See Why Almost Everybody Can Appreciate A Simple Prank Gift
Coming up with ideas for gifts can be very hard sometimes. Especially if it is for people you don't know too well, so you have no idea of their interests and what they might consider practical and useful. In this situation many people would start looking for something that will appeal to themselves, which can be completely opposite from what the recipient might enjoy.
Too bad that everyones lifestyles make completely different things useful for everyone. I for instance don't know very much about repairing and tuning cars. If my car breaks I just leave it at the mechanics, get a rental for a couple of days and that's it. This makes the book about do it yourself car repairs and various tools I have received from my car loving father completely useless for me. Even if it might have saved me money in the long run and been considered "useful".
The truth is that if you are one of the lucky people that live in our modern western society, you probably already own everything you like, want or consider practical. Of course sometimes someone will give you something you will use for years to come, but chances are if you needed something you would have just bought it for yourself.
So if we ruled out practical gifts, what is left? Gifts that invoke some kind of memory or positive emotion. This is why souvenirs are so popular even though they often are cheesy, pointless or even plain ugly. They invoke the memories from the trip. In the same way a nicely framed picture you got from your partner might invoke happiness every time you see it.
This is where the often overlooked gag gift or prank gift comes in. Happiness and laughter is the most positive emotion we can experience, and gag gifts are often designed just to make us laugh. Even if people wont remember the specific gift very long they will remember the feeling it invoked in them. The fun at a 50th birthday party might be remembered for the rest of this persons life, but will he remember all the junk he got? Probably not.
Too bad that everyones lifestyles make completely different things useful for everyone. I for instance don't know very much about repairing and tuning cars. If my car breaks I just leave it at the mechanics, get a rental for a couple of days and that's it. This makes the book about do it yourself car repairs and various tools I have received from my car loving father completely useless for me. Even if it might have saved me money in the long run and been considered "useful".
The truth is that if you are one of the lucky people that live in our modern western society, you probably already own everything you like, want or consider practical. Of course sometimes someone will give you something you will use for years to come, but chances are if you needed something you would have just bought it for yourself.
So if we ruled out practical gifts, what is left? Gifts that invoke some kind of memory or positive emotion. This is why souvenirs are so popular even though they often are cheesy, pointless or even plain ugly. They invoke the memories from the trip. In the same way a nicely framed picture you got from your partner might invoke happiness every time you see it.
This is where the often overlooked gag gift or prank gift comes in. Happiness and laughter is the most positive emotion we can experience, and gag gifts are often designed just to make us laugh. Even if people wont remember the specific gift very long they will remember the feeling it invoked in them. The fun at a 50th birthday party might be remembered for the rest of this persons life, but will he remember all the junk he got? Probably not.
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