The Online World Has the Present Ideas You've Been Looking For

I must admit…I'm a gift klutz.  No, I don't stumble and break things before giving.  My problem is that I have an impossible time deciding.  I'm just plain terrible at coming up with original gift ideas.  My solution, as you may have guessed by this time, is the Internet.

The web has plenty of both traditional and non-traditional present ideas  Now I realize that everyone is out to make a buck, but that doesn't bother me in the least.  I'd actually be willing to pay someone just to make the decision for me, so why not buy their products if they can come up with good ideas.  I'm an American, and we think of that as patriotism.

Where else except the Internet could I have learned that I could get my mother a New York cheesecake in place of the tin of cookies I sent year after year?  Fortunately, I can stretch this one idea out for many years simply by changing the flavor of cheesecake from one birthday to the next.

My daughter, who apparently gets her creative gift giving skills from me, found a jewelry idea for her aunt.  It worked out beautifully for her but it raised the bar to a higher standard for me.

You can find gift ideas by searching for age groups, say teenagers (with whom I most the most trouble) and children.  You can also use a search engine to find articles recommending gifts of all the gift giving occasions from Bat Mitzvahs or Easter, birthdays to graduations, or even those holidays when nobody seems to really know the origin, such as Sweetest Day or St. Astor's day or Siamese kitten day.  You can even search by the category of the item that you want to give.  You might be inventive enough to know that you want to buy Cousin Martha a scarf, so you can check out which ones are most popular or unique or are the greenest.  You might know that you want to buy your neighbor some accessory for his newly restored 1957 Chevy convertible.  You can actually search for specific parts for that sort of thing.  The possibilities are mind boggling for me.

Indeed, there are entire website pages and sites created for gift klutzes just like me where people publish ideas.  It seems that they have so many ideas they can afford to give them away.  If you have any great gift ideas, please put them online so that I can find them or you could just send the item directly to me and I'll forward it to my favorite recipient.  Thanks, in advance.