cards and gifts

Most people know birthday cards and a lot of us use it on the birthday of a friend or relative or just somebody you know. Sometimes you send a birthday card by mail, email or give it in person and sometimes this comes with gifts alongside it and sometimes it doesn’t, obviously it’s easier to bring a gift if you give the birthday greetings in person instead of by mail or email.  And some might be uncomfortable to send birthday greetings through the mail with money inside the card. You never know what happens along the way .

Now when you give a birthday greeting there many things you can give as a gift alongside it, first en a very popular idea is to just give the birthday person money inside the birthday card, or a some ticket worth 50/100 dollar or Euros in that specific store, for some reason that seems to be a popular choice despite majority just preferring the money as a gift. 

While you could say giving money shows you didn’t really bother looking for a good gift, you can also argue that the birthday person would probably be a lot happier with money so he can spend it anywhere he wants over a coupon that he can only spend in that specific store, a store he happens to just never ever visit. It can happen to all of us.

While obviously those who really know you well will be able to make a good judgment call on what to buy for you (and even then it’s often a disaster if you ask me). I would argue that unless you have a pretty good idea money will always be better then coupons, and a actual gift will in majority of the cases be a better idea then both cash and a coupon!