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10 digital Mother’s Day gift ideas so your 2024 gift can reach her in time
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Final warning: Mother’s Day is tomorrow. Have you already chosen the perfect gift for your mom? If not, we’ve come to the rescue with some of the only last-minute options that’ll still get to her with not a moment to spare: virtual gifts. A digital delight for Mom can be emailed, linked, texted and shared to social media to make things fast, easy, and fun. After all, Mom is one of the most important women in your life, so make sure she’s well taken care of this year with a thoughtful gift she won’t be able to stop smiling about.
From the gift of gourmet food to classes she’ll love taking, there are tons of different ways to show Mom you care beyond traditional flower deliveries or gift baskets that may not arrive in time. If you’re having trouble figuring out which digital and virtual gift to send Mom for Mother’s Day 2024, read on for some of our favorite picks. All you have to do is shop, check out and send to Mom. The internet can do the rest.
Best last-minute virtual Mother’s Day gifts
Best virtual Mother’s day gift: Amazon gift card
Amazon
Amazon has just about anything Mom could ever want to purchase. The massive retailer sells all types of items, from clothing to food and everything in between.
An Amazon gift card is sent instantly via email, and all Mom has to do is redeem it on her account. She can start shopping for something she wants within minutes of your presenting her with the gift. That way, if you’re really drawing a blank this year, she can get whatever is on her mind without any muss or fuss.
You can buy digital Amazon gift cards online starting at $25.
Best virtual Mother’s Day gift for moms who love trying new food: Goldbelly gift card
Goldbelly
Give Mom the chance to try some delicious gourmet food with a Goldbelly gift card via email. Mom can shop meals and delicacies from restaurants all over the world, from bakeries to sushi joints and more.
With a gift card, she can choose which foods she wants to try from world-famous institutions and set up a delivery for when it’s convenient for her. If she loves trying new restaurants but can’t travel to each and every one, this is the perfect compromise.
Best virtual Mother’s Day gift for moms who love wine: Firstleaf subscription
Firstleaf
If Mom loves kicking back and relaxing with a glass of wine, sign her up for a Firstleaf subscription. With an introductory offer of $45 for the first month, you can pay for a six-bottle selection of wine sent directly to her door.
Choose from a variety of brands and types, and increase the number of bottles for Mom to try to 12 if she ends up enjoying the subscription. She’ll discover flavors and brands she’s never heard of, and she doesn’t even have to leave the house to sip on some delicious new rosé.
That’s a gift any mom could appreciate.
Best virtual Mother’s Day gift for moms who love flowers all year long: BloomsyBox subscription
BloomsyBox
You could give Mom a bouquet for Mother’s Day. Or you could give her a BloomsyBox subscription for flowers all year long.
This service brings a variety of different blooms to your mom’s door every month, with at least 20 stems packed into each delivery with the Bloomsy Original Subscription, starting at just $60.
You can opt for larger and more varied bouquets as well, meaning Mom will always have fresh flowers in her home thanks to you.
Best virtual Mother’s Day gift for moms who love to learn: MasterClass subscription
MasterClass
If your mom loves to watch YouTube tutorials, participate in group classes, or is naturally curious, a MasterClass subscription will be a delight for her. This subscription service offers hundreds of classes from some of the brightest minds in writing, cooking, songwriting, comedy and much more.
Mom can learn how to cook with Gordon Ramsay, learn about writing comedy with Steve Martin, and even brush up on her singing with Christina Aguilera. She can learn through videos and chats with other learners, and there are even added Q&A sessions with each subject master.
Mom will love adding to her repertoire of knowledge.
Best virtual Mother’s Day gift for moms who love makeup: Ipsy subscription
Ipsy
Does your mom love trying new makeup and skincare products? Give her an Ipsy subscription, which comes to her door each month with a special bag full of sample and full-sized products.
Starting at just $14, this service delivers a new reusable bag monthly, filled with makeup, skincare, hair and other beauty products tailored to her unique needs. Whether she loves nail polish, eye shadow or even palettes, there’s a wide variety of goodies packed into every Ipsy bag.
Each month will be a new surprise that she can tailor to her liking.
Best virtual Mother’s Day gift for moms who collect fragrances: Scentbird subscription
Scentbird
Perfume can be expensive. If Mom loves to collect and try new scents often, help save her some money with a Scentbird subscription. Each month, she can choose a different scent from a catalogue, then she’ll receive it in a free refillable atomizer case.
She’ll get about 120 sprays per month of her chosen perfume, and then she can choose a new one or continue with the same one every month. That way she can rotate through fragrances without spending hundreds to see what they all smell like.
Best virtual Mother’s Day gift for moms who love to read: Book of the Month Club subscription
Book of the Month Club
So many moms wish they had more time to read. Give Mom an incentive to make time with a subscription to the Book of the Month Club.
Each month, a selection of new books are available for Mom to choose from. First as little as $60 out of your pocket, she can chose three books she’s interested in each month and read them — then she can do it all again the next month.
With how expensive books can be, it’s a great price, and plus she gets to broaden her horizons as a reader by trying new genres and authors curated by the club.
Best virtual Mother’s Day gift for crafty moms: Craftsy subscription
Craftsy
Does Mom love to make things? If she’s an artsy type who can draw with the best of them, crochet, decorate cakes, paint or even make paper crafts, she can use a Craftsy subscription.
This learning service offers a wide variety of classes that offer step-by-step instructions across all devices for Mom to learn how to do what she does best: create.
New classes are added monthly with a variety of additional skills Mom can try out. She can try her hand at different types of creative trades, and if you’d like, you can share a membership with Craftsy’s different plans to learn together.
