I’ve been busy with work and struggling through a research-heavy piece. I’ve decided to do the responsible thing and write something completely unrelated to anything that I’m supposed to be working on. Enjoy! Gift-giving, to me, has always seemed like sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. You can try to give a gift that’s incredibly personalized, and risk guessing incorrectly, like when my aunt gave me a hermit crab habitat for my birthday even though I didn’t own (and had no plans to own) a hermit crab. Or you try to give a blandly inoffensive gift and risk seeming impersonal, like when my dad bought every single member of the family a Flip video camera including himself and then he was the only one that used it, leaving him with 4 backup video cameras.
I've pretty much abandoned gift-giving for _occasions_. If I see a thing that I'm sure somebody will like, I just get it and give it to them for no occasion in particular, but I don't do gifts for holidays / birthdays / anniversaries.
I've pretty much abandoned gift-giving for _occasions_. If I see a thing that I'm sure somebody will like, I just get it and give it to them for no occasion in particular, but I don't do gifts for holidays / birthdays / anniversaries.
Good strategy and happy holidays!