Tis the season of gift giving. For some of us, this is a really exciting time of year.

It's the time of year where we get to go to the mall and pick out thoughtful gifts for our loved

ones, sit on the couch and scroll and scroll and scroll on our favorite retail websites

until we find the perfect gifts for everyone on our list. And for some of us, this is a really

stressful time of year because gift giving is not our love language. I am one of those people. In fact, it's the lowest on my list of

love languages. So the holidays roll around for me and I'm like, ah, I don't want to do it. I don't know why.

Gift giving causes me a lot of anxiety because I want to get something for someone

that they're going to use. I really don't like wasting things. I also don't want them to like

open it and feel the pressure to like react a certain way in front of me. I don't like receiving gifts because

I don't really need anything and I don't want anything. And I don't want to react in the wrong

way and have them think that I didn't like their gift. Like everything about it makes me anxious

and nervous and uncomfortable. But it is an inevitable part of the holidays for most of us because most people expect

to receive gifts. So this year I decided to make a long, long list of ideas, not just for you,

but also for me, because I need help too. This does not come naturally to me.

This is not my love language. So this is a list of gift ideas that I genuinely think anyone,

almost anyone, would love. And almost anyone would use, because that's the thing about gifts.

Like, there's nothing worse

than a gift wasted, a gift that's just collecting dust in the receiver's closet. That's a shame for

everyone involved. So this list keeps that in mind. A lot of these gifts are genuinely useful

items that are just special enough to feel exciting under the Christmas tree

or under the in the living room of whatever holiday you celebrate.

You know?

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