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Christmas Gifts & Why We Love Giving Them
By bingo-affiliates@mysportsbookonline.info

Few of us need presents, but life without them would, I think, be a rather greyer matter. The instinct to give, to express one's esteem, love, affection, seems to lie deep in the human psyche.

In the earliest societies the gods had to be placated with offerings. Later it was the turn of chiefs. In the poorest countries of the world people present each other with songs or flowers, little home-made bits and pieces, to indicate that they love them, think of them, admire them.

Most of us love giving presents and I can't think how we've come to the sort of state we're in the Western world where come the festive season, Christmas gifts seem to be a source of such angst and resentment.

If you told somebody in a poverty-stricken village in India or Africa that there were people with money and resources who yet found the buying and the choosing of Christmas gifts so stressful that it kept them awake at night, I do believe they'd conclude that we'd taken leave of our senses.

We're short of time, I grant you, and that's a problem, but there are ways around it. One way is to pick up delightful Christmas gifts when we come upon them all through the year so as not to have to do it all in the final run-up to the day.

Anyway, I love Christmas gifts - I love giving them and

I love getting them, though I'm usually too pressed for time to be as imaginative as I'd like to be. The most perfect Christmas gifts, of course, are those that are so particularly appropriate to the person, their life and needs, that they offer little general guidance for the rest of us.

But as I've been giving and receiving Christmas gifts for more years than I'm going to own up to, I've both given and received my fair share of duds. I've also had Christmas gifts of such generosity and perfection that it makes me feel happy all over just thinking about them.

I'm of the school of thought that thinks that wrapping matters. I'm entranced by lovely packaging and one of the great joys of visiting Japan is the sheer aesthetic refinement of it all. Do I always manage, come Christmas time, to deliver up little works of art? Of course not. But, unless something is oversized they at least get wrapped somehow. And I do have aspirations - one day, one Christmas, it's all going to be gorgeous.

Lucia van der Post is a member of the expert panel of style journalists and trendsetters who vet and select gifts for The Handpicked Collection, a website and catalogue featuring a selection of unique Christmas gifts.

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