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Holiday shopping can sometimes be a real headache.  Some people are incredibly difficult to buy for.  What do you get for the person who has everything?  The person who doesn’t seem to want or need anything?  Or maybe you are in a position, thanks to those wonderful Christmas grab bags, of having to buy a gift for someone you really don’t know all that well.   A magazine subscription provides for a gift that has a nice personal touch yet doesn’t require that you know anyone’s shirt size or favorite perfume and as an added bonus can run you as little as $10.00 for a full year. With a little general knowledge of the kinds of things they like you can give a gift that they can enjoy all year.

Do they enjoy cooking?  There are dozens upon dozens of food and beverage magazines on the market running the gamut from backyard barbecue to gourmet dinners.  Southern Living, Taste of Home, Light & Tasty, and Diabetic Cooking just to name a few.  Appetizers to desserts, diet advice, helpful hints, step by step “how to’s”.  As a nice little extra benefit, this is a gift that can get you invited to a lot of really good dinners!!

Do you have someone on your list that is forever clicking away on his or her camera?   Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography or Shutterbug among others will keep them up to date on the latest information on equipment and techniques for less than the cost of a couple good steaks.

For sports fans there are more magazines than you can imagine.  Football, golf, hockey, racing, tennis, and soccer  – you name the sport you’ll find dozens of magazines for the fan.  Stats, biographies, interviews with players, owners, coaches and announcers, the rundown on everything that is important to the sport.  There aren’t too many people who haven’t heard of Sports Illustrated, BASS, American Rifleman or ESPN the Magazine, but there is also Shark Diver, Watercraft World and Triathelete.   Many sports magazines like the NASCAR Scene also have online versions of the magazines that you can subscribe to once you have a subscription to the paper version.

Without searching too hard you can find magazines for wine lovers, motorcycle enthusiasts, crafters and people who love to travel.  Avid campers? Backpacker, Camping Life and MotorHome will provide them with hours of reading pleasure.  American Woodworker, Country Sampler and Dollhouse Miniature will keep your favorite crafters busy for hours on end, possibly netting you a few really nice home made gifts in return!

Boy’s Life, Seventeen and CosmoGirl! are just a few of the magazines available for the teens on your list. Baby Bug, Children’s Digest and Disney’s Princess will give parents of toddlers plenty of “read to me” material.

Magazines provide, information and entertainment on just about any topic you can think of.  No matter what kind of person you have on your holiday gift list you will be able to find an appropriate gift in a magazine subscription.

Superstitions:  There are a lot of superstitions and legends involving the giving and receiving of gifts.   For instance it was at one time considered bad luck to give a pair of scissors or a knife as a gift because it was feared that the act would “cut” the friendship in half.  Therefore knives were never given as wedding gifts as it was believed they would lead to a broken marriage.

Also never give anyone a pair of shoes as a Christmas gift because they would make the person you give them to walk away from you.   When you give someone a gift of a wallet or purse be sure to put some money into it, even if only a coin, to ward off bad luck.  At one time bakers would throw in an extra roll when you bought a dozen as a “gift” in case any of the other rolls were too small.  This “gift” became known as the baker’s dozen.

Urban legends:  Legends are told as having happened long, long ago whereas urban legends are set in contemporary times and told as having happened to people known either personally to the teller or to someone known by a person the teller knows.  The places and names change as they are updated to fit current times and all carry a warning or lesson of some sort.  There may even be some truth to the story although the people and places have been changed so many times that it becomes hard to determine what the truth actually was.

One such tale recounts a king’s offer of a gift to a famous golfer (sometimes the golfer is named other times he is just “a famous golfer”) who after first declining the gift asks for a golf club only to find to his amazement that the king has bought him an entire golf course.

In several different legends, although the people and circumstances change the story and its warning are the same.  A son (nephew, daughter, niece…) is expecting a very expensive gift (car, house, inheritance…) from his father (uncle, aunt…) but receives a bible.  In a fit of anger he throws the bible at the giver and leaves not returning until the givers death when he notices the bible from so long ago, opens it and finds the (key to the car, check to the car dealer, will leaving him everything etc.).

Then there are the one-up-manship legends.  Two or more siblings vie to get the best gift for their mother (houses, cars, jewels) with one going to great expense to get a bird (myna, parrot…) that has been specially trained (to read the bible, sing opera, speak Italian…). The mother politely thanks all (while letting them know their gift wasn’t very practical) then speaks proudly of the child who had the sense to bring her the delicious chicken.

There is also a true story of two brothers who re-gifted the same pair of pants back and forth wrapped in very creative ways, from rolling them into a 3′ long 1″ wide pipe to stuffing them into the glove compartment of a car that they then had crushed and delivered in time for Christmas.  The pants went back and forth for 25 years before they finally fell apart.

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