Hate gift guides? Here’s an alternative to all those that insult you with dull ideasThe gift guides are out again! Regular readers will know how infuriated I am by those Christmas gift guides. Pages and pages of newsprint,all given over to the advice that we should consider buying our relatives a pair of socks or a bottle of wine.
Adding insult to insult, they invariably divide these “ideas” into relatives (“A lipstick for your wife! A book for your mum! A bottle of wine for Grandpa!”) just to develop certain that nobody shops beyond the boundaries of age and gender stereotype. Not only must we buy the same customary stuff every year, or we must develop the same customary assumptions. Women love clothes. Kids love sweets. Men love golf calendars.
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Source: guardian.co.uk