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Do you hate to go gift shopping? For you there's nothing worse than going from store-to-store hoping to find a suitable gift. After only a few shops, your eyes glaze over. So you buy the first trinket you see, just to have a gift.

If this describes you, take 10 minutes to discover a really great gift idea?

Because, who has time to shop? I mean really, if you're not working, you're busy with your family, or if you're not with your family, you're trying to get more important things done.

Add the price of gas to time spent dragging in and out of stores, and gift shopping becomes a tiring, time wasting, economic decision.

Besides, it's tough just figuring out the right gift for the right person.

For example, someone may think it cute to gift a newly wed conservative couple with matching his and hers thong underwear. It may be cute.  But it's probably not appropriate.

Or, what to get the person who seems to have everything? According to some, the answer is NOTHING.

There are many reasons to give gifts. One is a simple token of affection. No matter how much stuff someone has, your gift says you care.

Some people enjoy shopping. Going to the mall gives them warm sensual feelings, very much like having sex.

For others, shopping is like having a root canal. They dread taking hours and hours to find the “perfect” gift.

Men and Women Shop Different

It shouldn't surprise anyone that researchers at the Wharton School recently discovered that men and women react differently to the retail shopping experience.  According to the study:

• women generally enjoy the entire outing. They thrive on personal interaction with sales associates.
• Men want to park close to the store, locate the item they need, and get the heck out of there as quickly as possible.
• Women tend to be more comfortable than men giving gifts to family and friends not related to a special occasion.
• Men like to buy gifts for loved ones especially for special occasions. But they're not sure their gift will be valued by the receiver.
• Women are more apt than men to give a gift to a friend.
• Men have less need for personal gifts than women, particularly for birthdays and anniversaries.
• Women make more meaning of the gifts they receive than men.
• Men appreciate of a wider range of gifts than women.
• Both worry the receiver of their gift won't like it.

Quick!  How many gifts have you received you didn't like, or couldn't use, or was thoughtless, or inappropriate, or even tasteless.

These tongue and cheek gift ideas, may give you a chuckle:

• Cultivate a Friend Who Is a Shopping Fool: Maybe you already know someone who loves to shop. Ask them to buy a gift or two for you while they"re out.

• Shop for Gifts Year Round:  Okay, so you hate to shop. But all of us have to enter a store some time. Since you're in the store, anyway, even if it is the supermarket, keep your eyes open for a gift! You don't have to know who will be the proud owner. Might as well pick it up now, and save yourself a hassle.

• Have a Spot to Stash Gifts: Have a place at home to stash gifts. That way you will be able to run to this spot, and paw through your stash in a hurry when that wedding invitation arrives in the mail.

• Use Re-Gifting: Add to your gift stash all the presents people give you that you hate. Just remember who gave what you the gift and send it on to a new family or group. Make a list or label gifts in some way so they don't return to the same person or to another person when the original "gift-giver" is present.

• Buy Gifts Online or from Catalogs: This is so obvious it had to go at the end of the list!

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