I’m a little embarassed to admit this, but I am a gift giving catastrophe waiting to happen.  No, I don’t stumble and break the gifts before giving.  My problem is that I have an impossible time deciding.  I don’t know why my ideas seem to me to lack any originality.  My solution, as you may have guessed by this time, is the Internet.

The Internet is full of the usual and the unusual when it comes to gift suggestions.  Of course I know that a lot of the people making suggestions are actually trying to get me to spend my hard earned money.  Actually, I don’t even object to that.  I’d actually be willing to pay someone just to make the decision for me, so why not buy their products if they can come up with good ideas.  I’m an American, and we think of that as patriotism.

Is there anyplace other than the online world where I might be inspired to get my mother a New York cheesecake instead of the same boring chocolate cake I usually sent her?  Yes, I am clever enough that now I figured out on my own that I can even radically change to a different cheesecake flavor!

My daughter, who apparently gets her creative gift giving skills from me, found a bracelet idea for her grandmother.  It worked out beautifully for her but it raised the bar to a higher standard for me.

There are gift ideas online for various age groups like retired folks or young couples.  You can also search using your favorite search engine by looking for gifts for a particular occasion from Christmas to Bar Mitzvahs, birthdays to graduations, or even what I lovingly refer to as the “Hallmark holidays,” such as Valentine’s Day or Sweetest Day or take your terrier to work day.  If you already have the beginnings of an idea, which is already one step ahead of me, you can conduct a search for a product category.  For example, you might know that you want to give a video game for a Playstation, a piece of jewelry that includes diamonds (you’ve just moved out of my price range) or even a gift for a dog.

There are many entire websites dedicated to people who give gift ideas for gift klutzes like me to steal and claim them as our own.  If you have any great gift ideas, please put them online so that I can find them or you could just send the item directly to me and I’ll forward it to my favorite recipient.  You can count on my everlasting appreciation.

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