People who give gifts do it more for personal satisfaction than to please the person they plan to gift. I say this from experience in gift giving, although there are nuances; if I don’t know exactly what the person I’m giving to wants, I might give them money instead.

This year I was able to give a bottle of expensive whiskey to my father. I was 100% sure he was going to love it even without having asked him, so it was no problem. With my mother, on the other hand, I preferred to give her money on both her birthday and Mother’s Day, because she is very changeable and one day she wants one thing and the next another, so it’s better for her to buy what she wants at the time.

And me? Well, satisfied to have made them both happy.