What to give a friend for the New Year?

A friend is a close person, sometimes almost a native, and therefore the question of choosing a gift for her on magical New Year's holidays becomes quite relevant, because I want to please and surprise my friend, and make her a present that will be useful for her in everyday life. About whether it is possible to combine all this, and what gifts are acceptable for friends, will be discussed in this article.

Girlfriends are people we usually know quite well. We know their habits and preferences, tastes and addictions, hobbies and credo. It’s hard for a girlfriend to pick up an inappropriate and indecent gift, given that a lot is known about a person, but for some it turns out. So there was a list of New Year's presents that should never be presented to friends under any circumstances, of course, if you do not want to offend a person and ruin your relationship with him.

Primarily, exclude gifts that may directly or indirectly indicate your girlfriend’s flaws - floor scales, a book on dietetic nutrition, dragging underwear. Such gifts, even if a woman would like to have them, are offensive. If you really want to give your girlfriend corrective underwear or tights, it is better to present a gift certificate to the linen store, where the line of such products is widely represented.

For these same reasons, you should not take responsibility for the choice of hair dye, perfume or decorative cosmetics, because in these matters the tastes of even very close friends can differ, and significantly.

New Year is a very symbolic holiday, and therefore you should refrain from gifts such as towels and scarves. There will be little joy from such presentations, besides, it is considered inappropriate to give personal items to people outside your family circle.

Even if you pick up with great love for a girlfriend basket with shampoos, shower gels, soap and scrubs, you can’t bring her much joy. Such gifts are appropriate from the husband or mother, but in the performance of friends they unwittingly hint at uncleanliness and scruffyness, which will bring the one who receives the gift, a lot of doubts and unpleasant thoughts.

If your girlfriend is a superstitious person and pays attention to signs, do not worry her donating handkerchiefs, watches and wallets. These gifts may be associated with the secret wish of tears, old age, and poverty. If a friend needs one of these gifts, it is better to present the monetary equivalent of the gift, let her buy a purse herself.

Definitely not worth giving a gift that a friend will not be in demand. For example, a lady who loves quiet evenings embroidering or watching TV, the certificate for a parachute jump is definitely not suitable, and a woman who is active and active, who prefers active leisure and sport, is not likely to use slippers or a set for a long, painstaking and painstaking creation of a picture from small beads.

It is not recommended to give girlfriends for the New Year:

• money - of course, everyone needs it, but the girlfriend will definitely not feel the joy of the gift and your warmth;
• clothes and shoes - you can miscalculate with color, size, model and then the gift will also not bring joy;
• animals - even if a person loves everything alive, it is not at all necessary that he can now afford to take responsibility for the pet, even if it is just a fish or a hamster;
• any items and things that are similar to your own - even if a friend admired your bag or your scarf for a long time, don’t give her the same or similar ones, she is unlikely to use them for the reason that you have the same ones;
• overly expensive gifts - even if you have such financial opportunities, it’s not a fact that a friend will be able to answer with an identical gift, and then you just put her in an awkward position.

When choosing a gift for a friend, be sure to consider several factors:

• age - you will get something small and pleasant, memorable for your teenage girlfriend; you can buy something more serious for a friend with whom you have been friends for several decades;
• hobbies and hobbies are, in general, the best idea, because it is always very pleasant to receive a gift that does not contradict hobbies, professional interests and promotes them;
• degree of closeness of relations - to your best friend, beloved and close in spirit and life, you can afford to give more personal, personalized gifts than presents for just a familiar and pleasant woman or girl.

If your friend is a big connoisseur of cool, unusual gifts and creative ideas, do not rush to disappoint her, try to make just such an interesting, funny, cool present that she will remember for a long time. Specialized gift shops help you with ideas. You can use our list.

• Backlit slippers - A great gift for lovers to walk around the house at night. Such slippers will become indispensable, if necessary in the dark, trying not to disturb anyone, get to the refrigerator. In them, the girlfriend does not stumble and does not step on small details from the children's designer.

• USB heated slippers - This is an option for girls and women who always complain about the cold. It is enough to connect slippers to a laptop or computer, and a warm pastime on long winter evenings is provided for a friend.

