Look to the Internet for Lots of Present Ideas
I’m a little embarassed to admit this, but I am a gift giving catastrophe. I guess it’s not really that I’m bad about the giving part, itself. Whenever it is gift-giving time, it just takes me forever to move beyond the decision stage. I don’t know why my ideas seem to me to lack any originality. I’m sure you’ve already guessed the solution to my despair: the Internet.
The Internet is full of the usual and the unusual when it comes to gift suggestions. Of course I know that a lot of the people making suggestions are actually trying to get me to spend my hard earned money. Actually, I don’t even object to that. I figure if someone can help me solve my gift quandry, then they deserve to make a profit from my purchase. In my country, that’s the patriotic way to look at it!
Where else except the Internet could I have learned that I could send my mom a New York style cheesecake in place of the tin of cookies I sent year after year? Yes, I am clever enough that now I figured out on my own that I can even radically change to a different cheesecake flavor!
My daughter, who apparently gets her creative gift giving skills from me, found a bracelet idea for her grandmother. It worked out beautifully for her but it raised the bar to a higher standard for me.
You can find gift ideas by searching for age groups, say teenagers (with whom I most the most trouble) and children. You can also search using your favorite search engine by looking for gifts for a particular occasion from Bat Mitzvahs or Easter, birthdays to graduations, or even those holidays when nobody seems to really know the origin, such as Sweetest Day or St. Astor’s day or Siamese kitten day. You can even search by the category of the item that you want to give. For example, you might know that you want to give a video game for a Playstation, a piece of jewelry that includes diamonds (you’ve just moved out of my price range) or even a gift for a dog.
There are many entire website pages and sites created for gift klutzes just like me where people publish ideas. It seems that they have so many ideas they can afford to share them. If you happen to be one of those sorts of blessed people with too many ideas to use yourself, please put them online so that I can find them or you could just send the item directly to me and I’ll forward it to my favorite recipient. You can count on my everlasting appreciation.
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