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Want the Secret for How to Pick Gifts for Men and Women Who Have Everything?
They’ve got that. They’ve got that. They’ve got that. What could they possibly need? For me it’s my parents, my grandparents and my boss. I want to buy them presents for Christmas or their birthdays, but I have a hard time finding something that they could possibly want. After all, they make more money than … Continue reading
Don’t Want Your Gift Returned? Don’t get this.
No one wants their gift returned. I mean, you have to be realistic, your gift might not become their favorite thing in the world. But if your gift is returned you’ve done worse than just getting them a gift card. They have to find where the gift came from, get credit or cash from the … Continue reading
Short version – Giving Is Like ‘Chocolate, Sex and Money’
What now? We all know that it is better to give than to receive. But ‘Chocolate, Sex and Money’ better? That is the surprising result of a study done at UCLA that looked at the effects of social support on the giver. I’ll spare you the details (painful electric shocks) but it turns out that the person providing … Continue reading
Tis Better to Receive Than to Give
We all know the quote: “‘Tis Better to Receive Than to Give” Right?* That’s why every kid has a hard time going to sleep on Christmas eve and why we keep hoping to get an envelope from nana with a two dollar bill in it. But did you know that getting presents from people also … Continue reading
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It’s Not About the Benjamins
Quick, name one way to make a gift impressive. Quick, quick, quick! Unless I spoiled things with the title of this article you probably thought that spending more makes a gift more impressive. I would have thought so too, but we’d both be wrong. It turns out that when psychologists tested whether price was linked to … Continue reading