By Criss White

Giving gifts shows your thoughtfulness and sincerity, no matter what gift-giving occasion it is. In the recent years, personalizing or customizing a gift has become more popular and more and more people prefer giving and at the same time receiving personalized gifts. If you are unsure or a little bit pressed for time to make the effort to give personalized gifts, here are some things that can probably help you change your mind.

– Personalized gifts are more unique – Even if it is a simple pen, customizing it by giving it a simple engraving would give it more value and is truly different from purchasing a plain old pen and giving it as it is. A specially-printed shirt is really more unique than giving a shirt bought from the department store and tens of other people are wearing exactly the same shirt. By adding personalization, the gift giver can say that they made the gift just for the receiver.

– Personalized gifts are time-stamped – It will be easier for the receiver to recall when the gift was given to him if it is a personalized gift. Gifts received during Christmas for example, may be mistaken to have been received on another occasion. But a personalized gift will be easily associated to the occasion when it was given, whether birthday, Father’s Day, or as a congratulatory gift. Especially for family members, your niece will appreciate seeing that her customized bath towel has changed from that Mickey Mouse towel design, to a solid color, to a more elegant bath towel as she has received throughout the years (although it would be better if aunt or uncle would give different types of gifts as well).

– Personalized gifts are more meaningful – Because it will take, if not a lot, but a little more time and effort in buying or making a customized gift, the gift is now deemed to be more meaningful because of this. This shows you really have thought it through to some extent and passed on the convenience of buying just any other gift. It takes thoughtfulness and well wishes to come up with an idea for a customized gift.

– Personalized gifts are more useful – Because you will not make just any gift personalized, the main gift in itself are commonly practical items or items that the receiver will definitely use, customized gifts are more useful that general gift items. A toiletry set may end up to be the same as the one everybody else has given, but a personalized soap bar or a bottle liquid hand soap will be more appreciated.

Gift-giving has always been pleasurable not just for the receiver but for the giver as well.
There are a lot of shops and even online stores that offer customized gifts. They can range from low-cost gifts to personalized gifts that have higher value. But no matter what the cost is, the value in personalized gifts is not in price tag, but rather, it is on the effort from the giver and the smile and joy of the receiver.

Criss White is a wedding writer for Bridal and Wedding Favors.

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