spend within your budget (Gifts For the One Who Has Everything in general)

Member Name: mrsbbq

Product:	Gifts For the One Who Has Everything in general
Date:	10/11/00 (94 review reads)
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Advantages: a little thought before you shop makes all the difference

Disadvantages: that huge hole in your pocket!

How many of us long for the kind of Christmases we see on The Waltons or Little House on the Prairie, where the gifts exchanged are hand made with love, or purchased with pennies that have been hoarded all year? The recipient carefully unwraps the childishly wrapped gift, and gratefully wraps the scarf around his neck or pins the brooch to her throat, blinking back the tears of joy.

The most welcome gifts for most of us are not the flashy but useless stuff but the items chosen with care. Take a few moments to think about the recipient of the gift. Someone who adores a certain brand of perfume (and there is nothing more flattering than being asked what fragrance one is wearing) would be delighted with the matching soap or bath oil. Grandparents adore gifts of recent photographs of their growing family, especially if presented in an attractive frame. Food and drink are always welcome, choose one or two luxury items, and present in an attractive box or carton. A couple of bottles or sherry or sparkling wine, or whiskey and champagne if your budget stretches to it, make excellent last minute gifts that suit male and female, young and old alike.

I am also a great believer in gift vouchers. M&S were always my old standby, however I now prefer to choose those that can be spent in a range of stores, for example Kingfisher (Woolies, Superdrug, B&Q) or Waterstones/HMV vouchers.

Whatever your final choice, make sure you don't look too disappointed when you get the usual round of socks and bobble hats!

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