What to give?

Someone very inexperienced said (and we repeat after him for decades) that the book - the best gift. Not the best of all possible: who likes the books.

In the bookstores I and carries a section of Fine Arts: Oh, what albums to paintings there are, oh, what a polygraph, oh, what rarities at the price tag ... I'm afraid to even look - impossibly high prices! But here's a gift I bought this album to your friends, tastes, which I know well. I am sure that my gift would have liked it if only for the simple reason that for themselves they would not have spent that kind of thing, but would very much like to have it.

Mutually dislike people who give me money. Tit. Not us says: roads are not gift expensive attention. That's a lack of attention to myself I do not like them. Everyone knows what a pleasure - to give gifts. More than receive, that's for sure. Doubly happy when your gift is otgadkoy to the riddle: what would this man wanted to get, but he will not allow themselves this? After all, we live in a world of money, all balanced against their potential with their wishes, and all his somewhat flaky. And especially in those things without which we can do. Maybe it's because these things are so welcome.

That's why I guided this uncomplicated principle, choosing gifts. These are my gifts are different from those that give people guided by the principle that it is necessary to give useful and necessary things. I do not argue against this principle. I just do not like it: useful and necessary things, I prefer to fly myself, but as a gift to make me happier is something treasured, original and unexpected.

Giving gift cards, I also think godforsaken thing - the same money only from certain stores. Or networks of different shops. Convenient for the giver, but somehow bleak for the recipient: he went and otovaril card. Fu, boring ...

We are not Santa Claus - strangers we do not give gifts. Usually we endows those who know the good and close. But sometimes there are situations when you need to do, as we call it, a gift of gratitude. In such cases, the U.S. usually send a gift basket. They are different - placing an order, you can choose variety of baskets: wine, whiskey, tequila, cheese, fruits, nuts, candy, chocolate, salami, seasonings, olives, capers, pickles, jars of marinara, sardines, fish roe, crab cakes , soltinki, all kinds of snacks. These baskets are always very professionally designed and beautifully packaged.

They decided to send in medical offices or hospitals after treatment, the organizations with which you conduct business and have successfully completed. In such cases, the gift basket will be sent immediately after delivery or completion of the cases. Services that you use on a regular basis throughout the year (car repair, hair salon, dry cleaning), adopted bestow the same baskets to Christmas.

What good is this kind of gift? It is designed for the whole team, not addressed to anyone in person, and always perceived not as a solo of bedding, as well as thanks to the entire firm around the office, all departments, all divisions.

In U.S. offices made before Christmas display such gifts to the public, and postcards received in baskets, as well as those that are simply sent by e-mail clients and business partners, are posted for review on the general board. The contents of the baskets is exposed to the public destruction in lanchevoy room. After receiving a basket of the donor on the same day received universal appreciation.

Sometimes gift baskets are saved until Christmas corporate party and become part of the holiday ekshena: congratulations to be read aloud to all present, and the contents of the basket or eaten immediately or taken away employees in the form of gifts to their homes.

Of individual gifts to friends and family want to talk specifically. To make your gift memorable, and sometimes hurt to make a preliminary reconnaissance in force. For example: I know that LA was once an avid deep sea fisherman. But whether he fishes now and let it be Conditions today to go deep-sea safari, you should gently and as if in passing, to clarify. If you've verified that your LA would love to go fishing, feel free to buy him a gift card on a fishing trip with a hired speedboat and a captain. Such a gift this angler never forgets.

All we go to salons. Who haircut, makeup artist who applies to those who have a massage, a beautician who. Salons, we choose its means and preferences. However, in every town probably has one or two supersalona that not every woman can afford on a regular basis. If it were not for gifts, I would have never got to Mario Trikochchi or Annie Arden. Thanks to my friends, I once in my life, but traveled to the famous salons. Though she looked, how they're stars pleasuring!

One of my female friends living in the sparsely retired and very modest in cost. From past conversations, I learned that she and late husband often traveled to play in Las Vegas. And the main zakoperschikom was exactly it. Certainly, on its 70 anniversary, it got away from her husband a gift in the form of a credit card from the nearest casino. She later admitted to me that among all our gifts has been the most enjoyable - have lost it outright, but long-forgotten pleasure just got the car!

In our family decided to give ekstrimchiki: pay for skydiving, horseback trips, daring rides, sports shooting, fishing, hunting, skiing on the rivers, ski trip. Everyone knows that such gifts will be appreciated: he does not always allow, as a gift to take a pleasure! And the reason is to gather as a family and participate together.

But those who do not like extremes, it is safe to give a walk on the boat with a celebratory dinner, tickets to the opera or concert, at an auto show, card on the trip to an exotic restaurant, at Cirque du Soleil, a boxing match, a football match on participate in the TV show with the famous talk-showmen on film festivals, at rallies, at the inauguration of the president, finally!

The main thing is that this gift was exactly what would a man like and what he himself can not, as redundant, allow.

Let's give the excesses, not the "ice cream for children, a woman - the flowers," as the late Papanov. So you'd like to try turtle soup? I would like, but the three-digit price is right on the menu operated sobering. But how nice it was to get in the evening for a gift card, and dissipate it to turtle to hell! And let her soup as the soup was! But ...

But even with a surprise gift that will always be properly appreciated: if you're invited to a celebration in a separate hall, invite a gift of good-camera exchange. Video on such a triumph would always remind the hero of the occasion of your special attention to him. Why not invite a couple of rooms performing group of singers or dancers, magicians, DJ's, gypsy chorus? This will be remembered forever, although the meat grinder as a gift is more useful on the farm.