I feel this in my soul and have also settled on food as a great gift for the hard-to-shop-for. Fancy truffle salt, fancy cheese (Murray’s has a fantastic alp blossom cheese that is covered in flowers and makes a lovely gift), obscure chocolates (Dr Bronners chocolate is surprisingly yummy and has a delightful backstory), that sort of thing.
I lean hard into homemade gifts, and yes if you're not crafty or artistic or a baker or cook, someone on Etsy is and is willing to sell you a thing. I've made variety tins of different flavors of Chex mix, those baking mix jar gifts, tinctured flavored liqueurs, hand-painted coasters, roasted flavored nuts, etc etc. There's also a reason that Swiss Colony and Thing-Of-The-Month outfits are still popular.
If all else fails, I live less than 2 hours away from a Yankee Candle outlet and it's always good for getting in the spirit and finding gifts for people.
I think this officially makes you an Old Man. I can picture this post in the op-eds of a print newspaper.
My sister loves to disguise gift cards in nesting boxes with strategic weights and etc so there's always that idea. I also do that with a printout of a gift that's still in transit.
Choice paralysis is a big thing of online shopping. You feel like if you don't do your due diligence reading reviews then you'll buy a piece of shit, so instead of seeing and grabbing an item in a store the entire thing is an hour-long ordeal like you're researching a fucking car instead of a bidet sprayer or whatever.
I feel this in my soul and have also settled on food as a great gift for the hard-to-shop-for. Fancy truffle salt, fancy cheese (Murray’s has a fantastic alp blossom cheese that is covered in flowers and makes a lovely gift), obscure chocolates (Dr Bronners chocolate is surprisingly yummy and has a delightful backstory), that sort of thing.
We went to Belgium earlier this year so all the gift baskets have fancy foreign chocolates in them
I lean hard into homemade gifts, and yes if you're not crafty or artistic or a baker or cook, someone on Etsy is and is willing to sell you a thing. I've made variety tins of different flavors of Chex mix, those baking mix jar gifts, tinctured flavored liqueurs, hand-painted coasters, roasted flavored nuts, etc etc. There's also a reason that Swiss Colony and Thing-Of-The-Month outfits are still popular.
If all else fails, I live less than 2 hours away from a Yankee Candle outlet and it's always good for getting in the spirit and finding gifts for people.
I think this officially makes you an Old Man. I can picture this post in the op-eds of a print newspaper.
My sister loves to disguise gift cards in nesting boxes with strategic weights and etc so there's always that idea. I also do that with a printout of a gift that's still in transit.
Choice paralysis is a big thing of online shopping. You feel like if you don't do your due diligence reading reviews then you'll buy a piece of shit, so instead of seeing and grabbing an item in a store the entire thing is an hour-long ordeal like you're researching a fucking car instead of a bidet sprayer or whatever.
i dont do buying stuff holidays