14 gifts to make December birthdays feel special
The folks who celebrate their birthdays during the month of December spend their entire lives having their own special day overshadowed by major gift-giving holidays, Christmas and Hanukkah, not to mention the nonstop flotilla of secular celebrations that run from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day. It's a list that includes office parties, family get-togethers, potlucks, pop-ins and night outs that seem to be making merry for everything — and everybody — but them.
To add insult to gift-giving injury, (presumably) well-meaning family and friends try to combine both gifts into a (bigger? better?) one. This is not OK. Nor is gifting any pair of items (salt and pepper shakers, earrings, shoes, stereo speakers) at two different times in two different kinds of wrapping paper the least bit clever. Repeat: No December-born person on your holiday shopping list really wants a twofer gift.
Yet the conundrum remains: What do you gift someone you're already going to be gifting sometime in the same calendar month? How do you acknowledge the December baby's unfortunate draw in the gift-giving lottery without committing the cardinal two-for-one sin? Try thinking outside things on the below list. It couldn't hurt.
