Surprisingly simple tactic for finding the perfect gift
It's almost too late this year, but I'm going to give it a shot! Why didn't I think of this?
For each person on my list, I tried to write down five to ten words that describe them in some fashion. I’ll list the eight words I came up with for someone on my list: funny, board games, video games, quiet, smart, chemistry, outdoors, bicycle, camping.
I dropped that list of words into Google and read the first few pages of links.
Virtually every time, one of those pages pointed me straight to an idea I hadn’t even considered before as a gift – something that just worked perfectly for that person. It worked on the order of 90% of the time. The best part was that, once I had that gift idea in mind, I was often able to find that gift for an amount less than I expected to spend on them.
That's the gist of it, but there's more. Read the whole article at The Simple Dollar.
Are you going to try it?
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3 Responses to “Surprisingly simple tactic for finding the perfect gift”
December 16th, 2009 at 7:47 am
This is genius! (p.s. I just misspelled genius
I am going to do this right now for the person who didn’t give me a single gift hint all year, my brother. Thank you Kim.
December 16th, 2009 at 7:49 am
It’s like cooking with Google!
December 16th, 2009 at 11:00 am
What a fantastic idea!!!! I love it, and the concept of “cooking with google” – LOL! Thanks for this post and the comments!!!!
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