Hwan-Suk
Chung
(Chris)

Christmas Gift Ideas

In December, everyone has hard time finding the presents for families and friends. I would like to help you choosing the right gifts for your families and friends. I am going to use four different types of age group for the example.

Let me start with the group age #1, first group of people are the seniors. Seniors could be your grand parents or anyone over the age of 60. Someone like grand parents' age, I would recommend you with health products. These days, people are so concern about their health. It would be wise to find the health product for older people. There are many different types of health products today, and I am sure you will be able to find the right products for the person that you are getting the present for. Example of health products would be vitamin, ginseng tea, garlic capsule, etc.

The second group of the age is called the adult (age between 19 to 59). This is probably the category that most people fall into. For the young adults, I would suggest perfume for female and cologne for male. Most of young adults like to wear the perfume or cologne in every day life. For someone like mother's age, I would suggest cosmetic products. As people get older, their skin types also changes as well to a dry type of skin. So, it would be good for them to have moisture cream to protect from dryness. For someone like father's age, you might want to consider getting neckties. Neckties are one of the popular items that father like to have.

The third group is between the age of nine to eighteen. I am going refer them as teenagers. I think the best choice for the teenagers would be sports items such as skis, snowboard, rollerblade and so on. You might think they are very expensive to buy, but these items go on sales a lot after the season is over. So, if you buy winter sports items in summer, you can get them much cheaper than you would buy them in winter time.

The last category is the children. If I had children myself, I would buy them toys for Christmas. Why not the books? Because you can buy books at anytime, but you do not usually buy toys to your children unless special occasion such as birthday. For boys, you can get them mobile car or Lego. I prefer Lego myself. Because Lego helps them build the creativity. For girls, bobby dolls are the all time popular items for them.

December 1999