• Blanket with sleeves - the winter invention will be a pleasant present hinting at your great desire to share the warmth of your soul with your girlfriend. Such a blanket perfectly warms on a winter morning, when you need to get up for work or study, and you want to stay longer under a warm blanket.

• Beautiful warm heated scarf - there are such novelties today. Electric shock is completely excluded, since the voltage does not exceed 5V. In winter days, a friend can not only bask in such a scarf on the street, but also wear it indoors as a stole - the sizes allow.

• Pillow with your photo together - it should be small, compact in order to decorate the interior of the friend’s room. Such a present will always remind her of you, not only indirectly, but also directly.

• Original lamp - there is a huge number of various products designed in the New Year's theme: Christmas tree lights and snow-covered forest huts, you can choose a funny lamp in accordance with your girlfriend’s profession (for example, a night light globe for a geography teacher or a night light dropper for a medical friend) . Pay attention to the projectors.

• Original and unusual headphones. Of course, you can get by with the usual wireless ones, or you can choose winter options - headphones with fluffy heating earpads, in which even in cold weather a friend can enjoy her favorite music and not freeze.

• Auto communicator - A great gift for a girlfriend-motorist with a developed sense of humor. On it, she will be able to type any short messages for other participants in the movement, for example, “Thank you” or “Miss me”, as well as “Do not beep, stall” or “I am driving the first day”.

• Smart Socket - a useful thing that will never allow a friend to leave an iron or other electrical appliance in a hurry when turned on. The outlet is controlled using a smartphone, and at any time, a friend will be able to check whether she turned off the curling iron when leaving home, and also remotely turn on the kettle or multicooker, approaching the house.

• Certificate for visiting a fashion stylist - A great gift for friends who pay fashion and their own appearance is of great importance. A friend will be able to visit a real professional and get personal recommendations. It's priceless.

• Certificate for a double spa treatment. If a friend has a life partner, she may well spend a pleasant day with spa treatments with him, and if she is single, then you can go to the salon together. Impressions and positive emotions are guaranteed.

• Cinema, theater, concert tickets - presenting such a gift, be prepared that you will have to go with a girlfriend just because it is not at all a fact that she will find with whom to go there. In addition, it is important to know the tastes of a friend and in no case to give her a ticket to a Leps concert if she loves hip-hop, and not to send her to the premiere of a horror movie if she loves comedy and melodrama.

Even if the budget for a gift is not so large, you can be creative and give fun board game T-shirt with a humorous or simply touching inscription “The best friend in the world” or “I know how to make friends and love.” You can give a friend an inexpensive mug with your overall photo and a wish for great happiness.

When choosing a gift for a girlfriend, it is not so much the size of the budget for its purchase that matters, but how much your own approach to choosing, creative. You can always buy inexpensive symbolic gifts, souvenirs that will cheer you up and give your girlfriend a long memory of you. Here is just a sample list of what you can present:

• beautiful Christmas ball - factory or decorated with your own hands;
• Christmas garland with unusual luminous elements;
• a set of beautiful New Year's candles that can be lit and put on a festive night on the table;
• Christmas wreath composition with bells, balls, ribbons to decorate a table or front door;
• Christmas gift gingerbread;
• chocolate figures of New Year's characters;
• calendar for the coming year, on the topic corresponding to the interests of a friend.

Among the budget and pleasant, and most importantly, useful gifts include items that a friend can use in her daily life:

• desktop phone stand or car sticky pad so that the smartphone does not slip while driving from the car panel;
• nice cover for passport, student card, work permit, identity card, cover for documents in the car;
• unusual shape and design ballpoint pen - such a present is always useful;
• a keychain responding with a signal or whistle to pops, allowing you to quickly find where a friend put the keys to the car or apartment;
• pendant on the bag, made in an unusual style;
• small folding mirror with a comb;
• a compact cosmetic bag that will easily fit in her purse;
• set of brushes and sponges for applying makeup.

