One thing I know for certain about myself: I am a terrible gift giver. I get very eeeeeeeeehhhhh i don’t know about buying presents. I get uncomfortable getting presents from anyone other than my husband! I just assume everyone else feels the same. They don’t.
I’m preemptively sorry for every loved one I got something for or was meant to get something for and blanked out on.
However! I love helping other people pick out gifts. It makes zero sense, but I really like guiding other people. I love when a friend asks for advice on this, I love putting together a little micro-proposal of ideas. It’s just when I personally know someone that I freeze up. So that!
And in the store, it was so much fun to work with the team to pluck out little gift moments, to suggest the things I’ve genuinely loved and hopefully see other people pick them up. From Mini Rodini socks for kids to the Attersee caftans, popovers, shorts, and blankets I covet, it was a blast selecting things for ByGeorge.
So anyway, m…
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