National Make a Gift Day 2023: Date, History and 5 Interesting Facts

National Make a Gift Day 2023: This is why we love National Make a Gift Day so much: we love giving unique things. This alternative holiday, which is held every year on December 3, encourages people to make gifts for their loved ones instead of buying them already made. This unique touch makes the gift more special and gives the whole process of giving a gift more meaning.

Making A Gift Day In History

It seems like giving and getting gifts has been done for a very long time. Even cavemen gave gifts, like teeth or stones, to people they liked, people who had done something good for the group, or other people they cared about.

Biologists think that giving gifts is an evolutionary way to show affection and establish authority. Giant apes, which are our closest animal relatives, are a great example of this. To attract women, men give them food as gifts.

In some past cultures, giving gifts was done in ways that were unique to that culture and time. For thousands of years, Native American groups held a feast called “potlatch” where people gave each other gifts. The Ancient Egyptians gave their pharaohs gifts like jewelry and different crops on their “birthdays,” which were really the day they were crowned, which was more important than their actual birthday. This is where the practice of giving gifts on birthdays comes from. In Egypt, they went one step further than giving gifts: they buried their dead with gifts to help them go to the afterlife quietly. Blowing out candles is another custom that comes from the Greeks. They thought that bad spirits would come to haunt someone they cared about on their birthday, so they lit candles and blew them out, asking the gods to keep the birthday person safe.

During the Middle Ages, almost everyone gave and received gifts. More and more, love gifts were given. At that time, another odd gift was the dowry, which a man gave to the father of his future bride in exchange for his daughter’s hand in marriage.

By the 19th century, cheaper manufacturing costs had made mass-produced goods easy to find and reasonable. As a result, more gifts were given all over the world. Giving gifts is commonplace these days, and across countries, gifts are a common way to show love, affection, and respect.

Even though we’re still researching this day’s history, beginning, and founder(s), we think it was chosen to happen in December, when more gifts are given than at any other time of the year.

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What To Do On National Make A Gift Day

Do your own gift-giving.

Is the birthday of a close friend coming up? Are you not sure what to get your brother for Christmas? Try your hand at making a unique gift yourself. Help yourself with movies and guides online, then let your imagination run wild.

Throw a party where people can make gifts.

Get everyone in the family to make gifts for each other for holidays or just because.

Pick up a new skill

You might not always be very artistic, or you might not be very good with a glue gun. At this point, you should pick up a new hobby and get good at personalizing your gifts. We can’t wait to see what you make!

5 Cool Facts About Giving Gift Ideas Around The World

Red is very important to China.

People believe that gifts wrapped in red paper will bring them luck.

Gifts for an Italian wedding

At Italian weddings, guests buy pieces of the groom’s tie as gifts. The money from these sales goes to the bride as a sign of their new life together.

On a Russian birthday, everyone gets a gift.

In one custom, gifts are hung on a clothesline so that every child at the party, not just the birthday child or girl, can pick out a gift to take home.

Indians and numbers with an odd

Indians like odd numbers better than even ones when giving money or gifts, like $11 instead of $10.

Giving gifts in Arab culture

No matter if they know the host or not, people bring gifts with them when they are asked to a regular party at their house.

Make A Gift Day: Why We Love It

We let our imagination run wild.

Everyone is encouraged to use their own creativity to make a unique gift for a loved one. This could even spark a skill for crafts and making gifts that you didn’t know you had before.

You can’t say “love” better than from the heart.

If the gifts are poorly wrapped or made, the person who receives them will still know how much you value them because they will see how much time and work went into making them.

It means more when you make the gift yourself.

Things you can buy at the store are the easy choice. Starting from scratch when making a gift is much harder, and not just because you are new to this. Gifts that are made by hand are more valuable because they take more time, imagination, and love to make.

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