Cheat Sheet for Santa Claus

If you bought the wrong gift, go to the store and fix your mistake. There’s nothing worse than a grimace on the face of the recipient.

A pick-up counter, a talking moneybox à la Darth Vader, an inflatable guitar of a rock star — some gadgets were made just to make you laugh when you take it out of an elegant box lying under the Christmas tree. After New Year’s Eve at the latest, they will be in the trashcan, because they are impractical and redundant by definition — after all, you have to feed the machines in China regularly and drive the wheels of the global economy.

It is a pity that we are ruining our home budgets and our beautiful planet by the way. To top it all off, our gifts rarely meet the expectations of the recipients — half of those surveyed by the American Retail Association consider returning the received gift to the store at least once a year.

Lover is better than grandpa. How to make the Christmas dream of a wife, child or colleague from work come true, not look like a suffocating person and demonstrate that we practice ecologically responsible consumption? We should determine what needs we want to satisfy and make sure that our gift suits a nice person’s heart,” advises Devin A. Byrd, a lecturer in psychology at the Faculty of Behavioral…