How to stock up on gift items for unexpected use?
To stock up on gift items for unexpected use is a novel concept that allows you to face holiday seasons or emergency situations without losing your cool. Salting away some gifts and presents in a drawer or in a trunk under the bed may seem contrived to a modern house person but many times that very trunk or drawer helps you save face and come out tops in any situation. Here are some suggestions on how to buy and stock gifts for all reasons and all seasons.
Helpful hints
- First and foremost set aside a trunk or a drawer for keeping gifts that are bought for seemingly no purpose.
- Make sure that all things that you buy as gift items or items that you receive as gifts (which you do not require) are put away in this place.
- Ensure that you stick a note saying who gifted the gift to you; you do not want to give the gift back to the giver.
- Keep a notebook listing birthday and anniversary dates of people to whom you regularly give gifts; this list may also include details such as sizes or favorite colors etc.
- One more excellent idea is to keep a stock of inexpensive greeting cards for those occasions for which you do not have gifts. There are always some deals on in dollar stores where you could get cards for as little as two for a dollar as compared to the usual $3 or $4 apiece.
- Keep wrapping paper, tassels, tape, ribbons and gift tags handy within the box so as to avoid running to the store to get last minute wrapping material.
Do’s
- Keep a list of the items that you have purchased (an Excel spreadsheet is a good idea) so as to know what you have. This way you will never run the risk of buying the same type of things.
- Keep some general gifts along with personalized ones so as to be ready for any occasion.
Don’ts
- Don’t overdo the keeping ‘a well stocked treasure trunk bit’ or else you will have too many things that just pile up as junk because many things go out of fashion or items like lotions and creams outlive their shelf life.