OK, So What is the Point of Buying Your Wife a Gift?

So ask yourself, what is it you are trying to achieve when you give a gift? Of course, it’s to make the other person happy. We want to show them that we care and that we understand, at least a little, about them.

Mind-reading not required

Very often when coming up with wife gift ideas it can feel like we need to be a mind-reader in order to figure out what the perfect present would be! The real secret of getting it right every time for your wife is understanding what she values. Given that you already live together it should be relatively easy to find out in detail what that is, what she likes and dislikes!
I write relatively, because there is some work to be done, but the upside is that the very nature of this “work” to discover more about your wife will actually improve your relationship!

Perfect present stealth techniques

You must start asking questions, when she least expects them. Quiz her about gifts in general:

• the best present she ever received
• the worst present she ever received.

Ask why, what was it that made it the best or the worst. To stay safe here, you might want to ask about gifts that you did not give! Instead ask about gifts that your wife received from other people, and listen to her stories. Listen carefully for clues you can use. Are there any recurring themes? Things that are sure-fire winners (or losers)?
Does she have a special interest in collecting? What are all her hobbies and interests? Ask her to tell you why she enjoys a certain a thing.

Gift giving is a science

Remember that gift giving is a science. People who are amazing at giving gifts may make it look like a talent or an art, and in many ways it is, but it can be learned. By far the best way of coming of with great wife gift ideas is to know your wife’s likes and dislikes, in detail. It can take a bit of work, plenty of little conversations and digging up of memories from her past, but if you’re committed to being the best gift-giver that you can be then it’s worth the effort!

Just when you thought you knew about photo books, up pops something like this!
This would make such a great personliased gift for your wife.  This is a completely unique gift that has the WOW factor because it’s just so different and has the high quality finish that customers expecrt from PhotoBox.

All you need is:

• a few recipes,
• some photos of her,
• photos of the two of you together,
• a few of her favourite recipes,
• or perhaps your special “signature” dishes that you swept her off her feet with!

Then all you have to do is click on the image above to go to the page withinh PhotoBox and start creating a gift to remember!

M&S Personalised Cards

M&S Personalised Cards will change the way you send greetings cards forever. You can make birthdays or anniversaries more special by giving your wife a unique card, just for her. It’s so much more thoughtful and personal, and it’s a lot of fun too.
You can create greetings card for any occasion- her birthday, your anniversary, Easter greetings, Christmas etc. Ways you can personalise include adding her name and creating a special message of your own. You can add your own photos to some of the designs.
Once you’ve personalised the card, you can have it posted to your wife, or M&S can send it to you in an extra envelope so you can sign and deliver it yourself.

I’m always going on about personalising gifts, well with photos it doesn’t really get more personal!

I recently printed off a load of photos with extra copies and made up little gift parcels for various people in my family. It was a huge hit- people love photos and if you take a little bit of time to work with the digital images then you can get even more stunning results.

Perhaps even good enough to be put on the wall. Canvas prints are pricey, but definitely worth it as they just look fantastic. So when an offer like this one comes along then it’s time to look though your stash of photo and immortalise one of them- it can be something as simple as a family photo from the beach, or a photo of you and your wife together.

60 free prints to all new customers

For a limited period, PhotoBox are offering 60 free prints to all new customers. This is an increase of 20 free prints as the usual free prints offer is 40 free prints per new customer.

This offer is valid until midnight on 31/03/10.

Canvas Prints Offer

In addition to the free prints offer, PhotoBox are offering up to 41% off their range of canvas prints.

Is there anything as simple and as sure to please as chocolate? It’s an indulgent gift and if you’re out of ideas then make visiting the Green and Blacks store a priority. They have a gorgeous selection of gifts from non-nonsense slabs of chocolate to more dainty selections, and with some of the gifts you can even specify milk, white or dark chocolate preferences. Which is key, if you wife has a distinct preference.

The joy of chocaholism can be a guilty pleasure, so why not make the pleasure of chocolate even better and get her a gift that you can share!

Green & Black’s chocolate sharing hamper is a perfect way of saying Happy Christmas.

A luxurious selection of Green & Black’s intense chocolate products ranging from The Assortment – 20 bespoke dark, milk and white chocolates with a perfectly balanced selection of centres to our intensely flavoured Miniature Bar Collection. The sharing hamper contains our classic dark, milk and white organic Chocolate Squares box and a selection of Green & Black’s ribboned bars.
This box is the ultimate in sharing!
You can even make your own choice of 100g chocolate bars in the gift when you Checkout.

Contents:
1 x 200g Organic Assortment
1 x 200g Organic Chcolate Squares (Dark, Milk and White Chocolate)
1 x 180g Organic Miniature Bar Collection
5 x 35g Bars; White, Creamy Milk, Milk with Butterscotch, Dark 70% and Dark with Maya Gold
1 x 100g Milk Chocolate Bar
1 x 100g Dark Chocolate Bar
1 x 100g White Chocolate Bar
£30.00

Personalized Photo Gifts

Never underestimate the importance of a personalised present.

Your digital camera could be the way into a whole genre of thoughtful gifts for your wife. Photo companies offer a huge array of products these days- they’ve moved on from the chunky coffee mug to an array of high quality products that, when used with a good image, capture a special moments forever and make beautiful and thoughtful gifts. This article presents some photo gift ideas from PhotoBox.co.uk- the only company I use and recommend to friends and family.

Laser-etched Photo Gifts

Take, for example these solid glass, laser etched photo gifts- the photo of your choice is laser etched into the middle of a glass cube, glass paperweight or a glass frame making a timeless classic and elegant keepsake. These are particularly good for photos of your children or wedding photos.

Handbag Photo gifts

Does your wife like bags? If she does then PhotoBox.co.uk make personalised handbags, totes and shopper bags in a variety of shapes and sizes- all with the image you choose to make any style statement you like.

Even if you’re not so good at taking photos yourself (although it’s worth giving serious thought to this as a life worth living is worth recording…!) you can easily procure photos from friends and family via social networks like FaceBook and on photo sharing places like Flickr and Picasa .

Fashion Photo gifts

Everyone does personalised T-shirts but now you can get a much wider selection: create your own catwalk worthy designs for kitchen aprons, bibs, fashion tops. Choose a design, pick a colour, add an illustration or photo, a few well chosen words and you’re done.

Try to get into the habit of asking people for their photos after get-togethers and build a library. I use Picasa on my PC and iPhoto for Mac users looks great. With such programs you can favourite the best ones and then when you need to make a photo gift you can just browse through your collection.

Personalized photo gifts make fantastic presents for your wife- just get yourself a system for keeping digital photos and it’ll make an invaluable source of wife gift ideas that you can rely on for all sorts of occasions.