Practical Guidelines on Gift Giving
by Christmas is indeed one of the busiest, if not the busiest, season of the year. It pays to plan ahead in order to avoid the burned-out feeling of the Christmas paranoia. Due to this, sometimes we tend to forget to enjoy the reason for the celebration. Here are three basic rules you may apply in your gift giving practices.
1. Make a card and gift cache. Throughout the year, during store visits or on trips, if you buy cards or simple interesting things, and you have some extra budget, why not buy several of those. Then stash them away in a hidden secure spot unknown to the family. If you can’ty make up your mind between two items, buy both. Too expensive? No. In the long run you are way ahead. Watch for sales and bargains, but dont buy the boring traditional things. Look for something surprising and different. With a well-hidden supply you will never come up short on those memorable days each year.
2. Don’t try to match prices in your gifting. The pervasive idea of matching someone else’s monetary value in gifts is just plain destructive of the joy of giving.
3. Be a co-conspirator. Take every chance you can get to share secrets with family members, officemates, classmates or friends. Secrets such as “What should we give ( ______ ) this Christmas?” Keep a lively mystery going. You don’t have to play the Santa Claus part with the cotton beard and red pajamas. Leave that to the younger generation. Even dad can be one of the kids.
The agenda is for the family or group to get together and build happy unforgettable memories without encouraging greed and competitiveness in giving and receiving.
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