ALT-1 Gift Ideas for any Occasion
There is those times when there are those one or two people on Christmas who you are rather unsure what to get, or even worse a birthday, even of someone close to you. There are just those times that you're completely sure.Something that you can always solidly bet on is tickets to anything at all. Concert tickets, movie tickets, play tickets. Going with this, paying for a class in something the person is interested in, or that is just generally a compelling endeavor is also a good consideration. You can pay for perhaps a hang-gliding, scuba diving, or snowboarding excursion. Giving someone a lesson or an experience is something that can potentially last them a life-time, and in that sense is worse a lot more than some simple material object.A classic gift for someone who lives an event filled, interesting or just long life is a photo book. You can be a cheapo and get a scrapbook or something to that effect and just stick a bunch of photos in it in some kind of mish-mashed silly collage thing, or put a little bit of extra effort and make someone an actual photo book. A good site to pull this off in is http://www.smilebooks.com/. The prices are exceptionally reasonable for what you're getting. Everything is on that good-smelling glossy paper to boot! Purchase of a photo album also gives you access to software that will let you really inject some personality into it. Throw some witty quotes on the bottom of all the pages.A good book will go a long way. Fiction books can be a tricky thing because peoples tastes vary so widely. Even though you may love Faulkner the person the gift is for may only dig Nicholas Sparx or something else as trite. Books can be a good substitute for a class or experience for those of us who don't have a lot of money to throw around.The common route is cash or gift-cards. If that isn't the most obvious cop-out there is then I don't know what is. At least gift cards create the illusion that you really thought about this idea, but cash...forget about it! I know we are all smarter than that and can think of something at least a little bit better than that. Take some of my ideas, and hopefully they will help you out or inspire you.
