Hello dear readers! The New Year holidays are over and together with them, in theory, the theme of gifts should go into the background, however, February 23 and March 8 are not far off, so I propose to raise the gift topic again.
That year I received two very valuable gifts from my close friends. When they asked what to give me, I roughly represented their budget and named the things I needed that I myself have not been able to purchase for several years now. And on my birthday I receive two well-known and predictable gifts. And you know what? I am not at all offended that the element of surprise was lost, because I use these gadgets quite often and for the longest time I didn’t get my hands on them. One of the gifts, by the way, is an Eye-Fi memory card from SanDisk, which is sold, judging by I. The market is only a couple of stores located quite far from me. And now, when I use it almost every day when photographing devices for articles, it always I remember with gratitude my friends who found the time to go to one of the stores and buy it.
Gifts with an element of surprise are very cool, but there is a high probability of a miss and in the end you yourself will spend a lot of money on unnecessary goods and the person will not be particularly happy. It is clear that they do not look a gift horse in the mouth, but this does not mean that one should not be more careful about the choice of gifts.
A good universal gift is definitely money. You give the person the opportunity to independently choose what he needs. If not for one 'but'. I don’t know about you, but my donated money usually goes not for a coveted gift, but for some routine expenses, you immediately remember that something had to be bought for a long time or money is urgently needed for medicines or something else. In fact, a gift with money only creates the illusion of freedom, but in fact it is always spent on something that I would like to buy.
I was only able to guess a few times with gifts for friends, usually about six months before my birthday, I began to pay attention to their words that they needed this or that thing. You can just ask what people want a week before the holiday, it will be practical, albeit without the element of surprise.
How do you choose gifts, dear readers? Ask your friends in advance what they need? Buy at your own discretion? Are you just giving money?