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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.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have required new cars to beep at drivers if they exceed the speed limit in an effort to reduce traffic deaths.
California would have become the first to require such systems for all new cars, trucks and buses sold in the state starting in 2030. The bill would have mandated that vehicles beep at drivers when they exceed the speed limit by at least 10 mph.
The European Union has passed similar legislation to encourage drivers to slow down. California’s proposal would have provided exceptions for emergency vehicles, motorcycles and motorized scooters.
In explaining his veto, Newsom said federal law already dictates vehicle safety standards and adding California-specific requirements would create a patchwork of regulations.
The National Highway Traffic Safety “is also actively evaluating intelligent speed assistance systems, and imposing state-level mandates at this time risks disrupting these ongoing federal assessments,” the Democratic governor said.
Opponents, including automotive groups and the state Chamber of Commerce, said such regulations should be decided by the federal government, which earlier this year established new requirements for automatic emergency braking to curb traffic deaths. Republican lawmakers also said the proposal could make cars more expensive and distract drivers.
The legislation would have likely impacted all new car sales in the U.S., since the California market is so large that car manufacturers would likely just make all of their vehicles comply.
California often throws that weight around to influence national and even international policy. The state has set its own emission standards for cars for decades, rules that more than a dozen other states have also adopted. And when California announced it would eventually ban the sale of new gas-powered cars, major automakers soon followed with their own announcement to phase out fossil-fuel vehicles.
Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, who sponsored the bill, called the veto disappointing and a setback for street safety.
“California should have led on this crisis as Wisconsin did in passing the first seatbelt mandate in 1961,” Wiener said in a statement. “Instead, this veto resigns Californians to a completely unnecessary risk of fatality.”
The speeding alert technology, known as intelligent speed assistance, uses GPS to compare a vehicle’s pace with a dataset of posted limits. If the car is at least 10 mph over, the system emits a single, brief, visual and audio alert.
The proposal would have required the state to maintain a list of posted speed limits, and it’s likely that those would not include local roads or recent changes in speed limits, resulting in conflicts.
The technology has been used in the U.S. and Europe for years. Starting in July, the European Union will require all new cars to have the technology, although drivers would be able to turn it off. At least 18 manufacturers including Ford, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Nissan, have already offered some form of speed limiters on some models sold in America, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 10% of all car crashes reported to police in 2021 were related to speeding. This was especially a problem in California, where 35% of traffic fatalities were speeding-related — the second highest in the country, according to a legislative analysis of the proposal.
Last year the NTSB recommended federal regulators require all new cars to alert drivers when they speed. Their recommendation came after a crash in January 2022, when a man with a history of speeding violations ran a red light at more than 100 mph and struck a minivan, killing himself and eight other people.
