This is a perennial Christmas present question that never seems to get any simpler, no matter how long the relationship with your girlfriend or how well you get on.

In asking yourself what is a good Christmas gift for a girlfriend, you need to examine the question.

That’s actually quite simple if you take a few moments to think about the girl who will be receiving your gift.

Just precisely is your relationship to your girlfriend – intimate, close or casual?

You don’t want to make the mistake of presenting a gift that will be taken as a signal of intimacy to someone you intend to remain casual with. The reverse is also true.

What is your girlfriend interested in?

Focus on what she would like, not what you expect her to like, what you personally like or worst of all, what your Mother likes.

The worst gift my now ex-husband ever gave me for Christmas was an electric can opener, exactly like his Mother had just bought for herself. There’s a reason we are no longer together!

What message do you want to give?

By this I’m talking subtext. What you give as a Christmas gift for a girlfriend will come back to bite you if you buy something that looks cheap, something that screams exorbitantly expensive or something that says “I got Mother to pick up an extra one of these while she was out shopping”

Is there a Christmas gift that rings all the bells?

Well you may beg to differ but in my mind the best Christmas gift for a girlfriend, wife, partner, daughter or any other lady you care enough about to buy something for is a gift basket for women.

I’ll tell you why.

Themed gift baskets come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but always they look special. First impressions are important for any gift for a woman.

Items in a gift basket are an abundance of cute little packages, each one to be examined and unwrapped and exclaimed over separately, extending the joy of gift receiving.

Many of the items in gift hampers are things to be used up and once these gift items are used up, your girlfriend is happy to receive another basket on a different occasion.

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