Everybody Can Appreciate A Simple Prank Gift

by Ella Nyman

What do most people think of when they are trying to come up with a good gift idea? Usually they go around looking at stuff that they themselves might enjoy because they don't really have a clue what the recipient will enjoy. Another thing people consider is things that the recipient will have practical use for. But is this always the right choice?

If you think about it, what you consider practical, is probably completely useless for somebody else. My grandma received a bunch of cooking stuff on her birthday from my mother, because they both like to cook. I too usually receive cookbooks and similar kitchen stuff from them on my birthday. Are cookbooks practical for me? Not really, unless you count that I give them away to other people on their birthdays.

In modern western society most adult people already own everything they might want or need. The only thing that remains are those that they cannot afford like a sports motorcycle, a trip around the world or a yacht. But those gifts are completely unrealistic for most of us.

The other category of good gifts are the gifts that are able to invoke a positive memory or feeling in the recipient.
This is why grandparents enjoy nicely framed photographs of their children, this is why we buy souvenirs even thou they are really just a bit of junk. They make us remember the place we bought it and the feeling and memory that place left us.

This is where the often overlooked gag gift or prank gift comes in. Happiness and laughter is the most positive emotion we can experience, and gag gifts are often designed just to make us laugh. Even if people wont remember the specific gift very long they will remember the feeling it invoked in them. The fun at a 50th birthday party might be remembered for the rest of this persons life, but will he remember all the junk he got? Probably not.

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