Nothing beats the feeling of seeing the happiness of your loved ones when they receive a gift from you. However, before that, there can be a whole lot of stress on your part.
According to research, nearly 75% of Americans often don’t like a gift they receive. According to a survey by Consumer Reports, 42% of gift recipients returned a present.
Finding the perfect gift for someone can be challenging. You want to be thoughtful, you want them actually to like it, AND most of us want to stick to a budget (unless you’re a millionaire).
Everyone has experienced wandering around a shopping mall or endlessly searching Amazon, hoping for an idea of what present to buy. Before you know it, you’ve spent a lot of your precious time in search of the perfect gift.
Remember This One Important Thing
It’s effortless to go to a random store and buy the first thing you see without thinking about it. It will save you a lot of time, and you won’t have to go to the birthday party empty-handed.
And, as the famous saying goes, “It’s the thought that counts.” A quick purchase, from a store or the web, no matter the price tag, can often signal a lack of thought!
Questions Before Buying
Here are three questions to ask yourself before you set out looking for the perfect present.
- What’s Your Budget? – This is the very first thing you should consider before doing anything else. Remember a great gift doesn’t necessarily have to break the bank!
Knowing your budget will help you understand where to shop and what to look for.
- What Do They Like? – Consider your recipients’ interests and hobbies and start from there. A person who is into knitting will most likely appreciate if you give them sewing
supplies and someone who likes the outdoors would like camping gear.
- What’s Their “Gift Personality”? – Did you know each one of us has a gifted personality? Our gift personality is how we think about presents.
- The Experience-seeker is a person who prefers experiences over things. Ideal presents for someone who has this personality are concert tickets, spa packages or a weekend getaway.
- The Pragmatist likes practical things. Gadgets, tools or anything useful is ideal gifts for people who belong to this category. Think of presents that you know they need or will make their life easier.
- The Grown-up Kid likes gifts that are fun. Clothing, accessories and video games are just some things they like. They don’t care much about practicality. Having fun is what’s essential for them.
- And lastly, we have the Keepsaker. This is someone who likes gifts that have meaning behind them. They prefer handmade over store-bought. Sentiment over the price tag. The more personal, the better.
Our Top 10 Unique Gift Ideas
At this point, you kind of have an idea what you should get. But what if that someone already has everything? Here are insanely unique gift ideas that anybody would want!
VidHug enables you to easily create a beautiful montage video starring friends & family, telling funny stories, singing happy birthday or simply expressing their heartfelt love. It’s a perfect surprise, filled with thoughtfulness and meaning and especially useful in long-distance situations, where not everyone can attend the festivities in person.
If you want to deliver a big smile (and maybe even tears of joy) on that particular day, give a VidHug. The Keepsaker in your group will love it, but so will everyone else!
This is a vase that doubles as a smartphone dock. This will not only charge phones but serves as a decoration as well. No more messy charger chords!
It seems like candles nowadays can smell like anything. Paddywax has a Library Collection for all bibliophiles out there. Every candle fragrance is designed to evoke the spirit of author
for which it is named. The options include Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, Leo Tolstoy, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Shakespeare.
The LED Word Clock displays time as text so that time such as 2:45 is shown as “It is a quarter to three.” With its minimalist design, it can work with any decor and can be
placed on the wall or any flat surface.
They might not be efficient, but for someone who enjoys writing journals, these ombre pencils are real winners. If you are buying a gift for a student, they will surely take down
notes more often with these cute pencils.
According to the Huffington Post, coloring activities can help tremendously with individuals with PTSD, anxiety, and stress issues, as they calm down our amygdala.
The part of the brain that controls our fight or flight response and keeps individuals in a heightened state of worry, panic, and hyper-vigilance when it is active. No wonder adult coloring books are so popular!
This cool gadget uses laser technology to project a keyboard onto a flat surface.
It can be used to text or write lengthy emails on phones and connects via Bluetooth.
This lamp is not an ordinary lamp. The elegant frame is handcrafted from rich walnut and features a vintage-inspired Edison bulb that emits a warm, ambient glow.
This will give any room a unique flair.
This umbrella can sync to smartphones and will send a notification if its owner has wandered too far from it. This is all thanks to a tiny beacon chip embedded into the handle that will broadcast a unique “proximity signal” from your umbrella.
This signal is read by an app on your smartphone which can track the distance between the phone and umbrella. This is extremely useful for people who seem to continually lose their umbrellas.
These adorable salt and pepper shakers will make anyone feel magical. Each shaker dispenses salt or pepper with a wave of the wand. This is surely a fun way to pass salt and pepper
around the table.
If you are giving a present to someone who lives far away, these long-distance friendship lamps are the perfect gift. When one lamp is touched, the other lights up no matter where it is to let your loved one know that you are thinking about them.
Five Things to Remember when Giving Gifts
- Don’t wait to buy at the last minute – I understand that you might be very busy and you have a lot of things you need to do. But shopping weeks before the birthday will ensure you won’t rush into buying something.
- Never just give money – Giving someone money so they can buy whatever they want is very impersonal. It sends out a message that you couldn’t be bothered to think about them.
- The price of the gift is unimportant – The best gifts are not the expensive ones but the ones that are carefully thought of and special.
- Always wrap a gift – There’s something special about opening up a present. Therefore, every present should be wrapped up. This shows that you took a great deal of time and care over the gift.
- Always include a message – Don’t just buy cards with a generic message, but compose the message yourself.
It goes without saying a gift is a perfect way to appreciate someone special in your life. Even the simplest gifts can ignite a new flame of love between you and the special lady in your life.
When buying her a gift, you should try to be different and add some creativity. Practical gifts are recommended because these are items she’ll keep and cherish for a long time.
One of the challenges men have while searching for the perfect gift is exposure to many different ideas. It can be a trial to choose from hundreds of gifts out there.
To save you the time of searching for the most ideal items, here are some practical gifts you can buy for the woman you love that will communicate your feelings loudly.
