We choose gifts: useful advice.7 tips for choosing a gift
Do you like to receive gifts? And give? And choose? For most people, the process of choosing gifts is a rather painful procedure, especially if you want to give something really necessary, useful, with meaning, and not get off with a nice trinket. How often a gift turns out to be unnecessary and it remains to collect dust somewhere on the shelf in the closet, or even be transferred at all - and all this is a consequence of the inattentiveness of the giver, his ignorance of the elementary rules of choosing gifts.
Nevertheless, the gift industry is now developed so well that it is simply sinful if you do not give a person what he always dreamed of, then, at least, what he sincerely rejoice. How to choose the right gift?
7 tips for choosing a gift
1. Find out about a person's hobbies. According to his hobby, you can choose the right gift. Give a florist a houseplant, a book lover - an encyclopedia, a lover of board games - backgammon handmade, a collector of spirits - a mini-bar.
2. Gifts related to the profession of man. Choosing the right gift will help not only the hobby, but also the profession of man. Surely a businessman will not give up a good organizer, a programmer - from a new useful gadget, and for a football player there will be a "native" alarm clock in the form of a soccer ball.
3. A gift by nature. The character of a person is also an important criterion, based on which you can choose the right gift. For a person with a good sense of humor fun gifts are suitable - good, in our time, they have a great variety for every taste. For extreme it is possible to give a jump from a parachute or flight on a hang-glider, diving under water or descent on a bungee.
4. A gift related to events in life. Do the culprit of the celebration have a child recently born? You can choose a gift in the form of a baby monitor or a sling. Birthday - birthday? Then he will be pleased with the objects of life, protections for the house, dishes. Are you going to visit a person who has experienced an uneasy period in your life? Give him something that cheers up.
5. Reason for the holiday. A gift can be character exclusively for a specific holiday and will remind you of it for many years. But here too, be original and do not stop on cuff links on the day of February 23 or vase on March 8.You need to choose a gift that is not expected from you, to whom you will be surprised and happy.
6. You can just ask , that the originator of the celebration would like to see as a gift, from him or his relatives. Believe me, a well-known, but a necessary gift is a hundred times better than a useless surprise.
7. If you decide to to give money , approach this question outside the box. The fact that in conventional envelopes money has not been given for a long time, even it does not go - for this there are special postcards-envelopes. You can also make a money tree or give a piggy bank with a paper bill in it.
Carefully approach the acquisition of such things as a gift:
1. Interior items, home decor ( vases, room fountains, paintings, etc.) Such a gift may simply not "fit" into the overall atmosphere of the house or not come uptaste.
2. Clothes - here it is easy to guess with the model, size and color.
3. Pets - unless you are sure that the culprit of the celebration is dreaming of a parrot or cat.
4. Cosmetics, perfumes - unless you know for certain that the person for whom you want to choose a gift, uses this lipstick and exactly the same perfume.
5. Household appliances - can not be elementary characteristics, and it will be doubly insulting to you, and the originator of the celebration, because the goods of this group are not cheap.
Do not use as a gift:
1. Gifts, in any way associated with a person's shortcomings .Roughly speaking, if the culprit of the celebration has a bald spot, it is not necessary to give him a remedy for hair loss. Do not remind me of the bad day of the holiday!
2. Gifts for the Future ( "I'm sure, someday it will come in handy!")
3. Things from your house , even those that you have never( or almost never) used. Firstly, it is unethical, and secondly, the birthday person could notice this thing in your home and take offense, having received such a gift.
4. Things with marriage - even if you notice it after purchase( leave this thing to yourself and buy something else).
5. The fact that there is already in the originator of the celebration.
Going to the process of choosing gifts creatively, devoting him a sufficient amount of time, you will surely pick the option that pleases the culprit of the celebration, and get the reward phrase "That's what I dreamed about!"