sense of humour, and you have the latitude in your relationship to send a gag gift. If received at home, everyone would get a good laugh. If greeting cards or gifts like this are received at work red faces an awkwardness are the result.
There is also the age-inappropriate gift. This can make the receiver and the rest of the family feel awkward. Gifts of clothing can be really nice if you select the right thing. When your young niece opens her micro mini skirt and tube top set on Christmas morning she might even be happy. You might feel the laser beams shooting out of her parents’ eyes straight into your chest.
There are many varieties of the age-inappropriate gift. Weaponry can often go wrong for somebody who is still very young. Alcohol for somebody who is lower than the legal age is never a good idea, and you can even go wrong with gifts for older people. Even though grandpa may seem young for his age, buying him a skateboard might not work out well.
Sometimes there is nothing wrong at all with the gifts that you buy, it is simply this circumstances of the situation that are the problem. All jokes aside, you can make somebody feel bad when either you get them something for an occasion and they did get something for you or you have obviously purchased something much more expensive for much less expensive than they have. The idea behind gifts or greeting cards is to make somebody feel good; make sure that your gift giving does just this.
Louisa Mann is a fan and is a practitioner of random acts of kindness. For more information on how you can change your part of the world with an inspirational Wish Card, go to http://www.wishcard.us.
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