Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Have you ever wondered why the rich and privileged care about, or even bother with, the gift bag? Because they don't need this stuff. If they wanted it, they could afford to buy it, without blinking. But they love the gift bag, beyond reason.
Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.
Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.
I'm Jewish, so I don't really do Christmas gifts, and Hanukkah is not as big a deal as gifts are concerned, so I never actually give gifts.
I was in a department store and I saw a weird-looking gadget. I asked the young saleslady what it was. She answered, "It doesn't do anything. It's just a Christmas gift."
I don't know who came up with this push present idea, but I think it's probably a female.
T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."
Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.
Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give.
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.
Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
I don't give any gifts to the rich.
I never give gifts!
I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.
It is universal to give gifts as an expression of love. My academic background is anthropology, the study of cultures. We have never discovered a culture where gift-giving is not an expression of love.
