🎁 7 Reasons Gift Giving is a Nightmare and How We Make It Slightly Less Shit

At The Inappropriate Gift Co, we're all for hyping up gift buying as the holy grail of happiness. We throw around impressive facts like how buying gifts for others releases 80% of your daily dopamine requirements (and how 46% of statistics are completely made up). But let’s get real for a second, gift shopping isn’t always sunshine and serotonin. It can be overwhelming, stressful, and enough to make you buy a digital Dan Murphies voucher and give up.

Whether you’re shopping for the best Father's Day Gift, a thank you gift for your boss (before asking for asking for 6 weeks off to travel Europe), or a birthday gift for your weird mate Gary who already owns everything including a F#ucky McF#uckface plush Duck, here are 7 reasons gifting is hard, and how The Inappropriate Gift Co. can help to make it just a little less crap.

1. “I Have No Bloody Idea What to Buy Them”
   We all have that one friend who is impossible to buy for! They either already have everything or complain about everything. So, what's a friend to do?
   The Inappropriate Gift Co. makes gifts for the people who don’t want gifts. If nothing else, it will give them a good laugh, which is likely exactly what they need! 
   
2. I Don’t Want to Spend a Fortune, but I also Don't Want to look like a Tight Arse!
   We've all been here, the love is high, but the funds are low. If you had to go grocery shopping and pay for electricity in the same week, cash can get tight. Welcome to the tightrope walk of modern gifting. You want to look generous, but not so generous that your bank account starts dry-heaving.
   The Inappropriate Gift Co has range of hilarious gifts under $20. Affordable, inappropriate, and just offensive enough to distract from the price tag.
   
   

3.  “I Left It Too Late...Again”
   It's 10pm, you've just spent the last hour scroll through Facebook and sharing Inappropriate Memes with your besties (we love you🥹), then it hits you...The birthday is tomorrow. You're sweaty. You're panicking. You're thinking about what you can regift...
   If this is a recurring trait, you might want to have a read of our blog on creating a gift cupboard, a brilliant resource that can make even the most disorganised person appear organised! 
   
   This will help your future self, but for a last-minute gift that will still make someone feel seen, remembered, and loved, you can't go past our digital downloads. Slap a funny wine label on a bottle of wine, and you instantly go from last-minute to wait a minute...this is brilliant!
   
   
   

4. They're Impossible to top buy for!
   It's the polite thing to say..."Oh, I don't need anything", but we all know, it would be completely inappropriate, even rude, to show up to a birthday gathering without a gift! We have the perfect gift for friends like these...the perfect place to hang their pearls and diamond jewellery in the evening...
   
   
   
5. “I Hate Shopping. Period.”
   You're not alone if you simply hate the idea of shopping...so do 80% of men, according to a British study the most off-putting part of the shopping experience for men is going with their wives 🤣. 
   The number one goal for The Inappropriate Gift Co. is to make shopping FUN! That's why all of our products have funny descriptions and a sprinkle of memes. So do away with the pain, and shop from your couch. In your trackies. While eating cheese. Just hit “add to cart...checkout” and we’ll take care of the rest.
   
   
6. “What If They Don’t Like It?”
   There is always a risk that the gift will go unwanted; there's also a risk that you will get stuck in an elevator or spill your morning coffee on your white blouse (this risk is around 99.5%). All day we are exposed to risk, we can't let this own our decisions or we would simply go nowhere and do nothing. So, take the risk, buy the gift, the one that makes you laugh...and hopefully your friend will love it too. 
   This particular puzzle gets harder the more you play with it 🤣❤️
   
   
   
   
7. “It Needs to Feel Personal”
   It can't just feel like something grabbed off a dusty department store shelf. You want the perfect gift for your best friend that will make them feel like you really get them! 
   The Inappropriate Gift Co. has carefully curated the ultimate gift selection for women who are fun, fierce, and unapologetically authentic, because at our age, there's no more time, or energy for fluff and sugar-coating! We’ve also thrown in a few fun gifts for the men, the dad's, husbands, brother's and friends who also share a wicked sense of humour and love of a good wine. 🍷😉
   
   
   Gift giving doesn’t have to be a soul-sucking, budget-blowing, stress-inducing ritual. At The Inappropriate Gift Co., we believe gifts should be fun, affordable, and slightly offensive, just like your friends.
   So next time you start to cringe at the idea of another trip to the shops to buy a gift save yourself the trouble and jump online for some laughs and gift buying made FUN!