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Is it okay to give a gift card or gift certificate instead of a specific gift?

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Host: Is it okay to give a gift card or a gift certificate?

Nancy Mitchell: Absolutely, in some cases you do not know a person well enough to know what their interests are, you also maybe on a limited budget, gift card is wonderful especially for young people. People love to be able to select the gift that they really want. Here is how you personalize it, you write a note. In the note you say how much you appreciate their friendship, how much you appreciate whatever they have done for you, how much you appreciate having them in the neighborhood, whatever the relationship is, you personalize it with a note. But then it might say here is a card that I hope that you will spend in some way that makes you happy. Buy something that you really would like to have and think of me.

Expert: Nancy Mitchell

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Nancy R. Mitchell is an established protocol and etiquette consultant and advisor with more than 30 years of experience in the field. Currently, she is an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University, where she developed and teaches protocol courses to Event Management Certificate Program students in the School of Business and Public Management, and at Stratford University, Falls Church, VA. She serves More »