How to Select a Gift for Your Brother
Instead of the usual polo shirt or new tie, use your imagination to choose a gift your brother will really appreciate.
Things You'll Need
- Bookstore/music Gift Certificates
- Golf Lessons
- Greeting Cards
- Magazine Subscriptions
- Concert Tickets
- Health Club Memberships
- Sporting-event Tickets
- Theater Tickets
- Power Tools
- Theater tickets
Instructions
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Ask what he would like. If he has ideas, it will save you a lot of guesswork, not to mention shopping.
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Buy your brother a new tool or a gift certificate to a home-improvement store if he's a handyman.
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Give him a round of golf at his favorite course. Pay for a twosome.
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Pay for a series of golf lessons.
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Buy tickets to sporting events, Broadway plays, amusement parks or concerts, depending on his taste.
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Give a year's membership to a museum or other nearby attraction.
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Wrap up a year's subscription to his favorite magazine or a new one he would be interested in receiving.
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Give a gift certificate to a bookstore, software store, golf or fishing outlet, or upscale clothing store, online or otherwise.
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Buy a gift certificate to his favorite restaurant.
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Hire a landscaping service to do his yard work for several months.
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Pay for an initial gym membership - if you know that he's already thinking about joining one.
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Choose a gift-of-the-month club. Each month for a year he can receive microbrew beer, software, fruit, cigars, wine or other goodies.
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Give something personal. Collect information about your family history and have it put into a book, or copy and organize old family photographs to put into an album.
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Make something. Use whatever skills you have to bake, knit, paint, sculpt, draw or craft a gift.
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Tips & Warnings
Try to avoid gag gifts that will never be used. These items usually end up being sold at garage sales or tossed in the trash.