Enter to Win One of Five $50 RedEnvelope Gift Cards (Contest Closed)
Believe it or not, the holidays really are right around the corner. And to help with your gift giving (or maybe you’re giving a little gift to yourself), we’ve got a terrific giveaway to kick off your week.
Just comment to this post by 11:59 pm on Thursday, October 28th to enter for your chance to win one of five $50 gift cards for RedEnvelope, a site for unique and personalized gifts.
RedEnvelope is all about indulging yourself or someone you love in a little bit of luxury and they offer everything from spa packages to silk pajamas to help you do just that. And, since presentation is part of the experience when you’re giving a gift (or an indulgence for yourself), everything comes packaged in the signature red gift box with ivory ribbon pictured on the left. As someone who received a gift from RedEnvelope, I can personally report that it’s lovely.
To make the giveaway even more fun, we’d love it if you’d tell us who is the toughest person on your gift list. No need to name names, of course, but who leaves you scratching your head until the very last minute each and every year? If you’d just prefer to comment, that’s okay, too.
Remember, this contest closes on 11:59 pm on Thursday, October 28th. And a further note: Each gift card is good for $50 at the RedEnvelope site and expires on 12/31/2010. The cards were given to AAR for reader giveaways by RedEnvelope.
So, fess up: Who stumps you every year?
– Sandy AAR
You can forget about ever pleasing my older sister with a gift, n matter how much thought and care you put into it. She appears insulted after receiving gifts, which is so laughable and sad.
I’m dreading my Holiday shopping. I’m trying to get an earlier start, but I honestly don’t know where to start :( If
My Dad! The only things he’ll say he wants is socks. I’ve given him dress socks, gym socks, hiking socks, thermal socks, and so on and so on. It’s getting old.
My mother! What do you give to a woman so used to sacrificing her time and money to help others, she hesitates to say she wants something for fear it would cut into money she could use for an emergency?
My brother. He usually wants clothes but he never likes anything unless he picks it out himself.
My mom. She waits two or three years, then returns the gift. Grr. Put my name in the hat.
My brother is the hardest person to shop for. He is not iterested in a lot of things and the things he is interested in are things that I cannot really find things for.
Like so many others, the hardest person to shop for is my husband. Luckily for me, we have decided not to exchange gifts with each other this year but to donate the money that we would have spent on each other and support the local battered womenś shelter, instead. It makes holiday shopping easier and we get to enjoy the enhanced spirit of giving. Thanks for this RedEnvelope opportunity.
The hardest person I have to shop for is my mom. She totally freaks out every Christmas to the point I don’t dare mention the word “”Christmas”” in her presence, let alone ask her what she wants. So I have to guess at what she might want/need.
The hardest person to buy for is ME!!!! If I want something I usually just go out and buy it. After me I would say my sister in Florida!
The hardest person I have to shop for is my husband. He is so good to me and always comes up with the best gifts for me. He tells me not to buy him anything and then I find out he’s buying me something so I have to go and buy him something. He always says he loves what I get him but I wonder. I would love to get him something super nice this year. He’s such a good man to me and my kids which arent even his.
My older sister is so difficult to buy for. She claims she has everything she needs under 500.00. And who’s planning on spending that much!
My husband. He always says he doesn’t want anything, but you know he really does. Put me in.
The hardest person I have to shop for is my nephew! He is nine but he likes little cheap gifts like the new silly bands! He told me he wanted twenty packs of them. But I have a hard time spending money on such junkie things and he doesn’t really play with toys anymore! It’s so hard to shop for him!
Red Envelope is so cool. This is great!
My sister-in-law stumps me every year. She is a shopaholic, so she buys everything she wants and then buys more. My gifts for her are hit or miss. Some years she really likes the gift and other years I can tell it’s not a gift that excited her, even though she is polite and says all the right things.
I will definitely look into a RedEnvelope gift this year. Maybe this year will be a hit instead of a miss :-).
One of my aunts is very particular and hard to please, so every year is a struggle to find just the right gift for her.
My father hands down as his default answer is always “”socks,”” “”underwear,”” or “”nothing.””
My parents are in their 80’s, and they say they don’t want or need anything. I usually am able to find something for them, though.
Both parents are so difficult because they do not need or want anything. But if they do happen to mention something…they always end up buying it themselves right away.
