Gift cards and money as a gift

Studies have shown that this is a very stressful time of the year. So how can that be? Isn’t the Christmas season suppose to be a time of joy, peace and happiness? Well, tell that to the many millions of people who spend many sleepless nights agonizing over, you guessed it, what to buy for a particular person for Christmas. We all have those people in our lives. It could be a family member who has everything. Or maybe you are involved in a Secret Santa thing  at work and drew the name of someone you barely talk to or hardly know anything about.

Some people feel that it is the easy way out to give a gift card to someone but I totally disagree.  Unless the person I am buying a gift for is specific, I will just give them a gift card or maybe money as a gift. Now that person has so many more options. He or she may walk into that store with the gift card and find something that they really, really need.  For example, I hate when people buy me clothing items. I’m very picky in what I want especially the color. A gift card from a clothing store will really help me in that respect. By the way, for those women out there, buying clothes for men is not always the best idea. Let the guy pick out what he wants!

My main goal when buying a gift for someone is to make them as happy as possible.  I would rather give than receive. Giving a nice gift to someone and seeing the happiness on their face really makes my day.  Sometimes a small little piece of plastic can do the same trick for those hard to buy for people. Like myself!! There is nothing wrong with buying someone a gift card for Christmas. They will probably love it and you will not have to deal with the anxiety of figuring out what to buy.  And you will have not have to deal with all that wrapping.

 

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