Easter presents

What is a traditional Easter gift? I remember in my day, you had to eat as many boiled eggs as you could and that was about it. However, many times of celebration are being monetized now and Easter has a lot of scope for fertility gifts, egg related gifts, rabbit paraphernalia, jesus costumes, necromancy books, and chocolate. Which is a constant, I feel.

Get gift ideas for your family at MyWishWand. Choose something based on your giftee's personality using the gift ideas tool, or simply browse the virtual shopping mall...

Most popular wishlists for gifts

The Mywishwand shopping website now has quick links to the most popular gift ideas themes e.g. for football presents for boys.

There have been good reviews of the website from SchoolsTrader, BumbleBags, DailyCandy and MumsNet and Facebook seems to have a community growing that is using the my wish wand service.

Present Gifts

What is the best way to get a present for someone you know?

Say it's your daughter, who is an early teen. Do you have a clue?

Is it better to ask what they would like or what they feel they need in their life than to guess and risk wasting time, money and personal stress in buying an unwanted gift?

One solution is to let your children create their own "wishlist" where they can choose what they would like. Then they can let members of their friends and family see the list.

You can then "grant the wishes" on the list, thus avoiding duplicate presents for children and ensuring it was a wanted gift.

The commercial side of this is how the list is picked. The child or adult can search a selection of recommended retailers for the gifts they like in the virtual shopping mall.

You can also have gift ideas suggested using the gift suggestion tool - this is based on supplying information such as gender, age and personality traits for the person for whom you wish to buy a present.

Try it out at MyWishWand...

Virtual Shopping Mall

My Wish Wand now features a virtual shopping mall where online retailers best suited to providing presents for all the family now feature.

These are helpfully categorised for the important people in your life e.g. Little Darlings shows retailers catering for children, Yummy Mummies for gifts for mums, etc.

The site is being continually developed so expect more features in the run up to Christmas.