Care Packages Any ideas on things to send to your Marine while he is far away? Send them to me!! If you need ideas, check it out! There are lots of ideas here!!! My best friend, Michael, just returned from his six month WEST PAC and while he was away I wrote him often and tried to send him things from home. In one care package to him and his roommate, I sent a five pound bag of M&M's, a box of gum, then assorted little things like tic-tac-toe and connect the dots books. I also included some coloring books and crayons - more as a joke than anything else. Come to find out, when he was in the desert of Kuwait an was stuck in his tent with nothing to do, he colored them!! The people around him (including his Sergeant Major) thought he was crazy, but he had fun!! Anne It looks to me like a great deal of the things you can do for care packages has been covered. I guess my main take is to send him as much of home as I possibley can. Jermey is at Sasebo in Japan, he has been gone almost a year and still has til November/December... I try to send a box twice a month... his favorite cereal (he can't get there), pictures the kids draw, videos, music, pictures... basically anything he needs or anything I think will make him smile. Just so he knows I am thinking about him and things that say home. I find too, it's the practical things he appreciates the most. If your hubby has access to a computer (we got Jermey a laptop before he left... still paying it off but it was a great investment) there are relatively inexpensive quick cams and a program called Netmeeting where you can see, and talk to each other for free. It has been such a great way for us to communicate and for all of us to see each other. catherine ~ a lock of my hair (that was an idea that i got from a Marine online when asking him what his favorite thing was that his girlfriend had sent him) ~i went out and bought a little jar and on the outside, attached a note that said "anytime you need to feel FAITH, HOPE, or LOVE just open this jar and and you'll feel these things from me" and then left the jar empty.<