1. Name Tags – Instead of using name tags, use the front cover from leftover Christmas or other holidays. Just cut along the crease and glue or tape the card to the top of your wrapped package. Most designs have some unprinted space to allow you to write the name of the recipient and a short note.
2. Decoration – Instead of using ribbons and bows, make the decoration part of the gift. Tie a bunch of cinnamon stick on top with ribbon. Tie your package with satin or velvet ribbon and let the ends of the ribbon flow down the package. Add a silk flower inserted in the knot of the bow. If your recipient likes to cook, tie wooden kitchen utensils in the bow. Your ribbon or wrapping paper could be replaced with a decorative kitchen towel.
3. Festive boxes – For small items, buy small Chinese take out cartons, the ones that have a folded top and metal handle. Decorate the outside with brightly colored stickers of hearts, flower, or Christmas themes. Write the recipients name on the top flaps.
4. Original Wrapping Paper – At the craft store, buy sponges that have been cut into shapes of flowers, sailboats, etc. Dip them in paint and press them onto plain white wrapping paper or Kraft colored paper. Your decoration can fit the gift or the recipients taste.
5. Trimmings – Instead of using bows on every package, buy ornaments or small toys when they are on sale. Use these items that best fit your recipient’s hobby or lifestyle and tie or glue them onto your package.
6. Name Sacks – Sew up some red, blue, yellow, and green velvet squares into sacks. Turn down the top edge, sew in place to allow a small opening for a drawstring. Write the recipients name on the bag with glue and sprinkle the glue with glitter. Fill the sacks with candy or small toys. Use more string to wrap around the package and through the drawstring to secure the sacks.

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Men, this is the most popular gift, almost every female we talked to (if not every female) suggested this. Put together a “Relaxation Basket” for her. Include things like bubble bath, a bath pillow (waterproof pillow for the bathtub), candles, body lotion, a CD of relaxing music (some stores sell music specifically for creating different moods), a good book and gift certificates for professional massages, manicures, facials and pedicures. Every woman is unique, add your own ideas, maybe you know of some other things your wife or girlfriend uses to relax: like chocolate, or a good movie. Wrap all of these together in a basket or fancy box, it is a wonderful way to show that you care and understand that her life can be so stressful! By the way, this a great gift idea to get any woman…your mother especially!

Dinner for Two, On You

Make a homemade coupon for a romantic dinner for two at her favorite restaurant. Be sure to treat her like a lady all night: open doors, compliment her, open her car door first, bring a rose when you pick her up.

Books

If you’re not sure what she likes to read, buy her something off the best-sellers list, or ask the employees at the bookstore what they recommend.

Candles and a Candle Holder

All but one of the women we spoke with suggested a really nice scented candle and candle holder. A nice candle will cost about $6-10 and the candle holder varies in price depending on your taste. Choose a candle with a really yummy scent, and we guarantee you can’t go wrong with this!

Christmas Tree

If you will be spending Christmas together in a hotel or cabin, surprise her by calling ahead of time and arranging to have a Christmas tree in the room, and secretly pack tree lights and decorations. When you arrive you can decorate the tree together. It just wouldn’t be Christmas without a tree.

Bath Time Accessories

Does she enjoy taking baths? Why not get her some scented soaps, bubble baths, candles and a body sponge? You can put everything together in a basket, wrap it in cellophane or paper and tie it with a bow.

Personalized Calendar

Make a personalized calender for her. Fill each month with your own pictures, make special calender dates stand out (her birthday, your anniversary, the anniversary of the day you met, etc), you can even make up your own special days like a weekend getaway and a day to devote to her, and only her.

Gift Certificates for Weekends Away

The husband of one of our friends gives his wife homemade gift certificates for nights or weekends at ‘Bed and Breakfasts’. She loves B&B’s, so he takes her there when she needs a weekend to relax.

