Is giving a gift card for Christmas a slap in the face or good taste?

Yesterday, a friend of mine was going Christmas shopping and wanted to get my gift early so she asked me what I wanted for Christmas.

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For some people this is a very easy question, but for me, this is a very hard question.

BECAUSE there are a million of things that I WANT but don't necessarily NEED.

Plus, I hate it when people ask me things like that on the spot.

I'm a planner at heart.

I'm a person who likes at least 24 hours to think about things like that because I ALWAYS think of a better gift right after I tell the person what I want.

But since my friend "Cathy" was pressed for time, I used my fail safe.

I told her to get me a gift card in whatever amount at the store of her choice.

Case closed.

Or so I thought until she said something that puzzled me.

Cathy basically told me that she couldn't get a gift card for me for a Christmas gift because they were "too impersonal" and she was raised better than that.

This totally floored me!

But I kept my mouth shut and basically told her that anything she got me was fine.

P.S. People, I was lying through my recently whitened teeth.

After a couple of minutes more of talking, Cathy went off to Christmas shop.

And I went off to think.

Why was a gift card an impersonal gift?

I certainly didn't think so!

To me, gift cards are terrific gifts and not impersonal whatsoever!

And what the hell does giving a gift card have to do with being raised correctly?

I just don't understand that one.

I mean, I much rather a person get me a gift card to a store, even if it's not necessarily a store that I like because i'm the type of person that will find something in that store that I don't like, where I can buy what I WANT rather than them wasting their money on a crappy gift that I don't want and will wind up being exchanged, regifted or dumped in my basement.

To me, that's a total waste!

I mean just because little thought goes into buying a gift card alot of the time doesn't mean that the buyer of the gift doesn't love or care about the person that they are buying for or mean that the person buying the gift is too lazy to pick out a traditional gift themselves.

To me, gift cards are not only convenient but are also the coolest gifts of all because you're putting all of the control into the hands of the person that you're buying the gift for and I think that is a very personal thing to do.

So, to all of you gift card haters out there who refuse to purchase gift cards for your friends and loved ones for Christmas because they are "too impersonal", do this gift card lover a favor and get over yourself and go out and buy a gift card!

P.S. You know you want to!