What do you get a person that has everything?
This is the ultimate guide to finding the perfect gift for anybody and everyone. Seriously. We at redditgifts have watched complete strangers put together, send, and receive countless tens of thousands of gifts in our online gift exchanges, and we've learned anything or two.
Most of us realize that thing about how exactly Christmas is the absolute most wonderful time of the entire year, but sometimes it may also be probably the most horrible time of the year.
Guess what happens I'm talking about. Gift shopping.
"Oh, I don't need anything," your spouse says. But you understand that isn't true. Then you will find your pals, parents, in-laws, and more. You may ask them what they need, and, if you're really lucky, they'll tell you exactly and you can go buy it, but that takes all of the romance from the event and causes it to be pretty impersonal. And you certainly absolutely don't want to resort to purchasing the DVD of Transformers 2 at Wal-Mart because it had been on sale for $3 on Black Friday, along with lots of other outdated and underwhelming movies.
This is the ultimate guide to finding the right gift for everyone and everyone. Seriously. We at redditgifts have watched complete strangers assembled, send, and receive countless tens of thousands of gifts within our online gift exchanges, and we've learned anything or two (or nine) about what makes a great gift.
1. Make the current an event. Get creative with the packaging! Rather than simply handing them a present in regular wrapping paper, think of the gifting experience as an event--and you wish to make certain they enjoy it. Hide his gift and send him on a scavenger hunt to locate it. Rather than simply giving him a gift card, hide a secret message in a Twilight book that sends him to the gift card code. Or sew her present into a huge stuffed shark so she's to accomplish surgery onto it to have it out. And never, ever, underestimate the sheer fun of unwrapping presents. Sometimes, quantity could mean quality, when it's a lot of small individually wrapped items.
2. Now, literally give an experience. She loves Les Mis but already gets the book and the movie and the movie poster? Buy her tickets to start to see the show. One of my all-time favorite gifts I've seen was a step-by-step mystery guide that sent the giftee to a restaurant, bought him a Flying Spaghetti Monster dinner, and covered him and his date to play at the arcade.
3. Make a list of all of the things the individual is interested in and items that define who they are. Make this list long--spend at the least two full minutes writing down as many things as you can. Now brainstorm something to go with every item on that list, small or big. You don't have to offer all of those gifts, but you're going hitting on some cool ideas you wouldn't have otherwise, and whenever you combine some of them, your giftee will appreciate how personal and thoughtful you were. One guy who is suffering from depression, loves science fiction, and is also thinking about male fashion got a potentially life-changing gift that has been perfectly tailored to him. Somebody who loves bacon got a year-long gourmet bacon-of-the-month subscription. Hell yes.
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