Are you an impulse buyer? I have very hard time choosing what to buy. Besides, I feel like I have most of the things a man should have.<p>Is there a way or method you use to decide how to buy gifts?
My group of acquaintance agree not to exchange gifts, we take turns buying beers when we get together.<p>After my being embarrassed in the first year of my marriage by an expensive gift from a poor member of the extended family, I suggested to my wife that she and her sister in-law pull names out of a hat, where one family member buys one thing for one other member. It's common knowledge I really like business socks and a casual shirt. I often get the black sheep of the family, who looks forward to his bottle of bourbon, I'm told he makes it last several months.<p>For close family, we decide on a more expensive 'family present' which might be a new TV or a holiday, usually a road trip. One year it was to replace the broken air-conditioner.<p>I encourage my kids to buy experiences, not 'stuff'. I still get nice hand drawn gift cards with socks or joke T-shirts.<p>My wife is the fussiest person in town so I ask her what she would like, and she knows my favourite gift is the smile on her face when I give it to her.
i don,t buy anything, as a practicing freegan, with few exceptions.<p>for gifts, i either craft them by hand, or i find something which makes me think of a person in my life, and then i gift it to them.