Make this Holiday Season stress free!

Holiday gift giving is now a question. The older simpler days of giving a scarf or mittens or a sled are over. Everyone wishes technology gadgets. You can't give household products because people by now have them or they are more finicky about kitchen, household, and personal items that they want specifically. The dilemma is that now with internet and huge stores and even greater selections of products, we each can choose from a multitude and range of possibilities for each item. Plus most people go out and buy those items themselves. I am in a real problem of what to get people this year. Let me give you some good examples. My mom wants a particular set of serving dishes and she already obtained it yesterday in an early Black Friday special. My nephews presently have more electronic games than they can even play and my brother acquires them the newest one immediately when it comes out. My sister wanted first-class luggage and told me yesterday at Thanksgiving dinner that she found one online and has already bought it for herself. My dad was up early this morn to buy new power tools for us for Christmas and I just know that he got himself one of each too. The last few years I requested my family at Thanksgiving for lists and that definitely helped me. Yesterday at Thanksgiving meal no one was able to come up with a checklist of things. This has been a increasing situation over the years. I don't have as enough time to shop and I detest to fight the crowds. My wife and I decided to go to a scheme holidays and buy everybody something by the topic of the year. One year while at a neighborhood book shop we started buying books and then went to a big box book store to pick up not only books but calendars and games and they even wrapped a lot of them for us. It turned out to be quite expensive but it did work. The next year we had been so busy that we just went to the food market and bought gift cards for everyone. That was totally easy but it was pretty detached and we didn't have time or want to take the effort to wrap them, so we ended up feeling cheap when we handed people just an envelope. Plus it wasn't cheap in the long term and the thank you letters confirmed that people got our gift cards and amounts mixed up with other people's gifts. They appreciated them and could use them but we noticed that we forgot to use our gift cards or lost them which was a absolute waste of money. In fact it was documented that stores like gift cards because so many people never use them or find them beyond the expiration date or misplace them. The next year we individualized it a bit more and purchased food and restaurant coupons we thought each person would appreciate. It was fine. Yesterday my wife and I were bemoaning the fact that gift giving has plainly become a gift card exchange and lost its whole appeal and intent. We lost for the older days of taking time to shake and open packages or people excited about something they have been wanting realized in a gift. Those days have simply vanished. People go online and just buy what they really want. A lot of her family members are downsizing and do not need more junk. When they need or want something they go buy precisely what they want and our gifts are either regifted or go to Salvation Army. This year we want to make an impact. Quite honestly we are usually doing our shopping at the last minute. We went online last night and decided we are going to either order or go out and battle the crowds today and do our shopping. This year we want our gift to be the first one people get. So for the friends and colleagues and extended family we won't see, we found a website and nearby company right here in Denver called Baskets by Rita. There are all kinds of holiday baskets to send. We ordered online those baskets to be delivered as soon as they can. Will they ever be shocked. Not only will ours be the first one there, but the packaged baskets are wrapped so nicely with holiday ribbons that will probably be put on exhibit in their house as a decor. It was so easy. We are done and don't have to panic about those gifts. Then we discussed about going to our relatives houses for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and we want to take the gifts ourselves so we didn't order baskets to be sent to their houses. Then we had a good idea. Why not order those gift baskets and have them shipped to our house and then we will have them to take. We are excited because we can walk in with a gift that is WOW and that is not the common mail order basket from the big companies. The baskets we are ordering today for family members are bundled with gourmet food items and that is just fine. Plus we decided that is one of the only things people don't buy for themselves. My mom just goes out and buys fresh flowers when she wants them. But none of us order a gift basket for ourselves. Perfect. We are placing the order today and guess what? We can now relax. We will have sent and gotten the gift baskets even before December l. That buys us not only gifts but the total freedom of not scrambling. The gift baskets to take Dec. 24 and Dec. 25 will be on display on the shelves in my home office ready to go. This year we will go to holiday parties and watch other people worry while we are eating out, going to movies, holiday parties and relaxing. Not only is Baskets by Rita doing all the work of buying, wrapping, and sending the gifts, but it turned out to be more affordable than what we usually spend because we already paid for shipping, wrapping and bows and all the extra costs that go up each year. Perfect. We are placing the order today and guess what? We can now rest. We will have sent and gotten the gift baskets even before December l. That buys us not only gifts but the whole freedom of not scrambling. The gift baskets to take Dec. 24 and Dec. 25 will be on display on the shelves in my home office ready to go. This year we will go to holiday parties and watch other people stress out while we are eating out, going to movies, holiday parties and relaxing. Not only is Baskets by Rita doing all the work of buying, wrapping, and sending the gifts, but it turned out to be cheaper than what we usually spend because we already paid for shipping, wrapping and bows and all the extra costs that go up each year.