A Tip For Remembering Gift Ideas

Why is it that when it's time to buy your friend a gift,

it is impossible to think of something

that will actually be meaningful to them

and not just a piece of junk?

And what can we do as a society to correct this problem?

This is the bane of my existence, Ariel.

I am terrible at gift giving.

It is not my love language.

I am not.

It is not my circus.

Certainly not my monkeys.

I am bad at gift giving and the primary reason is

I have a terrible memory for things people tell me they want.

I just don't remember.

And people don't go around walking,

talking about the gifts that they want.

But like, you hear people, they'll be talking

and they'll say like, ah, I wish I had that thing.

Or like, ah, I need to solve this.

Like, you do hear it in your day to day with your friends.

And then I forget.

Well, a couple of years ago, I started trying

to solve this problem by every time a thing in my brain went,

they just mentioned something they might like some day.

I write it down.

I write it down in my little contacts app as a note

so that later when I'm thinking, ah, I'd like to buy Ariel a gift.

I can pop open the note and see what Ariel has mentioned

in my presence as a thing she might like.

And I can give a more personalized gift

and I'm not freaking out making a decision on the fly.

That's the tip.

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You know, I'm just realizing Ariel.

We're like almost two and a half years into this podcast.

We really should come up with a different name

between our guest tippers and the tip of Dale's submitted tips

at Fridays.

Did I call it a guest tipper?

That's not right.

Yeah, I do it every time.

Right, we've got guest tippers.

We've got Tip and Dale's.

That's the general question.

Tip and Dale's, can you please submit to us your ideas

for names we could call tip and Dale's submitted tips?

And it's not TSTs.

That's not good.

No.

It's something else.

Tip and tips is crazy.

Ooh.

Tip and Dale's help us out.

Yeah, please.

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