I experienced a mad rush for Christmas presents over the weekend with a trip to Orchard Road.
I had to do some last minute Christmas presents shopping myself, along with the wifey. It's the annual Secret Santa initiative. This year, the budget per present is $20. true enough, we busted the $20 cap with today's spiralling prices of presents.
Every set of present we got, it's above $20. Ouch.
Wifey had a hard time determining what kind of gifts, or what range of presents she should get for each of her friend/ colleague. She didn't even have a vague idea when we began our Orchard Road presents hunting trip. She said, "Let's walk around Orchard Road, and get gift inspiration. Then we will know what to buy then."
For those who still believe in this saying, let me bust that one out as a myth for you right now. It is a total myth. You will not get gift inspirations by randomly walking around gift stores without having a plan, or having a vague gift idea to begin with. The hordes of shoppers and gift buyers, coupled with the never ending display of gift ideas will confuse you even further.
Even worse, seeing everyone else around you carrying bags of gifts, made us feel even lousier that we haven't even bought any gifts yet.
Initially, we wanted each gift to be unique, and represent the person whom we will be purchasing the gift for. We discussed about the gift recipient's unique personality, discern what kind of gifts that person might like, and so on...
We were gifting idealists.
Eventually, we got tired, and settled on the gift idea that "whatever, it will be an awesome gift as long as I have made the effort to come shop, pick out and wrap it".
We became gifting practicals.
We came, we conquered, we lost, we got tired, we bought gifts.
This sums up our shopping spree pretty much.
When we were younger, we could go on and on the entire day, just walking around, and doing window shopping. Now that we are older, presumably, all the walking and standing around browsing for gifts literally almost killed us. We have the moolah to spend, we just couldn't find the right gift to spend it on.
How we wish more people will use iWish - to pen down their gift idea and wish lists, so that it actually makes the gifter's job a lot easier, a lot simpler, and a lot more fun!
People, gifters, gift recipients, everybody, I urge you go sign up for your free iWish account @ www.iwish.com.sg now and save everyone else the trouble and hassle in picking out gifts for you.
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