Where Will it Live?

Ask before buying

No matter what time of year, buying things can add chaos to your home. Gift-giving and gift-receiving times can expedite the process though. So as you are preparing for birthdays or holidays or end-of-the-years, ask yourself this question:

“Where will it live?”

Where will it live?

You give gifts to people who live inside your home and outside your home. The question will be the same but the answers will be different.

Gifts in your own home

The easiest way to come to an answer to this question is to have already found homes for everything else in your house. Do the work ahead of time to make the decisions later pretty simple. When everything else has a home, you can envision where the new items will live. Or you will realize that you don’t have room for that item or that you don’t need that item because you already have all you need.

Gifts outside of your home

Gift-giving has become a thing we do without thought. Your child has a teacher (or 4) so you give them a gift. You search online for “best gifts for teachers” and choose something from the list that looks thoughtful, like a mug with a coffee gift card and a cute saying. This is where asking the question “where will it live?” will help you to be a more thoughtful gift giver. Where will that mug live? Now, you won’t actually know this answer for all of the people in your life but the thought here is to think for the other person. While the thought may count, make sure you think about it.