4 Tips for Effective Wishlist Making

4 Tips for Effective Wishlist Making

So you are using a wishlist to share with your friends and family - be it for X'mas, birthday or any other celebratory occasions! Quick question though… is your wishlist effective?

Here are four tips to help make your wishlist a little more effective in getting the perfect gift that you've always wanted:  

1.    I: Be specific – If you do not know what you really want yourself, it is much harder for others to gift you something. Thus, avoid stating vague things like "A Book", "A Watch" or "A phone". Instead, state the gift item explicitly like "Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince" or "Longines Hydroconquest Blue Dial Men's Watch". You'll be amazed as to what friends or family will gift you when you vaguely state "A Book"! Recalled a friend receiving a dictionary during a recent X'mas party when he simply stated "A Book" in his wishlist! Hope it was a prank! :P 

2.     II: Picture. Picture. Picture – can't emphasize more on the need for a picture of the item you want. As the adage goes, "A picture paints a thousand words"! With something visual, your friends & family will find it easier to show shops a reference point or distinguish amongst similar-looking items, when they head out to the stores to get you the desired gift.

3.    III: Additional Notes: It does not hurt to write a few more words to describe the item you want. The gift item you want might be very popular and chances are that it will run out of stock! For example, we noticed that the LEGO Starwars Storm-Trooper Keylight is always out of stock. As such, you could pen down a statement in the additional notes field like, "If Storm-trooper is unavailable, Darth Vadar or Yoda are fine too" – giving immediate alternatives for your gift 'buyers'.

4.     IV: Place: If you know where your gift item could be found or if you've seen it around in a particular shop, state the location. Your gift 'buyers' will thank you for it as they need not roam around scores and scores of shops to locate the gift item. Heard of a situation where some friends wanted to get a gift state in their dearest friend's wishlist. However, nobody knew where to get it. They went around to several shopping malls and could not locate the gift! In the end, they were so tired that they gave him vouchers instead – mismatched gift!

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