What to Buy Someone Who Has Everything: Gift Ideas That Actually Make Sense
Less is more if you allow it to be.
What do you buy someone who has everything? It’s one of those questions that comes up for many people every Christmas, birthday, anniversary and special occasion.
If you’re struggling to think of a gift for someone, there are actually compelling simple alternatives to spending hours searching (and more than likely stressing!) for something they may or may not like. So, what do you buy someone who has everything?
There are three obvious answers:
- Ask them what they would like…… insist on an answer if they expect you to pluck something from thin air.
- Do something together instead of buying a physical gift, and in turn create a memory for life.
- Or ask them to create a gift wish list so you have some guidance…on Shuppy of course!
None of these options are particularly revolutionary. Yet somehow, when a birthday or Christmas comes around, we often convince ourselves that we need to become mind readers. We don’t, and we shouldn’t.
If the purpose of giving a gift is to make someone happy, then surely the easiest way to achieve that is to find out what would actually make them happy.
Is asking someone what they want really ruining the surprise? I don’t think so. There seems to be a perception that a thoughtful gift has to be something the giver has independently discovered. But imagine this. Your partner has been secretly wanting something for months. You ask them what they would like for Christmas, they tell you, and you manage to get it. They’re delighted. You’re delighted because you know you’ve bought something they’ll genuinely use and enjoy.
Where exactly is the problem? The surprise doesn’t have to be “what” the gift is. The surprise can be when, and how they receive it. And that’s where a gift wish list can be particularly useful. Let them choose without spoiling the surprise
With Shuppy, someone can create a gift wish list and add as many things as they like. It could contain expensive items, inexpensive items, experiences, contributions or pretty much anything else they would appreciate. The people buying the gifts can then pledge their intention to give particular items. The recipient doesn’t have to know what has been pledged. Instead, they discover what they’ve actually been given when the occasion arrives.
So you get a rather useful combination of outcomes – The recipient gets something they actually want. The giver doesn’t have to guess. And the surprise remains intact.
Surely that makes more sense than spending hours trying to work out whether someone would prefer the blue one or the black one, whether they’ve already bought it themselves, or whether they’ll smile politely when they open it.
