Grandparents Day Gift Guide · Sunday, September 13
The frame, the candle, the mug with the year on it: they have those. What they do not have is a reason to try the new place on the corner. Give a Keep It Local: Downtown Windsor, good at over 10 independent businesses around Windsor Center. Then go with them.
Not money, and not another object for the shelf. A morning at the diner, a browse through the bookshop, coffee that turns into an hour.
over 10 independent businesses in Windsor Center. Their pick, not your guess.
What they spend goes to the Windsor Center businesses they already walk past, not to a national chain.
These Windsor Center businesses accept the Keep It Local: Downtown Windsor Card. Let them decide which one.
The diner, the bakery counter, the coffee place around Windsor Center where nobody rushes you out.
Food
55 Palisado Ave, Windsor, Connecticut, 06095
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330 Broad St, Windsor, Connecticut, 06095
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124 Poquonock Ave, Windsor, Connecticut, 06095
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296 Broad St, Suite C, Windsor, Connecticut, 06095
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150 Broad St, Suite 501, Windsor, Connecticut, 06095
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226 Broad St, Windsor, Connecticut, 06095
Bookshops, antique stores, garden centers. The kind of browse that fills an afternoon.
Shopping
332 Poquonock Ave, Windsor, Connecticut, 06095
Shopping
150 Broad St, Suite 400, Windsor, Connecticut, 06095
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318 Broad St, Windsor, Connecticut, 06095
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296 Broad St, Windsor, Connecticut, 06095
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96 Palisado Ave., Windsor, Connecticut, 06095
Museums, galleries, a show around Windsor Center. Better as a plan than as a package.
The barber, the salon, a wellness stop close to home. Time that is theirs.
Pick the delivery date during checkout and set it for Sunday, September 13, so a Keep It Local: Downtown Windsor is waiting in their inbox that morning.
Pick the amount that feels right.
Say where you two should go.
Delivered by email, or print it to hand over. No shipping, no wrapping.
National Grandparents Day falls on the first Sunday after Labor Day, which makes it Sunday, September 13 in 2026. It has been a federal observance in the U.S. since 1978.
The Keep It Local: Downtown Windsor is accepted at over 10 independent businesses in Windsor Center: restaurants, cafés, bakeries, shops, and salons. They pick where and when.
Then this is probably the wrong gift for them, and it is worth saying so plainly. The Keep It Local: Downtown Windsor is redeemable only at local businesses in Windsor Center, so it suits someone who lives in or regularly visits the area. A grandparent who visits now and then can spend it on this trip. Unused balances can incur inactivity fees: a $3.00 fee will be deducted monthly starting on the 1st day after 12 consecutive months without card usage.
Choose an amount, add a note, and send it by email, or print it to hand over in person. Nothing ships.
Yes. Pick the delivery date during checkout and set it for Sunday, September 13.
Often that is exactly who buys it. It works the same way in that direction, as long as the grandchild is close enough to spend it at businesses in Windsor Center.
E-delivery fees vary by community, and some communities cover them. Whatever applies to your order is shown at checkout before you pay, alongside the card amount and your total.
A Keep It Local: Downtown Windsor they can spend at over 10 independent Windsor Center businesses. Sent by email. Spent down the street.
Buy a Keep It Local: Downtown Windsor