Special Birthday Gifts

Buying birthday gifts isn't easy because you can't rely on traditional holiday gifts to help you if you don't know what someone likes. Unlike office holiday parties where you can get away with a box of candy canes, you need to give a decent gift if you go to a birthday party and it doesn't matter how well you know that person or not. All of this gets even harder if you have to buy a gift for a woman. Men might shrug off bad gifts but women like to keep a tab on these things and they have a long memory

One thing you should never do is downplay the importance of a gift to a woman. When most people need to give a gift to a woman and don't know her very well, they usually go with either wine or flowers and that means that she'll have about three different kinds of flowers and four different kinds of wines. The point is that it's the same gift from different people.

And flowers that are going to die in a few days don't really make a real gift for birthday. If you were buying a gift for someone at work, jewelry isn't really something that you'll consider however birthday gift baskets are something that you can give to just about anyone. If you had to find a gift for your college or a gift for her, you could easily go through the wide selection of gift basket themes and find a suitable one.

Cookies and baked items or jams could be a good theme if you're going to give a gift to someone old but if you need to give a gift to a female colleague and you're afraid flowers or wine might not be appropriate or that they might send the wrong signal, you can go with fruit themed birthday gift baskets or fruit bouquets.

Most women get flowers on their birthdays and often from people they know really well so giving someone a gift basket is a great birthday gift idea that's affordable and well received.