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[The Martian, The Force Awakens]

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Related to the thread above, who is the person you know who is the hardest to gift for and why? What have you ended up giving them?

My mother. She's very traditionally feminine. She likes jewelry and lotions and flowers and things of that nature. And that is so far from who I am that I never know what to get her without her telling me exactly what she wants.

My mum's like that too, and I'm also not feminine in that way. I once spent an hour desperately staring at aisles of makeup in Boots and showing a picture of my mum to shop assistants to ask them to help me pick something out. It's always super satisfying when she likes the thing I bought though, so I end up not minding too much.

I find it hard to gift my boyfriend. It's no use trying to gift him with something relating to his hobbies as 1) it's terribly expensive and 2) he knows his stuff whereas I'm clueless.

The last two years I gave him gift cards from a speciality food store that sell stupendously hot sauces and stuff like that.

my dad. I usually end up getting him coffee or something related to coffee.

my dad. He always asks for things way out of our budget or won't give us suggestions. This year was easy, for once because he wanted a new suitcase.

My brother-in-law. He LOVES video games, so I'd happily buy him those if I could, but he's got an account at a game store here in town, so he usually just goes and buys all of them himself. And he doesn't really have specific favorites in terms of movies, and he's not really one for a lot of TV or music, so that's out of the running for the most part.

Basically, there's a few fantasy book series he likes, so I try and see if I can find at least one book in that series for him if possible. Or sometimes my mom and I will get him a cool T-shirt or blanket or something.

My sister-in-law.

I barely know her. I don't like her. She's super hoity so she never asks for anything in my price range. She doesn't like clutter so you can't get her knick-knacks. My brother is useless in giving my any idea what to buy her, AND he waits until late December before ever giving me options and they're always things you have to buy on some trendy online store that will take weeks to deliver - long after Christmas (or birthday).

I don't even attempt to give my sister-in-law anything other than money or gift cards. We don't see each other much outside of Holidays, and while she's perfectly nice, I don't know her well; she likes sports so that could be something to consider, but she's already got so much sports related clothing and memorabilia that I feel like I'd end up getting her something she already has. Every year I ask my brother what I can get her, and every year he says, "Nothing, she's impossible to shop for."

A friend of mine is super hard to get gifts for. She likes physical objects, namely little vintage tchotchkes like glass cats and stuff that cost a fortune to purchase and ship and whines about how I never get her anything when I buy her Amazon cards.

My dad, because if he really needs something he'll go out and buy it for himself without bothering to tell anyone else. My brother and sister-in-law are also hard to shop for, mostly because I don't really know the sort of things they like. Dad usually gets DVDs and the rest of them get gift cards.

My boyfriend. His main hobby is video games but he buys most of them himself so unless I manage to catch him before he gets a game he wants there is nothing I can get him. He likes geek-stuff but he doesn't do the whole collecting memorabilia thing, so I can't even get him like novelty cups or socks because he'd never use them. And he'd never wear geeky t-shirts.

These days we'll agree upon a game I can get for him or I'll get him something practical, like this year I got him a 3DS case because he needed one.

My dad, because he has everything and needs very little.

BF and I ended up giving him wine and good chocolates, and a shared gift with my mom, which was a voucher for a meal at an Indian restaurant.

My mother. I'll never forget the year I gave her two books I was sure she was going to like (one about gardening, one about horses, two of her favorite subjects) and she was telling me who she was going to regift them to before she'd thrown the paper away.

My mom because she buys a dozen gifts for herself, so I have to come up with something that I know she won't get herself and that she also will need.

My father. He has enough money to buy anything he wants (as in electronics, clothes and stuff, not boats or luxury cars), and I don´t have much money, so, yeah, it´s hard.

I usually end up giving him a book of a topic he likes.

I find it hard to choose presents for anyone, because I think I'm a bit dense about people's interests at times.

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