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Can you do cash in one of those creative Pinterest ways? Folded up into a graduation lei, chocolate box, pizza box, mason jar, etc? I feel like cash really is needed since she'll need stuff for her dorm, supplies, and whatnot.

Or how about a sweater/gear from the college she'll be going to?

Freshman survival kit? New makeup/nail stuff?

If she's in a dorm an extra long sheet set. A gift card to the school bookstore.

I gave my cousin a laundry themed basket when she graduated a few years ago. I took a mason jar and cut a slit in the top to drop coins in and used vinyl letters to label it "laundry money." Then I filled it with quarters and added a bag of laundry pods, a collapsible laundry basket, a delicates bag and some hedgehog dryer balls.

One of my favorite high school graduation gifts was a picture frame, oddly. I only received one and I put a picture of my parents in it and had it on my desk in my room.

We did cash for my younger brother and our nephew who just graduated. But I think girls can often be more sentimental.

Towels! If you have a stockpile of Bed, Bath & Beyond coupons that will help her get all of her dorm room stuff.

I had an aunt give me a tool kit and it turned out to be crazy useful. I still have most of it like 15 years later too.

I think it depends if she's driving or flying to school. If flying, cash or something small would really be the most convenient.

I like the idea of a bathrobe/towel or maybe some sort of organizer that makes it easier to organize your stuff in a small space - like a hanging jewelry or shoe organizer, or a basket for organizing toiletries. If she'll be living somewhere with a kitchen where she'll be cooking meals, a cookbook with your favorite recipes in it would be cool and super-personalized.

Pretty sure this is only a Texas thing, but everyone I know who went to school out of state brought a Texas flag to hang in their dorm room. You can request that the flag be flown over the state capitol on a special day (ie: graduation day) -- so that is a popular gift here.

ETA: My uncle gave me "everything I needed to get to class on time" - an alarm clock, an umbrella, flip flops...I can't remember what else. It was an odd assortment of things, but a cute theme. I went to school out of state, but just shipped a big box of stuff up a few weeks early.