ALTERNATIVE GIFTS
A thought spark for you ... on how to live more simply in todays uncertain times.
Gifts ...Instead of running down to M&S or Next or Boots to buy a present for someone's celebration such as birthday or wedding, why not give an "experience" instead? Take them for a walk...
write them a poem...
make them some food ...
personalise and "de-materialise" a gift...
Why not research their name...their star sign , their favourite colour , make a scrapbook of some of your adventures...etc. Find out their fave flowers , grow them 20 seedlings , make up a hanging baskets ...
Photos are so easy these days , ...so take an impromptu photo, AND print it AND frame it AND wrap it in a small verse about that day and/ or how much they mean to you. Will it be more valuable to them then a CD voucher ( I would like to think so )
Or maybe take a responsibility from their shoulders for a while , gift them baby sitting or school run offers, or how about pampering them by arranging a relaxation evening for them , setting a ambient room with scents and music and then read to them for a while.
Let your mind run free ... and DONT be embarrassed about being personal or affectionate.Love helps make this life liveable.
MEN are often harder to find suitable gifts for .. why not then give them gifts based on silence, freedom, appreciation, listening, love , affection , attention , food , sex , understanding.We all need time to ourselves at sometime, men especially need to "fire-watch" . Arrange a way of them having some time for themselves they are not usually able to take ALONE ! ... Dont take offence that they want to be solitary for a while!.
Gifts ...Instead of running down to M&S or Next or Boots to buy a present for someone's celebration such as birthday or wedding, why not give an "experience" instead? Take them for a walk...
write them a poem...
make them some food ...
personalise and "de-materialise" a gift...
Why not research their name...their star sign , their favourite colour , make a scrapbook of some of your adventures...etc. Find out their fave flowers , grow them 20 seedlings , make up a hanging baskets ...
Photos are so easy these days , ...so take an impromptu photo, AND print it AND frame it AND wrap it in a small verse about that day and/ or how much they mean to you. Will it be more valuable to them then a CD voucher ( I would like to think so )
Or maybe take a responsibility from their shoulders for a while , gift them baby sitting or school run offers, or how about pampering them by arranging a relaxation evening for them , setting a ambient room with scents and music and then read to them for a while.
Let your mind run free ... and DONT be embarrassed about being personal or affectionate.Love helps make this life liveable.
MEN are often harder to find suitable gifts for .. why not then give them gifts based on silence, freedom, appreciation, listening, love , affection , attention , food , sex , understanding.We all need time to ourselves at sometime, men especially need to "fire-watch" . Arrange a way of them having some time for themselves they are not usually able to take ALONE ! ... Dont take offence that they want to be solitary for a while!.
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