Offering gifts is not binding.
A gift can be neither asked nor ordered, nor suggested.
This happens only in some special situations.
But a well-educated man would gladly receive some advice in this field.
Knowing how to give small gifts and doing it with discretion is a sign of nobility.
The way of offering and receiving gifts can be learned.
Not by chance, in Japan - the country of courtesy - there are courses on this topic.
Small gifts maintain friendships and produce to anybody a great pleasure, but with one condition: to be given from the heart and without a certain interest.
After we found out or guessed the wish of those to whom we want to offer a present, it is better to buy it and keep it until the occasion.
This way, we can avoid the stores congestion around the holidays and we will spare many nerves.
Exceptions are the sweets and flowers, that must be fresh.
He who receives a gift must open it in front of the one who offered it and will not spoil the joy by protesting that it is too expensive, that it was not necessary or that he dislikes it.
He must thank return nice comments about the present.
If we do not like a gift, we will carefully hide this.
Unfortunately the habit of offering money instead of gifts is spreading.
Do not do that! Money, if considered to be given, will be offered some other time, not at the anniversary.
At a special occasion you must bring a special gift, chosen with the heart, after a long thinking.
A gift is worth as two if it is given at the right time, and that is strictly on the day the event takes place.
The package is also very important.
We must always have in the house brightly colored ribbons and colored wrapping.