Gifting ideas for Friendship Day
Life is a series of ups and downs and the presence of friends makes things easier. The most special attribute of friendship is the fact that you become friends with someone because you like their presence and not because you have to. Unlike other relationships that are bound either by blood or by lust, here it is the strings of pure platonic love that holds things together. The purity of this relationship is such that people often tend to take this relationship for granted. To avoid such a thing and realize the value of friends, the first Sunday of August is celebrated as Friendship Day.
Now, the celebration of friendship has different meanings for different people. While some people like to go out for grand parties, others like to keep it low and spend a quiet evening with their closest buddies. Irrespective of what your choice is, it is a good idea to gift your friends some small tokens of love. Now while most people like the idea of this gesture, they end up at a loss about what to gift their friends.
To help you decide in this regard, we have some gifting ideas for friendship day.
1. Chocolates
If you know that your friend has a sweet tooth, there is no need for you to look any further. Several specially packaged chocolates have been designed for friendship day. You may pick something among them, or you can go for the classic chocolates. If your friend is a female, going for chocolates with fancy boxes is advisable as the boxes may be recycled later for storing jewellery or other nick-knacks.
2. Memory book
This gift is recommended if you and your friend have been around for years. The memory book that you gift will then have pictures and notes that date back to the beginning of your friendship. The book will allow your friend to walk down the memory lane and cherish the evolving of your friendship. The best thing about this gift is that you have the option of either making the memory book yourself or purchasing the same from the market. Your choice will depend on your budget, availability of time, your creativity and how close you are with your friend. If you are opting for a ready-made memory book where you just must paste the pictures, try to write some comments here and there to give it a personal touch.
3. Perfumes
Deodorants and perfumes signify intimacy. Thus, when you gift a perfume to someone, it means that the person is very close to you. Although this gift is not recommended for a distant friend, it will make a very good gift for your best buddies. While buying perfumes for your friend make sure that you do not choose from the lowest range as those are often not good for the skin. If your budget is less, we would recommend that you pick up some other gift.
4. Accessories
This is a new trend that has replaced the concept of gifting mementos and showpieces. By gifting something useful, you will ensure that your friend remembers you more often. If you are gifting a guy friend, caps, watches, bow tie, cufflinks, etc. make good gifting options. For a girl, jewellery, scarf, bags, and wallets are things that can never go wrong. You may also choose to give some accessory for the house instead of one for a person. Cushion, pen stand or a Swiss knife are the most popular options in this genre.
5. Fruit infuser water bottle
If you want to push your friend towards a healthier lifestyle, you can start with this gift. Not only is this a very beautiful gifting option for those low on cash, but it will enable your friend to think about you multiple times during the day. This is a rather uncommon gift, and chances are that no one else will give this to him thereby making your gift all the way more special.
6. Wine
There is nothing like sitting down with friends and discussing major life happenings over a glass of wine. Now, there has to be a particular wine that is your favourite, something you would want your friend to try out. The friendship day gives you a wonderful opportunity to gift that. If you want to take things to the next level, you may also gift a wine opener to help with the cork or a pair of wine glasses. This gift will be an investment that will pay off in the form of memories of the two of you sipping wine in the two glasses.
7. Air fryer
The air fryer is another worthy gifting option if your friend is a health freak or if you are trying to push him or her to a healthier lifestyle. These help one prepare fried snacks with 80% less oil. With this, your friend will no longer have to make the difficult choice of having to pick one among tasty food and good health. Indeed, there is no greater gift than that of good health.
8. Personalized calendar
For someone you have spent a lot of memories with, a personalized calendar makes the best gift. As more than half of 2019 is over, you may well design it for 2020. A few quirky quotes, memes or some inside jokes may well make their way to this. That way, every time your friend looks at it, he or she will be reminded of the good times they have spent with you. This will remind them of the fact that there is always someone to hold their back.
It is important to realize that while gifting friends is a welcome gesture, gifts are not the central idea of friendship day. It is spending time together, sharing the sad and joyous moments and being for each other at all times that form the essence of friendship. If that is maintained, every day is friendship day, isn't it?
