January 18, 2010
Look to the Internet for Terrific Gift Ideas
I’m a little embarassed to admit this, but I am a gift giving catastrophe waiting to happen. No, I don’t stumble and break things before giving. 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 or creativity. My solution, as you may have guessed by this time, is the Internet.
The web has plenty of both traditional and non-traditional present ideas 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. I’m an American, and we think of that as patriotism.
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? 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 sister-in-law has my same decision making problem. She went online and discovered 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!
There are gift ideas online for various age groups like retired folks or young couples. You can also search using your favorite search engine by looking for gifts for a particular occasion from Christmas to Bar Mitzvahs, from anniversaries to house warmings, 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. If you already have the beginnings of an idea, which is already one step ahead of me, you can conduct a search for a product category. You might be inventive enough to know that you want to buy Cousin Martha a scarf, so you can check out which ones are most popular or unique or are the greenest. You might know that you want to buy your neighbor some accessory for his newly restored 1957 Chevy convertible. You can actually search for that sort of thing. The possibilities are mind boggling for me, of course so is a toaster.
Indeed, there are entire website pages and sites dedicated to people who give gift ideas for gift klutzes like me to steal and claim them as our own. If you have any great gift ideas, 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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