Gifting Better
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Gifting has lost the plot a little bit lately. Instead of feeling generous and joyful, gifting during the holidays can feel like a chore. We're exploring what's changed and how we can gift better. Plus, how to make managing wish lists less onerous and a few little luxuries we're recommending.
For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we each share something we're doing differently when it comes to gift-giving this year.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Erica and I'm Kelsey. In every episode, we bring our different |
| 0:08.8 | perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started this |
| 0:14.0 | show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk |
| 0:18.0 | and laugh about yet. Today's episode is titled Gifting Better because |
| 0:22.9 | we both have felt that gift giving has lost the plot a bit. So this holiday season, we wanted to chat |
| 0:28.8 | about what we think has contributed to that feeling, how to make gift giving meaningful again, |
| 0:34.4 | and share some ideas for managing everyone's wish lists and passing along ideas to extended family members. |
| 0:40.4 | At the end of the episode, instead of our usual laties, we'll be sharing a new segment called Little Luxuries with ideas to treat yourself or those you love this holiday season that are super simple and attainable. |
| 0:52.2 | For friends of the show over on Patreon, we're talking about |
| 0:55.1 | something different we're trying this year when it comes to gift giving. Okay, so you and I |
| 1:01.1 | started this conversation and then decided we wanted to save it for the podcast. So let's start |
| 1:05.7 | with this. Do you think online shopping has ruined gift giving? Is it something else? Like what feels off for you? |
| 1:13.7 | Oh, yes. I have just been thinking about this for the past few years. And I feel like we've started to have |
| 1:20.0 | conversations about it. So I do think it's kind of a multi-layered thing. I do think that online shopping and just the huge retailers like Amazon |
| 1:30.9 | that just have literally everything at a click that's at your door tomorrow. Right. Just, yeah, |
| 1:40.1 | takes, can really take the magic out of gift giving because if if everyone and I know not everyone |
| 1:47.2 | but it does seem like so many people are just buying things all the time what they need as they |
| 1:53.2 | need it then it's not really as exciting or magical or feel as generous to give someone something |
| 2:00.2 | because it just kind of feels like people |
| 2:01.7 | are getting all the time. So I think it's the consumption is up in general. So it's the accessibility |
| 2:07.2 | of stuff. Whereas before it would be like, oh, to get you like that particular sweater or game |
| 2:15.1 | or jewelry, you might have to go to a specific store that someone wouldn't be at |
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