Women prefer gift cards to cash

I have 3 daughters, now grown up women. Buying birthday gifts for them is a real headache. What should I get for them? A dress? It may not fit them or they may not like the fashion. Perfumes? They may not like the scent. A pair of shoes? Again, fashion will play a great role here. Get the wrong pair and it may lie in a forlorn corner, unused. Headache, headache, headache.

Receive an alert from Gift Card Mall^TM which offered a possible solution to this headache. Here is the possibility - give gift cards.

The alert also mentioned something - news circulating that a great many retailers are closing (probably due to the sub-prime crisis and the economic crisis following it?) and not accepting gift cards. Another headache? No, read on. The message from Blackhawk Network says the above is not true and there still is a great majority of retailers who are still accepting gift cards as they do not want to disappoint customers and want to retain loyal customers. It also claims that consumers, both givers and receivers, prefer to give and receive gift cards as the recipient gets to choose what he or she wants and thus the money is not wasted. In fact according to a survey commissioned by Blackhawk Network, 70% of respondents are of the opinion that it is useful to give gift cards as the recipient can choose what he or she wants and thus no gift are wasted. More than half of the respondents in the survey says they would prefer to give gift cards in preference to giving cash.

Now the part related to women. More women (62% as compared with 58% for the population in general) plan to buy gift cards as presents this coming holidays season.

Informal wear for women

Women should wear clothing according to occasions. For example, if you are just graduating and going for prom night, then you should wear a formal gown. On the other hand, if you are just visiting friends or relatives, an informal and comfortable custom t-shirt will do, unless it is on occasions like Christmas etc. If you want to feel and look feminine, then go for women's styles

Feeling a bit sexy? How about American Apparel Baby Rib Tank like the one in the photo below:



Perhaps you have a message to convey via the t-shirt you wear. In this case cheap custom t-shirt printing is available.

Prom: graduating from girl to women

In the United States and Canada a prom, short for promenade, is a semi-formal (black tie) dance held at the end of an academic year (Wikipedia) and for a girl, perhaps it is also an event where they graduate from teenage to women hood. It should be an event to be remembered. So if you are going for prom night, this is the great opportunity for a girl to dress to kill. Girls will be dressed in beautiful formal Prom Dresses.

How about this ravishing red prom dress?



Here are more photos of beautiful prom dresses:







Perhaps to drive home the message that a girl is now graduating to a woman, you may even want to opt for an even more formal wear, a full-skirted ball gown