Gift Giving

As a child, my parents and my grandparents used to like to make holidays a magical occasion. They would do lots of things, like take us in a limo ride on St. Patrick’s Day, or going to the cabin for Memorial Day and Labor Day, or hiding Easter eggs and Easter baskets. Christmas time in particular was always fun, the seasons are finally changing and it’s snowing, you just got off thanksgiving break and have all of December to look forward to Christmas. If we take a look at Christmas in particular, it gets better still: there are extra gifts all around, it’s a day of complete lounging around and relaxation, there’s good food, you get tons of new stuff, and it’s at the beginning of break. But honestly as a kid you tend to miss a lot of that. Christmas is still best but it’s a lot more about presents and the break. As a kid, I kind of grouped my presents into two categories, toys and clothes. Toys were exciting, clothes were boring. Basically, if something wasn’t a piece of clothing, it was in the toy category. This was a pretty good system because about half of my gifts were toys and the other half were clothes. This grouping actually still works quite well even now, with the key difference that I enjoy the clothes much more now. One other thing that is a little different now as opposed to when I was a kid is that I’m much more integral in the picking out the gift I give to others part, and it disappoints me a little. I think it’s really hard to give people gift in the clothes category if you are a guy. It takes a somewhat good knowledge of a person to know some clothes they want, and an even better one to know their size. This is doubly true if he is giving that gift to a girl. So that immediately takes out half of the gifts someone can give. I think this is why jewelry was created: so men could give girly gifts to women.

So Scott Thought.