Your Gift-Giving Strategy

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Do you give only handmade or consumable gifts? Or do you follow the popular strategy of giving kids something they want, need, wear, read, and share? Listeners call in to share their gift-giving strategies.

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0:00.0	Brian Lairer on WNYC, and we're going to end today on the question, do you have a gift-giving
0:15.4	strategy for the holidays or a gift-giving philosophy for the holidays? 212-433 WNYC. Do you have a gift giving philosophy for the holidays.
0:21.3	212-433 WNYC.
0:24.6	Do you have either of those?
0:25.6	Do you have a general gift-giving strategy
0:27.6	when it comes to this holiday season?
0:30.1	Do you have a general gift-giving philosophy?
0:32.9	Share your strategies.
0:34.6	Share your philosophies.
0:36.1	212-433 W-NYC. Maybe it'll help some other listeners who
0:41.2	are scratching their heads thinking, what should I get this person? What should I get that person?
0:45.4	There are so many people I want to give some gifts to, but how do I go about figuring out the
0:50.1	right one for each person? Maybe you have a gift-giving strategy to share, or a gift-giving philosophy to share.
0:57.3	212-433, W-N-YC, 212, 433-9-6-9-2.
1:04.8	You can call or you can text.
1:06.2	Do you keep it simple, for example, with handmade or consumable gifts. Do you follow a set of rules like want, need,
1:16.4	wear, read? That's a method that's been quoted, self-explanatory, right? Everybody gets something
1:23.0	they want, something they need, something to wear, and something to read. Do you cap every gift
1:27.4	at a certain
1:28.3	dollar amount? Maybe you only buy local or buy secondhand or by experience-based gifts. Maybe
1:35.8	you give everyone the same signature item each year. 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433, 9692.
1:46.0	Your gift-giving strategies, or if you have a philosophy, you're gift-giving philosophies
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