Gifts, Flowers & Food

Tips for Buying Gifts, Food, and Flowers

To give a gift from the heart that the recipient will appreciate, keep in mind the person’s likes and dislikes, your time with this person, the memories you’ve made together, and past gifts that you’ve given him/her. Reflect on every aspect of the potential gift – from design, to function, to color – because the recipient is bound to notice these small details in your gift. If your best friend collects Disney memorabilia, consider buying her a collectible figuring for her collection. If your father is a wine enthusiast, it’s likely that he’ll more than appreciate a bottle of his favorite fine wine. Trying to buy a generic gift for a gift swap or for a distant relative you haven’t seen in years, is much trickier than shopping for someone close to you. However, you can rarely go wrong with a beautiful plant, a bouquet of flowers, or a gift basket.

Personalized gifts – such as engraved jewelry, picture frames with special photographs, and embroidered blankets with a favorite quote – are often not the most expensive gifts, but they’re the most cherished. Even if you spend your rent money on the gift, if it’s not something the recipient finds useful, attractive, or sentimental, it can quickly find a corner spot in a dark closet. It’s those little gifts that are wrapped with special meanings that are commonly kept the longest and are most treasured.