Throughout the year, we repeatedly celebrate various holidays, while presenting various gifts to our loved ones. It would seem that it could be easier to choose and give a gift. But in reality, everything is far from simple. As soon as the next "significant" date approaches, so we are not let go by a single thought about what to present to a friend. The choice is huge, and getting on something specific is not always easy. Sometimes, in order not to be tormented by unnecessary questions on the topic: what to give to a friend, we resort to the simplest way - to ask him what he would like to receive as a gift or decide that there’s no need to rack his brains, I’ll go and give money, and he himself will buy what he sees fit.
If your friend is really close to you, then get off with a banal excuse that I don’t know what to give, so I don’t give money, it’s not worth it. Communicating with a person close enough is difficult not to know what your friend’s tastes are, what are the priorities and interests in life. Therefore, before answering the question of what to give to a friend, it is worth thinking about what he likes and what can really be useful to him? The gift is designed to bring joy, give pleasure, so it must be not only necessary and useful, from your point of view, but also desired for your friend.
Only after this it is worth moving on to projecting a possible gift option to your financial capabilities. Alternatively, you can give an inflatable chair, a soccer ball or a gift certificate if they coincide with the interests of the person to whom they are intended. Of course, if you want to play a trick on a friend, you can give an inflatable chair at the same time as a congratulation, give a soccer ball with a different semantic load: either if your friend is an avid football player, or as an incentive to engage in an active sport. Everything is purely individual and is determined by how trusting you and the birthday person have. It is important that the semantic load embedded in the presented gift is interpreted correctly and does not embarrass either you or the person to whom the gift is intended.
Speaking more specifically, the gift, in addition to the above, is affected by the age of the birthday man, his social status, financial capabilities. If your friend, just like you, is still a child, then everything is simple - in childhood, as a rule, gifts for friends are financed by parents, so you have to proceed from what is possible to buy, but you should not buy a trinket, which will be abandoned and forgotten or re-donated to someone else. There are a lot of things that can become a worthy and interesting gift, ranging from books, if your friend likes to read, and ending with computer games.
A gift for a teenager must necessarily be in demand. At this age, as a rule, a certain attitude towards a lot has already been formed and it will not be difficult for you to present exactly what is interesting for a particular young person directly today. You should not proceed when choosing a gift from the memories of what your friend liked about five years ago. Remember that years go by, views on things change, and with them priorities. Therefore, one should proceed from the real situation and current interests.
A young man who is quite firmly on his feet and has almost everything that is possible, as a rule, does not give expensive gifts, since it is almost impossible to surprise him with the amount of a gift, but serious damage can be done to your budget. Your friend does not require sacrifices from you, so it is quite possible for him to present some small but memorable souvenir. Even a fountain pen can act as a gift, which will be with him and remind you and your gift for quite a long time.
Therefore, when deciding what to present to a friend, it is worth starting from your capabilities, as well as the needs and interests of the addressee to whom the gift is intended.