If you’re having a hard time buying gifts–for a man–I have a formula for you. And some suggestions. Because we engineers hate solving problems once when we can come up with a system to solve it forever.
How to buy gifts–for MEN who are a pain to shop for. A formula–with examples.
People hate buying ME gifts because, when I see something i like that’s not too expensive, I often just buy it for myself.
So, for a good gift, there has to be a REASON why i didn’t buy it already.
There are 3 typical reasons for this.
- it was too expensive or hard to get to justify
- I didn’t know it existed
- I didn’t realize I would enjoy it as much as I actually would
The best gifts often cover multiple of these categories, AND DON”T HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE. There’s a trick for that.
Oh, and ladies: it’s not that we DON”T appreciate sentimental gifts when done right, but you CAN”T GO WRONG with something practical. Which includes really cool looking.
Let’s cover some examples. Imagine we’re buying a gift for Bob.
My favorite formula is to take something that’s normally cheap, and buy them an AMAZING QUALITY version of it, costing way more than they would ever THINK to spend on it, but not much on an absolute scale.
Let’s say Bob likes stout beer. He’s probably used to paying $2-5 a bottle.
You can go on beeradvocate.com and find world-class beers that you can buy elsewhere for $10-20 a bottle.
You could do the same for chocolate– like this highly rated bar of Belgian chocolate for only $5.69.
But it’s not just consumables.
Think about any item he uses every day. Or week.
I bought this World-class Japanese steel Nail clipper several years ago for around $25 dollars. It makes my life easier!
I’ve got more examples across every price range–videos coming soon!
Let’s pool our thinking here: what are the best examples of this technique that you’ve thought of? #gifts #giftideas #giftideasforhim
(The cube I’m holding at the start is called a CMY cube, link on my website)