Four teenage girls that I don't even know!

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Please help!

Two god-daughters and then their sisters. All have moved away and so I haven't seen them for 5+ years so no real ideas.
Budget ideally <£20 each and all will need posting so lighter/smaller preferred.

1. 19. Previously gender non-conforming; now in a straight relationship. Quite goth/alternative.

1. 13. Sister of above. Quieter. Bookish but politically active (Extinction rebellion etc).

1. 13. Lives in Paris. Goes to international school. Tall (Adult size small). Likes drawing.

1. 10. Sister of above. Loves cartwheels and sleeping!

Please help! I have no contact with girls of this age in general, let alone these four, so totally lost!

Amazon vouchers 😁

Lush gift set for the two younger ones. Can possibly be ordered online to be delivered direct.

Cartwheels and sleeping?
Love it

Book shop vouchers? I'd do Waterstones for the girls who live here, and then for the one living in france I'd go for a FNAC one (they sell sketchbooks too since she likes drawing!) Maybe £10/15 each?
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go rogue -

Engraved chopsticks

I'm another who likes a safe giftcard.

I'd maybe go with a nice letterbox type sweetie / hot choc 'hamper' from Etsy / Not on the High Street plus £10 H&M giftcard × 4.

H&M fairly safe bet I think.

Or put entire budget into £20 giftcard.

Quite honestly, I wouldn't be buying for anyone who I hadn't seen for 5 years. Regardless of god-child status, they obviously aren't important enough to see so why stress over presents?

Loads of great ideas and links. Thanks.

I would also go for vouchers of some kind. Boots vouchers are good, lots of things they can buy there. Not for the one in France obviously. I'd probably get them an amazon.fr voucher.

For the 13 year old that lives in Paris how about a good (small) set of colouring pencils (or just graphite ones if she prefers). My teen daughter draws in a serious way and likes the Faber-Castell polychromos pencils and you could get a small tin for your budget with maybe around 10 pencils.
For the extinction rebellion 13 year old- that's tricky as surely she would ne against gifts and postage etc as it is unnecessary and uses fossil fuels to produce and reach her?
Soya wax candle for the oldest one
Youngest - skipping rope, yoyo, some nice hair accessories

Donate £20 each to charity their name? Although tbh I wouldn’t be buying people I never see gifts at all so donating to charity meets halfway for me.

This!

Why are you buying for them OP?

I used to feel this kind of pressure from family and sometimes friend's DC, but life became so much simpler and less stressful since I decided that if I don't know you well enough to know what you'd like, that'll be because you're not actually a part of my life, so no need for presents. IME it doesn't make people like you better, it just makes people take you for granted and be grabby. I really detest the notion that just because someone's under 18 and you know them or they're related to you, that they'll be getting a present.

I can see why you post gifts to god daughters but why do you post to their siblings? It’s a genuine question. I can understand bringing a token gift if you go to their house but posting..,
Also what you’ve done before this year re gifts to siblings?

Bit Lazy but Cash and a nice note encouraging them to spend it on a special treat.

I have always done both girls, so my goddaughters and their sisters, just because it seemed fairer. I moved away (6 hours away) from the eldest (my first godchild) when she was just 3 and have only seen her and her sisters perhaps 4/5 times since? I just feel that that commitment meant something, albeit not religious.

The Parisian pair are daughters of a great friend of mine from uni. We've never lived near each other since so, to be honest, it's probably been 4/5 times in their lives. But again, I made these sort of secular promise to the elder and feel I ought to honour it in some sense. I guess I feel bad for not being around in their lives in the sense I thought I would be?

Starbucks gift cards

Boots vouchers for make up/ skincare. Goths need loads of eyeliner and every body needs soap /body spray etc

For the goth 🖤

https://www.killstar.com/products/vampir-slippers?currency=GBP&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&stkn=750001a69936&utm_source=google&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAmfq6BhAsEiwAX1jsZ5Rm-3ZbHXUNk5C14A_0b2VZPHcPqaQAHbNbA-KvNz2yjojeyeJn1hoCCE0QAvD_BwE

Just send vouchers or cash and be done with it!

Oh I see so it’s a bit a tradition then. I asked because my sister’s godson never liked her bringing something to his younger brother. He wanted all attention to be just for him,

I wouldn’t bother in all honesty 🙈