I don’t normally do product endorsements, then again, this isn’t an endorsement.
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen an ad for an app named “Go Wish.” The concept of this app is to aid people in finding just the right gift for another person. Perfect timing for a product launch with Christmas just around the corner, right?
The ad I saw made it look like the greatest invention ever.
The problems start with that the app doesn’t have any means to put in things like interests and hobbies. All you can enter is gender and age.
Can you see the issue?
I entered female, sixty-three, and was presently shown a nice long list of suggested gift ideas such as beauty products (all of which had some sort of floral scent), jewelry, and of all things a tan pencil skirt!
A pencil skirt? For a sixty-three-year-old woman? Not just this particular sixty-three-year-old woman but any woman of that age and maturity. Well, maybe, if she were rail thin and way into fashion, but I sincerely doubt a woman of my age would choose such a tight fit over something a lot more comfortable.
I honestly wouldn’t wear a pencil skirt when I was twenty-three and of a healthy weight, simply because pencils skirts are not built for anyone over a size of about eight. A young woman of size fourteen/sixteen would have unflattering bulges all over the place, no matter how flat her stomach, trying to wear a pencil skirt.
And I personally could never see myself trying to walk in something that tight.
And then there is the beauty products the site suggested. When I buy lotion, I look for diabetic care and unscented. I completely avoid bath bombs and lotions with any kind of sent. I barely tolerate scents in my body wash. And I would never buy any of those highly scented products simply because I can’t use them around my niece (even if I haven’t been around her in years).
The site also suggested makeup kits, makeup brush sets, and perfume.
The only perfumes I’ve ever liked the scent of was one meant for children (when I was a child) and one called, “Orchid” which I had received as a gift as a young adult. The only problem is I don’t think the stuff from my childhood is made anymore, because I haven’t seen in stores since then, and the other stuff is Hawaiian and expensive. Let alone that I do have niece who is highly allergic to the smell of most perfumes and lotions.
Okay, maybe she wouldn’t be to “Orchid” because that is vanilla, since the Orchid is where the vanilla seed comes from, but still, the perfume is ultra expensive. And why bother? It’s not like I want to attract a man.
All and all, the app showed me a master list of what not to get me for a present and, as I already said, afforded me no means to put in interests or hobbies, ergo, the list was useless.
I mean that list wouldn’t even have worked for Konnie because while it did have some jewelry on it, all of it was glittery and gaudy. Chunky gold stuff that might be all the rage but hardly correct for someone like Konnie. I’m fairly sure Konnie would say, “No thank you,” to that kind of attention catching attire as much as I would.
I just cannot fathom how anyone could think they can categorize the entire human race by only age and gender and still produce the perfect gift idea for every individual! I mean Konnie and I are identical twins, but what would be perfect gift for her, might just bomb with me.
Actually, that has happened.
Way back in college, my roommate, knowing my birthday was coming up wanted me to go window shopping with her. I didn’t know it at the time, but she wanted to see what I liked to get an idea of what to buy me as a gift.
At one point during that spree, I came upon a display of cameo jewelry, which I stopped to inspect, thinking I needed to return on my next payday to buy one for Konnie for our birthday. My roommate gifted me one of those things.
Yeah, that didn’t go over so well. I have never cared for those things. Konnie, at least back then, adored them.
And that’s because no two people are exactly alike, even if they are the same age and gender, even if they are twins. To even assume all you need to find the perfect gift is age and gender, is ridiculous to umpteenth power!
Anyway, happy writing, everyone!
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