Christmas Candle Gift for Someone Who Has Everything: Give What They Can’t Buy

Read Time:10 Minute, 10 Second You have typed their name into a search bar three times tonight. “Gift for dad who has everything.” “Gift for the friend who buys herself whatever she wants.” And every year it ends the same way: a hamper, a bottle, a scarf, a thank-you that is perfectly polite, and a box that sits unopened in the garage until Easter. The person who has everything is the hardest name on the list, and not because they are fussy. It is because “don’t get me anything” is the only request they ever make, and they mean it. They have handed you nothing to work with. They do not have everything. They have everything a shop sells. Start there, because it changes what you are shopping for. The person who has everything is short of exactly what everybody else is short of in December. Somebody who noticed what they are actually carrying this year. A sentence that proves it. And, more often than you would think, somebody who prays for them by name.

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