Money is a
fine gift for your favorite local charity. It is even of good character to drop
a few bucks into the collection plate on Sunday. However, to give the gift of
cash (even when it is disguised by an American Express logo) to someone with
whom you personally interact, is socially inept. You may as well crumple up a
fifty-dollar bill, slap it in her hand, and bark something to the effect of,
"Hey, go buy yourself something nice because you're not important enough
for me to do it myself."
Instead of
giving someone an open-ended gift, why don't you take just a few extra minutes,
and go that extra mile? The difference would be between giving a thoughtless
gift and giving one with character. Give a gift that she will remember, not one
that she will forget all about, as it becomes wedged between a credit card
receipt and a flattened pack of Wrigley's, in the confines of of a Louis
Vuitton.
Take, for
instance, a chocolate gift basket. You cannot go wrong with chocolate. Research
has shown that a moderate intake of dark chocolate has many positive health
benefits. Firstly, it has been clinically proven to reduce LDL cholesterol. It
can also reduce blood pressure in individuals with hypertension. You might even
be surprised to know that dark chocolate stimulates the production of
endorphins in the brain. (Just in case you nodded off the day Professor X
covered this in Intro to Psychology class, endorphins give off the feeling of
pleasure.)
Not only
does chocolate have healthy rewards, it speaks a million different phrases in
one universal language that everyone understands. It speaks in tongues, so to
speak. Chocolate says, "I love you." Chocolate says, "I'm
sorry." Chocolate says, "Congratulations." Chocolate says,
"Thank you." It speaks in magnitudes when presented in a gorgeous
arrangement like the chocolate gift baskets found at Amor Gift Baskets.
One of the
greatest things about this gift idea is that, with most gifts, you can only
give them one time, or else they will lose meaning. With a unique and
sophisticated chocolate gift basket, you can give repeatedly, and the recipient
will appreciate it just as much as the first time.