February 24, 2010
Gift Ideas A-Plenty Can Be Found Online
I must admit…I’m a gift klutz. I guess it’s not really that I’m bad about the giving part, itself. My difficulty is that I have an impossible time deciding. I’m just plain awful at coming up with original gift ideas. My solution, as you may have guessed by now, is 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’d actually be willing to pay someone just to make the decision for me, so why not buy their products if they can come up with good ideas. In my country, that’s the patriotic way to look at it!
Is there anyplace other than the online world where I might be inspired to send my mom a New York style cheesecake instead of the same boring chocolate cake I usually sent her? Fortunately, I can stretch this one idea out for many years simply by changing the flavor of cheesecake from one birthday to the next.
My daughter, who apparently gets her creative gift giving skills from me, found a jewelry idea for her aunt (on the good side of the family–not mine). While it turned out well for her, it made me jealous!
You can find gift ideas by searching for age groups, say teenagers (with whom I most the most trouble) and children. You can also use a search engine to find articles recommending gifts of all the gift giving occasions from Bat Mitzvahs or Easter, from anniversaries to house warmings, or even what I lovingly refer to as the “Hallmark holidays,” such as Valentine’s Day or Sweetest Day or take your terrier to work 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 lots of entire websites 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. Thanks, in advance.