Best virtual Mother’s Day gift for moms who need to chill: Headspace subscription
Headspace
Moms are under a lot of stress. They’ve got to worry about you, the family, work, and so much else. Give yours the gift of peace of mind with a Headspace subscription.
This meditation app can help Mom calm down and chill out with guided meditations, music for focusing, sleeping or just de-stressing, and workouts to help her center herself.
It’s a great way for Mom to unwind and get back to feeling well-rested, healthy, and happy. And it’s all in a simple app that Mom can use while on the go or at home.
Frito-Lay is recalling a limited number of 13 oz. bags of Lay’s Classic Potato Chips after being alerted by a consumer contact that the product may contain undeclared milk.
The bags of chips affected by recall were distributed to certain retail stores and e-commerce distributors in Oregon and Washington and were available for sale beginning Nov. 3, 2024.
“Those with an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume the recalled product,” the Food and Drug Administration said in the recall notice posted Thursday.
No allergic reactions related to the recall have been reported, according to the recall. Additionally, no other Lay’s products, flavors, sizes or variety packs are affected.
FDA
The recalled chips include Lay’s Classic Potato Chips, in flexible 13 oz. (368.5 grams) bags with UPC code 28400 31041, a “Guaranteed Fresh” date of 11 Feb 2025, and one of either two manufacturing codes: 6462307xx or 6463307xx.
General guidelines from the FDA advise consumers who have purchased any recalled food to dispose of the product or return it to the retailer for a full refund.
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What is the debt ceiling? Here’s why Trump wants Congress to abolish it before he takes office
Washington — President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and billionaire Elon Musk blew up a GOP-backed deal to fund federal agencies into March, raising the pressure on Republican congressional leaders to craft a plan to avert a government shutdown just before the holidays.
In a statement Wednesday, Trump and Vance lambasted the agreement for including provisions favored by Democrats. But the incoming president and vice president also added a new, significant wrinkle to negotiations when they urged Congress to raise or abolish the debt ceiling now, instead of next year.
“Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch,” Trump and Vance said in their statement. “If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate now.”
What is the debt ceiling?
Set by Congress, the debt ceiling, or limit, is the maximum amount of money the U.S. Treasury is authorized to borrow to pay debts incurred by the federal government. Lifting the debt ceiling does not authorize new spending, but instead lets the government spend money on obligations that Congress has already been approved.
Failing to address the debt ceiling could lead the U.S. to default on its debt, which would have devastating effects on the economy. The government has never defaulted, and the Treasury typically uses accounting moves, known as “extraordinary measures,” to delay breaching the debt ceiling.
While raising the debt ceiling used to be routine, legislation addressing it has in recent years been used as leverage to force policy concessions and fuel debates over government spending.
Congress last addressed the debt ceiling in June 2023 as part of a legislative package negotiated by President Biden and then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. That deal suspended the debt ceiling through Jan., 1, 2025, ensuring any fight over it would take place after the 2024 elections.
The Treasury Department will likely implement extraordinary measures to stave off a default in the new year. It will also announce an “X date,” the estimated point at which the government will no longer be able to pay its obligations. The Economic Policy Innovation Center, a conservative think tank, projected in an analysis released Monday that it’s possible the debt limit will be reached by June 16.
While the Treasury Department’s use of extraordinary measures would give Congress more time to address the debt ceiling, Trump is now urging lawmakers to take action now, before he takes office.
Why does Trump want to raise the debt ceiling?
The president-elect will come into office with a legislative to-do list that includes securing the border and extending provisions of his signature Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was enacted in 2017 and overhauled the tax code. But a fight over the debt ceiling could complicate efforts by the Republican-led House and Senate to focus on those legislative initiatives and pass them quickly.
Trump is urging lawmakers to eliminate the debt ceiling altogether, a position that some prominent Democrats have endorsed in the past.
“Number one, the debt ceiling should be thrown out entirely,” Trump said in a phone interview Thursday with CBS News’ Robert Costa. “Number two, a lot of the different things they thought they’d receive [in a recently proposed spending deal] are now going to be thrown out, 100 percent. And we’ll see what happens. We’ll see whether or not we have a closure during the Biden administration. But if it’s going to take place, it’s going to take place during Biden, not during Trump.”
Trump separately told ABC News that “there won’t be anything approved unless the debt ceiling is done with,” indicating any spending deal to prevent a shutdown must address the debt limit.
“If we don’t get it, then we’re going to have a shutdown, but it’ll be a Biden shutdown, because shutdowns only [injure] the person who’s president,” he told ABC News.
Whether Republicans and Democrats would go along with such a plan, though, is far from clear. GOP lawmakers in both chambers have opposed raising the debt ceiling without spending reforms, and debates over the debt limit often give way to broader fights over the federal budget, which conservatives in Congress have said is bloated and should be reduced. Plus, Democrats still control the Senate and the White House.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Wednesday that shutting down the government would harm families and endanger services Americans rely on.
“Republicans need to stop playing politics with this bipartisan agreement or they will hurt hardworking Americans and create instability across the country,” she said. “President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance ordered Republicans to shut down the government and they are threatening to do just that — while undermining communities recovering from disasters, farmers and ranchers, and community health centers.”
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries suggested Democrats would not go along with a plan pushed by Republicans to raise the debt limit.
“GOP extremists want House Democrats to raise the debt ceiling so that House Republicans can lower the amount of your Social Security check. Hard pass,” the New York Democrat wrote on the social media platform Bluesky.
Jeffries also told reporters “the debt limit issue and discussion is premature at best.”
