| A few tips, for those of you
who wish to give good gifts to your loved ones, but just don't have a clue.
You can thank me later. |
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| Appliances are never a "gift"
item for a loved one, be it their birthday, Christmas, your anniversary,
Chanukah, whatever. You do not want a snow blower for your birthday. She
does not want a vacuum cleaner. I don't care how many times she said she
wanted a particular vacuum cleaner - she wants it because it will help with
her chores. Not because she's going to have a great lot of fun vacuuming
the rug with it. Gifts for loved ones should be items to be enjoyed. Not
for household useage. |
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| In the same token, ladies, don't
get your husband a snow blower for his birthday, either. No matter how often
he says he likes a particular carpet cleaner, that's not a gift. These kinds
of items are considered household equipment, not gifts. No matter how nice
a set of cassarole dishes are, they're going to be used for the benefit
of the family that eats out of them, not as a source of enjoyment by the
recipient. |
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| That is not to say that any
of these gifts aren't perfect for newliweds or new home owners, who can
genuinely use them because they are unlikely to have them and are already
faced with the overwhelming burden of buying EVERYTHING that having your
own place requires all at once. Your gift of dishes, towels, and lawn mowers
are going to be truely appreciated by these people. Your wife or husband
or live in lover, however, doesn't want this as a gift. Go out and buy them
together, because you need them, but don't present them as a gift for your
anniversary. "Oh joy, you got me a set of dishes for the both of us
to eat out of. And I got you that video game you've been wanting for the
last 3 months, which you will now spend a good month playing pretty much
24/7 until you beat it." Do you see the inequality here? Anything that
can be divided up as part of community property in the event of a divorce
is NOT a gift. Your wife can't say she owns the dishes entirely, because
you all use them. Your husband can't say that the deep freezer is only his,
either - it's got all your food in it. Get the picture? |
