How to Manage a Holiday Gift List in 2022

Olatowun Candide-Johnson Founder and chief executive of Gaia Africa; Lagos, Nigeria Buying smaller, more useful gifts like books and planners for family members is Ms. Candide-Johnson’s gifting strategy this year as, she said, “the naira is shaky” and she has less disposable income than in the past. “This time it’s not going to just be,…

Unpacking the Psychology of Gift-Giving

Pick up not only on people’s joys and delights but also on their burdens and aggravations, and think of gifts that might alleviate those things. If they complain about never having enough free time, steer clear of time-consuming gifts like jigsaw puzzles or 1,000-page books. Instead, think about time savers, such as a robot vacuum…

Who’s Afraid of a Lovely Fern?

Tom let my sniping pass, one way we’ve learned to sustain our 25-year marriage. Another is making sacrifices: large ones like moving for a spouse’s job and small ones like doing a dirty chore to make a partner happy. But my anxiety remained. As I drove, Tom described a story he had read that morning…