Blog #129: Selecting Holiday Gifts That Benefit the Receiver
When it comes to selecting holiday gifts, it’s always the same mindset for the one who wants that gift: that it’s the most popular gift on the market because everybody is going to have that same gift for the holidays. They just look at an advertisement on television or on the internet and they see the gift being more than anything else that is out there for holiday gifts.
We then give that gift to the one who wanted that gift, and they end up being benefited less. It’s not what they thought it was and you end up returning it, getting back money that went into buying that hot gift.
This is a very common myth amongst the holidays this time of year. Companies will go all out on promoting specific items that can make the biggest profit. However, the thing I view as a neurodiverse adult, is that sometimes the gift we all want desperately ends up being valued less than what we wanted it to be.
Unfortunately, this is a major problem that I see a lot of in today’s society. The fact is that neurodiverse minds are easily manipulated by commercial advertising when in reality, they really don’t need that hot gift.
Take what I mentioned in my “Black Friday” blog a while back, if you will. That people will fight and claw their way to a specific item that is being sold at a discount. Then whoever wanted that item that was being sold at a discount ends up not being the one that they wanted, because it doesn’t value them. Yes, it’s true you are building profits for the merchants that are selling the item, but then they end up giving those profits back when the customer’s relation doesn’t want that item anymore.
So, in a sense, both sides end up losing out on the prize.
Selecting the right gift for the holidays is just like selecting the right college or the right car…you need to benefit from it in the long run and get something out of it. Believe me, I have had plenty of gifts that ended up not benefiting me in the long run and have had to suffer the consequences as a result.
Then there is the issue of buying gifts for multiple people. Take my mom’s family, for example, who all live mostly in Florida. Many of her siblings don’t have a lot of money and all she sends down to them are clothes and maybe a toy here and there for my younger cousins.
The stress of going through that can often be too much for her to take in because on top of that, she also makes calendars for people containing pictures of them from the past year. In a way, some people are just hard to buy gifts for during the holidays, so if you have that someone who is difficult to buy for, it’s best to just walk away from them in a gift-giving sense.
Of course, you’ll still love them, but there are people who are more deserving than others are.
A helpful tip is if you are looking to do gift giving for the first time, it also helps to do just a secret Santa for one person or loved one. That way, you can just focus on one friend or loved one and not have to worry about multiple people.
In conclusion, there is an entire special of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” that aired three years ago that was all about gift giving. It was called “Best Gift Ever” and a lot of what is in the episode ultimately ended up driving home a strong message that many people fail to realize nowadays:
Catch you all later!!
