Gifts for You

It can feel tough to get it right when it comes to gift giving for your girlfriend or boyfriend, sister or brother, mother or father,  friend or just gifts for you.

Instead of buying the same old thing (like a shirt that they’ll wear once), I think the trick is to think about useful and practical gifts for them in my life.

When I think back on the gifts I’ve given in the past, I immediately think about a scene from Forgetting Sarah Marshall:

Aldous doesn’t want to wear his new Tommy Bahama shirt, and there is a flashback of Peter wearing a terrible shirt and rocking a man purse he pretends to love because Sarah got them for him.

So, instead of buying gifts you think they’ll like because you do, buy them something that they’ll actually use in their day-to-day lives.

You know, the things that are helpful and that someone may not think to buy for themselves. Before I browsed for some gifts, I reached out to a guy friend to ask him what kind of things he wished he had that would make his life easier, and he came back at me with a ton of responses.

And guess what? They all made perfect sense. And most of them were super practical things that would make awesome gifts.

The next time you’re shopping, don’t buy the first shirt you see or something that you think would be really nice but no one actually needs. Buy something useful; because wouldn’t you rather someone actually get something out of your gift?