Singles Matchmaking

It is usually really hard to come up with good gifts for people you don’t know very well. The first thing to your mind might be to look for stuff the recipient will like and have practical use for. But how do you know what this person will consider practical? Another mistake some people do is to buy gifts that appeal to themselves without considering the taste of the recipient.

If you think about it, what you consider practical, is probably completely useless for somebody else. My grandma received a bunch of cooking stuff on her birthday from my mother, because they both like to cook. I too usually receive cookbooks and similar kitchen stuff from them on my birthday. Are cookbooks practical for me? Not really, unless you count that I give them away to other people on their birthdays.

The truth is that if you are one of the lucky people that live in our modern western society, you probably already own everything you like, want or consider practical. Of course sometimes someone will give you something you will use for years to come, but chances are if you needed something you would have just bought it for yourself.

Left are the gifts that invoke some kind of positive emotion. A parent will be much happier if his 10 year old kid does something nice for them in crafts class than if the kid would buy them something. On a similar note, your partner will probably appreciate a nice framed picture of you two together in your favourite spot even though it has no practical or monetary value.

It is here that I will recommend the gag gift or prank gift. At first glance gag gifts are usually cheap throwaway things, but imagine if you can find a perfect prank gift that will have everyone at the party laughing about it for hours? Of course this gift will be better remembered than all the socks, cookbooks, money envelopes and other gifts taken together. And its not like a gag gift is very expensive, so you can always just give one away together with a “serious” gift for an unbeatable combo!