About Unique Gifts

Whether it's a birthday, Christmas, Hanukkah, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day or another gift-giving holiday, you'll be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't appreciate receiving a unique gift. Truly unique gifts are rare. If you're looking to give unique gifts to your loved ones, friends, work colleagues, clients and acquaintances, then read on to understand exactly what makes a gift special.

Significance
Unique gifts say something about the giver and the recipient. If you pick the first item off the shelf you see, you'll probably give the impression that you don't care whether or not you disappoint your gift recipient. Unique gifts suggest that you consider the recipient worthy of your time, efforts and consideration. They are a compliment to the gift recipient, implying the recipient is someone of discrimination who will appreciate the effort you've gone to.

Types
Homemade gifts, uncommon gifts, personalized gifts and creative gifts are all types of unique gifts.

Features
Misconceptions
Giving unique gifts doesn't have to take a lot of time. Instead of hunting down gifts during gift-giving season, buy gifts when the opportunity presents, such as when you're traveling or come upon a unique item in your regular shopping. Finding unique gifts also isn't difficult these days. Yes, everywhere you look you'll see "generic" products, gifts nobody would dream of calling unique. These are usually found at large retailers and produced for the mass market consumer. Look for smaller retailers, arts and crafts stores, novelty shops and specialized online stores for unique gifts. The Internet has made shopping for themed gifts remarkably easy. If the gift recipient likes baby elephants, for example, you'd be surprised by what a Web search will turn up.

Effects
Unique gifts not only surprise, delight and impress the recipients. They also make the recipient feel special, something that's hard to achieve in these days of mass production. If you find a gift that your recipient enjoys and yet has never seen, or maybe even imagined, you can be sure it will not be forgotten.

By Terri Rocker