I have the worst hard time buying gifts for my brother! He loves everything electronic but makes way more money than I do and he buys everything for himself before the rest of us get a chance. I always end up doing the gift certificate thing! BTW – I say a gift certificate cash in commercial where they give you the cash and take the certificates! How fun is that?!?!?
To be perfectly honest it was my mom but since she died I haven’t really had a family Christmas. But for the last couple Christmases, I have been lucky to hang out at a friend’s place on that day. For her, her DH, MIL and UIL, I can buy whatever I can afford and they’re just happy I’m there. :-)
My mother, hands down. My dad is easy – my cousin and I, hockey tickets, done :D bonding time! But my mums?! Can never settle on a perfume, has extremely different taste in clothes than I do, doesn’t really like going to the spa, and has no real hobbies except reading, and she buys books all the time on her own. I love her though, and this would be awesome :D
My dad is the hardest too! I never know what to get him. It’s a pain every year.
Thanks so much for this opportunity. What a great prize!
My dad is toughest. I love him, but I never know what to do for presents for him.
My husband is the most difficult… he’ll tell me what he wants and then goes and buys it himself because he can’t wait. Drives me crazy!
My husband. So I don’t gift him any more. He’s on his own.
My mother-in-law. I want to make sure she loves her gift.
What a nice giveaway!
My Dad is the hardest to shop for. The only hobby he really has is his Harley… and there are only so many Harley-related products you can get someone. :) Not only that but his birthday is the 21st of December so I have to come up with two creative gifts (because combining the two just brings back bitter memories of is childhood, lol).
I usually end up with a gift card… sigh.
Thank you for the chance to win the Red Envelope gift!
I really like Red Envelope. They have really nice things and so I would love to win this one. My grown son is the one hard to buy for.
The hardest ones to buy for are my sons. They are still students and not yet settled in life, so “”stuff”” doesn’t work for them — the number of times can you ask your friends to help you move is inversely proportional to the number of boxes of stuff you didn’t unpack since the last move. Gift certificates are perfect.
My mom! My mom! My mom! She’s a shopper extradinaire and buys herself pretty much anything that catches her fancy. Something like this would make a perfectly unique gift.
Looks like a wonderful website. I’d love to win this prize!
Like so many other people, my dad is the hardest person to shop for. In the past cologne, coffee, and electronics have been our picks, but this year I think I’ll try for something different.
I would love to win this prize, Red Envelope is one of my favorite catalogs to look at and dream about.
My hardest person on the list – my brother-in-law. I generally give him a gift certificate to Barnes & Noble, but it would be nice to be more creative and I haven’t had much luck.
Love to win the prize. My hubby is soo hard to buy for. He hates anything “”useful”” like clothes and he already has his “”toys””. I usually go for something off the wall just to make him laugh!
One particular sister, who wants everything but when she gets it, makes a face, changing her mind or saying I didn’t want that. Her husband and kids don’t go too crazy anymore, they figure, she’s just going to change it anyway, lol.
Hmmm. I’m going to say my dad.
My father – no hobbies, doesn’t like clothes, has all the tools/gadgets he needs — arghhhh! Anyway, thanks for the opportunity.
My father is by far the hardest person to buy for. Not only will he go out to get for himself what he wants, he lives a more minimalist lifestyle and many presents fall into the category of “”waste of money.”” Aaah.
I’ve been getting him various electronic gadgets over the past few years but I’m quickly running out of ideas.
Thanks so much for the contest.
I’d be delighted to be gifted!
Thank you for the offer!
Im a fan of Red Envelope. My husband is the hardest to buy for since he always buys things when he wants them.
My mother is hard to buy for and I think she would love something from Red Box! She’s all about presentation and luxury. Something she can use to spoil herself with, given in a beautiful red box, would be the perfect thing for her.
My dad is inscrutable and impossible to shop for.
Cool giveaway! I have loads of possible people in mind…
My father is the most impossible person to buy for, every year, hands down. If only he’d take up a hobby!
Thanks for the contest! My parents are the hardest to shop for – they have everything they need and no real hobbies. Every year strains my brain!
My mother-in-law – for the past 18 years I have have gifted sweaters, framed pictures of the grandchildren, homemade projects, etc. For her birthday we are now reduced to tix to baseball games. This year I am in the clear – she called 2 hours ago with a request for more of her favorite perfume!!! My mom, on the other hand is easy – anything with a cat on it will be treasured forever…
Wow, a unique giveaway, it sounds like a great idea.