Discount Gift Certificates
If you have ever tried to play Secret Santa to a coworker you know diddly about and gave a gift that was tossed aside or nursemaid to a friend with a secret food allergy and gave a gift that he couldn't eat without landing back in the hospital or creative gift giver to a mate with ties and socks in neon colors that made him blanch, you already know that discount gift certificates are much wiser choices. In fact, discount gift certificates are more convenient, more reliable, longer-lasting, and safer than any actual brownies, socks, or gag gifts you could rely on giving. For instance, when a friend or colleague has allergies that you don't quite know the details to, discount gift certificates allow the recipient to pick and choose the right food items, ones that will bypass the itching, the redness, or the hives. Or for the person who is very picky about clothing styles, discount gift certificates will eliminate any stress on your part and equalize the playing field (or shopping field) for the careful or finicky shopper-who won't be able to resist buying exactly what she/he wants with a gift card or certificate that is the same as money, be it leather sleeveless shirts with studs or twelve matching skirts. And what about the friend who is wealthy enough to own 51% of the stocks in any store you could possibly find something remotely unique to her? Such discount gift certificates as those that allow you to buy a star in the heavens and name it after her will go over as much more creative and thoughtful than one more cat poster in a gilded frame might. And discount gift certificates don't expire, usually. So it's a fruitcake or a piece of jewelry-unless it's something that doesn't go bad or out of style--the discount gift card/voucher can be used for chocolates for their private reading sessions, when they are ready to eat bonbons and hit the bed or for tickets to a musical that isn't coming to town till next year. Such are the manifold benefits of discount gift certificates: you can give the benefactor the largest range of choice possible. Friends and loved ones can go for the special tools or toys we wouldn't bring ourselves to look at, never mind buy; they can find the items in the right caloric range or with