Comments on: Good Gifts To Give: Five Guidelines To Giving Gifts Your Family and Friends Will Love

By: Kate Hollifield

Kate Hollifield — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:31:43 +0000

Another gift for the person who has “everything” is to make a donation in their name to their favorite charity. Done this for my mother on occassion who doesn’t like “STUFF”.

By: Prime Sarmiento

Prime Sarmiento — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:00:56 +0000

I always loved practical gifts – things that I really need *(such as biodegradable soaps, hypoallergenic personal care products ) and/or reduce my expenses (one month’s gym dues, paid yoga sessions, a dinner in a nice cafe). But most peiople would rather give things that are just cute but useless. hayyyy.

another thing, people should just give gifts to people they care about and not just because they need to give something this xmas. i know that sounds like i’m such a scrooge, but i don’t believe in useless gift giving

By: http://cgervasi.blogspot.com/

http://cgervasi.blogspot.com/ — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:49:04 +0000

I agree about avoiding gifts. It’s better, IMHO, if you can take it step further and eliminate holiday gifts altogether and replace them with fun activities. It’s easier to remember activities and events. It’s hard for most people to recall any gifts from the past winter holiday.

We live in an overdeveloped world with more than enough stuff. We need more time to relax and do fun stuff.

By: Derek Halpern

Derek Halpern — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:58:20 +0000

Thank you Erica for the tips.

The best gifts are gifts that save money – I can’t think of anything better.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:46:58 +0000

I think your ideas are fantastic, but I’m a practial person, so I would. I’m giving my sister and best friend’s families “Game Night” baskets filled with board games so that they can spend quality time together. I’m giving some people cleaning supplies that I make myself along with the directions on how to make them when they run out…very green and thrifty.

I’m trying to think of a gift to honor my late mother-in-law….

By: Zend

Zend — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:05:58 +0000

Oh, Erica!
If everyone took your suggestions here to heart, the holidays would be so dull and boring and I wouldn’t look forward to them so.
I, for one, don’t want “practical” stuff, for the most part. On the contrary, I want things I *wouldn’t* buy for myself. That’s part of the fun of receiving gifts!
Gift cards are nice, but they’re boring to unwrap. Electronic gift cards are even worse. A cash gift is worst of all because people aren’t going to spend it on some luxury for themselves, they’re going to spend it on bills or something. (Did they really think the economic stimulus package wouldn’t go to bills? Ha!)
So yeah, I want STUFF. BIG STUFF that takes about an hour to open because it has a TON of wrapping paper on it. And no, I won’t return or regift it if I don’t like it because that’s obnoxious and just plain rude.
(HAPPY HOLIDAYS!)
Love,

~~~Zend

By: Hunter Nuttall

Hunter Nuttall — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:50:55 +0000

Ruth’s Chris is my dad’s favorite place. Hopefully he’ll never get sick of it, because it makes a great gift!

By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:00:39 +0000

Hi Erica – what brilliant gift ideas. This is really helpful – I’m always pushed for Christmas shopping time, so I get most stuff online.

I really love the idea of the long lasting lightbulbs – I bet nobody had received those before.

The idea of subscriptions is great too. And the restaurant vouchers are a great idea. Thank you. I suck at coming up with gift ideas.

By: StartBreakingFree.com

StartBreakingFree.com — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:18:26 +0000

You’re absolutely right about this, no more STUFF!! I like the idea of giving people an experience. Thanks Erica.