Graduate Gift Ideas (List of) and Graduation Sayings

Graduate Gift Ideas and Graduation Sayings or skip the presents and go directly to the limerick poems?

Parents

a trip to Europe (she needs a break!)
new laptop (the one from college is half dead)
luggage
a top-of-the-line new phone for taking potential employer's calls
brief case
watch (tradition)
non-particle board furniture for her new apartment
services (these should be given well before graduation day)
- pay for preparation courses for graduate school (GMAT, GRE)
- pay for a top notch resume writing service

Graduation scrapbook or a CD you have carefully constructed of graduation images with his favorite music
a certificate for a massage
books relating to the grad's career hopes or resume writing
comfort items such as new pjs for the next school
business shirts - whites and blues - (ask Mom the size)
running shoes (the ones from college are kaput)
pen set (tradition)

plane tickets to and use of your vacation condo for a post graduation vacation
a Eurail (or Eurorail) pass for the graduate's upcoming European tour
a gift certificate for clothing at a good, local department store (grad needs a business wardrobe)
a certificate at a beauty salon (you'll have to ask Mom which one she prefers)
laptop case
a decent camera with lots of mega pixels

A willingness to share your "six degrees" of connection for networking and your quality resources.
If you have business or professional clout, a willingness to write a strong and positive letter of recommendation.
Take the young grad to your Chamber of Commerce meetings and other business associations and introduce her (order a generic box of business cards for the grad to pass around - linen texture, white color and matte finish - with accurate contact information, simple and elegant with no pictures).