When it’s time to give a gift to someone, it can feel like an obligation. It can feel like something they aren’t going to appreciate beyond the obligatory thanks they will croak out right after that. But then, at the same time, there are different kinds of gifts. Part of the kind of gift you give is going to come down to the type of living situation the person is in.
Living situations are a huge component in the gift-giving tradition. After all, if you give something too luxurious, the person might feel uncomfortable with it. In some rare cases, they may even get afraid that it might end up getting stolen. Or, they might just end up pawning it. The thing is there’s a golden mean between giving someone you really care about yet another coffee mug and a Rolex watch with platinum and diamond inlays.
The Way People Actually Live
Whenever you’re about to get a gift for someone, you have to take a few things into account. For one, how does the person actually live their life? What kind of place do they live in? Giving something big to a person who lives in a smaller space is just cruel. At best, it will immediately come to dominate the space, oppressing every other item they care about until it takes over and makes too much of a statement. At worst, they will simply get rid of it the first chance they get because it might not even fit the place, literally as well as figuratively.
However, beyond the space itself, you also have to take into account how the person likes to live from a decor perspective. Decorating their space is an integral part of life, and decorating is going to involve making a lot of decisions as time goes on. When you give someone a gift that complements their decor and how they like to think of it, you’re enriching their environment. This isn’t the time for clashing or conflict, whether personality-wise or visually speaking.
The Effects Over Time
Over time, there’s going to be a lot of impacts done through your gift-giving. Even something small and seemingly easy to forget, such as a luxury throw blanket, can end up having a sizeable amount of impact over the course of time. Whether you mean for it to do this or not, you’ll be impacting how the person decorates for a while in a small way.
You might even find that the colour you choose to give them is going to influence the colours they pick in the future. While you aren’t going to change their favourite colour or emotional state they like to be in, you’re going to affect what they are willing to try if you integrate a tertiary colour. New colours spawn new colours. The effect you can end up having may be akin to knocking down the first domino.