A business friend, as well as a business woman, will definitely appreciate a magnetic whiteboard. You can attach it to the refrigerator and leave notes on it for households or for yourself, so as not to forget something. If a friend loves to cook and often spoils you with new dishes and goodies, give a set of convenient and beautiful kitchen mitts, silicone baking mat or forms, a set of unusual jars for pepper, salt, cereals.

A handmade gift always evokes more emotions and a response in the soul of the person to whom it is intended. And it’s not at all necessary to be a handywoman, you can make simple gifts from improvised materials that will for many years remind your friend that she has you.

• DIY jewelry - a bracelet from large beads, beads, colored rubber bands, earrings from beautiful painted feathers, beads. It all depends on what style of clothing a friend adheres to, how old she is, and whether she can eventually wear your jewelry.

• Photo collage - if friendship has been several years, or even decades, with a tastefully made collage, your friend will remember the brightest moments of your friendship. Just pick up joint photos, photos from events, holidays, trips, picnics, weddings and births of children and make a great thematic collage about your friendship.

• Handmade soap - for soap making at home, special skills are not required, even children are usually easy to cope with the task, and therefore just look at a couple of lessons on the Internet and the original gift will be ready.

• Warm socks or slippers - here it is important not how smoothly you can make loops, if you haven’t knit before, but how you will arrange your gift. Choose bright woolen threads, make small cute pompons, and a great New Year's gift will surely please your girlfriend.

• Hair Band or Elastics - it all depends on the flight of fantasy. You can make jewelry using beads, decorate everything with ribbons or bows made of fabric, make leather decoration, make a hairpin or bezel from velvet - the finished product should be neat and appropriate to the style of your girlfriend.

• Homemade little postcard - from colored cardboard, corrugated, tissue paper or any other elegant paper, you can make real New Year's masterpieces, the main thing is that no one else around the world will have exactly the same postcard on this day. Use cute images - bears, kittens, bullfinches, do not forget to definitely sign your creation with the wishes of happiness and all the best. You can arrange a New Year card in any style - applique, scrapbooking, quilling.

• Sweater on her favorite cup - It fits quite simply and you can find a lot of such ideas. There are sweaters with a neck and sleeves, and there are scarves; the main thing is that they fit a glass or cup in size and sit well on them.

• Trinket from wood, fabric, plaster.

• Fridge Magnets - You can use the special kit, which is sold in stores for creativity and needlework. It is enough to do everything according to the instructions and excellent original magnets will decorate your girlfriend’s refrigerator (you can make a thematic set, for example, magnets-vegetables or magnets-kittens).

Among the traditional gifts should include sweet sets, a grocery basket in which you put a bottle of champagne, sausage, chocolate, and some of the delicacies. As in the case of other gifts, do not forget about the need to beautifully pack and present such a set. Also, the following options are considered universal traditional gifts for girlfriends for the New Year.

• Books - if you know which author your girlfriend adores, you can buy specific works, but it’s better to give her the opportunity to choose an interesting book that she will read with pleasure. Present a gift certificate to a large book network with a large selection of books of different genres and authors.

• Creator's Kit - everything will depend on what the one for whom the gift is intended to be interested in. Typically, friends are familiar with each other's hobbies. If a friend embroiders paintings, present a set to create a beautiful home-made masterpiece, if she creates ceramic pots, you can present a potter's wheel and a supply of clay. In general, supplies for creativity - a win-win option to make a good present.

• Certificate for perfume and cosmetics shop - A welcome gift for any woman, regardless of age, profession or hobby. The only thing you need to pay attention to is the presence in the store of a line of cosmetics for teenagers, if the gift is intended for a friend of this age category.

• Gift set of a cute teapot and a pair of cute cups - It is better if the set is designed in the New Year theme. You can add a favorite type of tea or coffee to your set.

• Accessories for computer, gadgets - this includes a variety of flash cards made in the form of funny animals, little men, with symbols, mouse pads, wireless computer mice, a USB powered desktop fan, a USB heated mug so that tea or coffee stays warm longer and your relationship with a friend.

Gift etiquette does not prohibit you from directly asking your friend what she would like to receive for the New Year, but in this case the feeling of surprise will disappear, namely it is the anticipation of unknown interesting gifts that creates that magical atmosphere of the New Year miracle.

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