Scrapbook of Memories

Put together a “Scapbook of Memories”. This takes a lot of work, so I suggest starting early. Collect things like movie stubs from movies you’ve taken her to, pictures, postcards from your vacation spots, little poems, type out the words to “your song”, loveletters you’ve sent her or she’s sent you, emails, something from the beginning of your relationship, anything that has a special memory behind it. Nicely arrange everything you gather in a photo album. Include an introduction page, with a little message for her and the date.

Sentimental Painting

Last year one woman’s husband found a painting of the place where they had their first kiss, he had it framed and gave it to her for Christmas. It had a lot of sentimental value to both of them…what a great idea! If you can’t find a painting, take a picture and have an artist paint it for you…or just frame the picture.

A Journal

If she likes to write, get her an elegant journal.

Engraved Jewlery

Buy a keychain, braclet or necklace pendant, and have it engraved. The engraving could be: “_______ loves ______”, “I love you”, or something meaningful between yourselves. What a great reminder of your love that will be with her all day.

Personalized Love Story

Write her a lovestory with you two as the main characters…then have it bound and made into a simple book.

Subscription to her Favorite Magazine

She would probably love a subscription of her favorite magazine.

Photo Collage

Buy one of those large picture frames that has smaller spaces for a collection of pictures. Then gather a bunch of your nicest pictures together, and arrange them in the frame. You could even take this one step farther and get a personal engraving on the bottom of the frame.

Homemade Christmas Stocking

Buy some material and sew her a stocking, then fill it with small, individually wrapped presents.

Personalized Stationary

If you are in a long distance relationship and write letters to each other, why not have some personalized stationary made for her (note paper, envelopes). Include some stamps and a writing pen.

Collector’s Item

Does she have a special collection, like miniature teapots, or antique clocks? Get her something to add to her collection. Search around at flea market and yard sales, the more unique the better.

Dance Lessons

Sign up for dance lessons together (has she ever said “I’de love to learn how to ballroom dance” or “I wish I knew how to do such and such a dance”?). Women like when the men they are with want to spend time with them, and this is a way of ensuring that you will be spending time with her every week.

Christmas Tree Ornament

How about a Christmas tree ornament to celebrate your relationship. You can get some for marriage and others with little figurine couples on them and the year.

Men Have Their Favorites, Too

When it comes to gifts, men have their favorites, too. But if it were your task to choose one gift for the boss, you’d be stumped for ideas. You’d want something he would be eternally grateful for, something that would earn remarks like: “Oh great! This is just the very thing I needed!” Well, your golf gifts or pocket watch accessories could elicit this response.

But men are not sentimental or mawkish when it comes to gifts. As long as they can use it, the gift is perfect. But for all you know, men have their favorite gifts such as:

• power tools;
• DIY kits;
• a relaxing massage at the spa complete with a hot bath;
• superb home cooked meals;
• a ticket to the ballgames;
• video games;
• something he can show off.

The moment a motorhead gets a tool set, you can expect him to start tinkering with his motorcycle. Or, if a voracious reader gets the book he likes, he’ll be leafing through it in no time. Gifts like watches, pocket watch accessories, wallets, and label makers are valued by men who love gizmos and fashionable knickknacks. As always, the gifts should be carefully selected to cater to personality and interests.

What Not to Give Men

Just watching the males in the family can clue you in to the gifts they love to hate. If you’ve been giving your brother the same pair of socks for Christmas or his birthday, expect the gifts piling up somewhere. Perhaps you’ve also seen those unused bottles of scents and unused T-shirts because these were either too small or too large.

Don’t give men gift certificates if they’re the type who forget where they placed their reading glasses or haven’t the time to shop; the gift certificates may be forgotten or misplaced.

Don’t give a man a poem, scrap books, pink sweaters, and tickets to piano recitals unless he likes the stuff. You might also think that just because you love Britney Spears he’ll go crazy over Spear’s latest CD. His taste will differ from yours, so be careful when deciding on a gourmet basket.

