by Jerome Espinosa Baladad

Created on: December 11, 2009

This maybe a no brainer, but it takes a lot of thinking just to be able to come up with excellent gifts for those you don’t specially like. But in the spirit of the season when most of us go crazy giving out gifts without pouring out our valuable thoughts (already harassed by demands from other sources) over the act of gift giving, we might as well give gifts to those we don’t necessarily like (remember the saying “what goes around, comes around”). They may end up your friends, eventually (for all we know). There are many ways of doing it without necessarily offending your targeted recipient, and they include the following suggestions:

1)    Make yourself contribute, at least monetary wise, to purchase a group gift for someone you don’t particularly like. Bring up the idea to others who also know the targeted gift recipient, in the guise of being thoughtful on the surface by taking time to suggest ideas for a gift. People who usually fall under this approach include your direct superiors who may be making things difficult for you, your siblings with whom you have unresolved grievances, your enemies you’ve accumulated through the years, and those who annoy you immensely.

2)    Act as if you’re being thoughtful by asking directly, or by emailing, or by texting the person you don’t exactly like on what gifts they may prefer to receive from you (state your own limits, too).  If you don’t receive any reply, consider yourself winning the game, as you may have definitely sent out the message that the person’s actually in your thoughts, and you somehow want something for a gift for him / her. Then communicate again, saying that you’ll not give the person any gift as you’ve not received any reply at all for your “thoughtful” queries.

3)    It’s your chance to rehash, re-use gifts that you have received and you don’t want in the first place (but can’t refuse or return to sender). Recycle these gifts by giving them away to those people you don’t like.

4)    Or you can be authentic to yourself by expressing what exactly you have in mind, and send out the message cryptically through your gift. Send out something that may be not be useful to that person that you don’t like. Examples include food items that you know the person doesn’t like (or can’t eat), personal utilities like soap, body

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