High School Grads:

• A digital camera – for use in photographing all of his/her high school friends (so he/she may hopefully remember some of their names when the 10-year reunion comes around...)
• An acoustic guitar - so the grad can play the role of the “quiet and sensitive, yet oddly sexy musician” at his/her college campus
• A Crock-Pot (preferably filled with cocktail sausages, meatballs, or some other form of thoroughly unhealthy finger food)
• A potted plant (not to be confused with a pot plant...)
• Several pairs of flip-flops with the note “For the Dormitory Showers” and a photo of a fungus-ridden foot attached to the label
• A corkscrew – for the grad that spent 7 years in high school and is now legally old enough to drink
• A year-long supply of toilet paper - the gift that keeps on giving
• Some clothes hangers – that way the kid doesn't have to steal all of his/her parent's hangers when he/she moves out
• A pet snail (most college dormitories don't allow pet dogs, cats, or rodents...)
• A summer job – let's be honest here, the grad is really just looking for money, so why not use that grad as cheap labor to mow your lawn, paint your fence, and reshingle your roof?