Gifts to Pamper the Man You Love

For the man you love, it is easier to drum up gift ideas. You know his fashion sense, his sports, his favorite TV shows, and movies. To appeal to his fashion sense, give him a pocket watch and pocket watch accessories and those stunning personalized cufflinks. For the love of his game, you can always give a poker set, golf accessories, or that NFL barware.

Gifts that show you care about their health and well-being are blockbusters when it comes to gifts for men. A heart exercise video for the physically inactive can start him on a healthier lifestyle. These are just subtle reminders that he has to take care of himself, too.

Gifts for your man will always vary according to his shifting interests. Give him what he needs to look and feel better and to keep himself occupied. He’ll love everything you give him, fro pocket watch accessories to cool leather gadgets.

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• An iPod or a nice shirt that a girl who is attracted to me wants me to wear. – (Wei, 18)
• The perfect gift for me from a girl would be a nice dinner followed by a movie on the couch. Just relaxing with her all night. – (Fernando, 17)
• A new helmet for my snowboard competitons. – (anonymous)
• Whatever it is, I want it electronic and shiney, with lots of buttons and lights. – (Todd, 25)
• A toolbox filled with tools and some pots for cooking. – (anonymous)
• Anything from the Filson catalog. My girlfriend gave me a Filson coat two years ago and presented it to me by wearing it over lingerie I’d gotten her a year before. I can’t smell her perfume on the collar anymore but every time I put it on I think of that morning. – (Kevin, 26)
• Tools always come in handy. Any ‘home-entertainment’ electronic stuff, movies, music, a good book, a cool shirt, tasty expensive snacks, homemade lasagna. Homemade Christmas cookies (with frosting), back rub. – (Ken, 31)
• What I would most love to have for Christmas is a couple of new suits. I love to dress up and show off the love of my life. My favorite color of suit is blue. My second favorite color is grey. – (Abraham, 39)
• For a girl to cook me a totally made from scratch meal. Including candle light, flowers (or a small gift), and surprise me with all of that. None of my previous girlfriends could even cook. – (Artur, 20)
• Nice book – (anonymous)
• I would love a family picture of my wife, and two children. Maybe an outdoor setting, not just a studio picture. Something I can put in my office or up in our house. – (Brian, 35)
• A talking doll that on my command says things like, “wow, you’re neat”, “I love you whatever you do”, “You’ve got what it takes”, “Man you turn me on”. – (Aaron, 40)
• All I want for Christmas is a good flashlight. One that is dependable enough to keep the light shining for the protection of my wife and kids and is able to last through those long power outages due to summer thunderstorms or hurricanes. – (Joe, 26)
• A good book on love and romance. – (anonymous)
• A romantic holiday for two, near the beach. No mobile phones or other distractions. Just the two of us together. – (Harry, 24)
• One of the greatest things I could get from a woman would be a few rolls of film from her, with a note stating the conditions for the use of the film: “We must be in every picture…” This says that she likes spending time with you, and will make evenings out much more interesting. It also allows you to be more creative with the places you decide to visit. – (Isaac, 20)
• Guys like cologne, and most of the time it smells good to us. Plus if you pick it out we don’t have to worry about you not liking it. – (Mike)
• I simply want my wife to say to me “I love you”. I have NEVER been unfaithful to her. But for nearly a year she hasn’t been able to say “I love you” to me. So it is a strange Christmas wish but if there is a Santa out there maybe my wish will come true. – (Bill, 38)
• For Christmas I want: a full body massage with scented oils, a candlelit dinner with wine and preferably chicken or steak as the main course, followed by a sweet dessert. – (Jeff, 33)
• For my Christmas present I would like to be with my girlfriend Beccie. I would rent a few movies and cook her a nice candle light dinner. Then I would put on some good music and massage her back, shoulders and neck using a light almond oil with a romantic fragrance added. And then take a hot, relaxing bath together. This might sound like a present for her but I would rather make her happy than anything. – (Matt, 18)