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Problem Presents came out of that frequent need to answer the question “what on earth am I going to get them this time?” It gets asked by men and by women, and can invoke despair on a regular basis!
So after years of tracking down great gifts, and coming up with ideas for great products, for some of the UK's top retailers, including The Body Shop and Boots, and, apparently, a slightly annoying habit of tracking down great gifts, I decided to put all the good stuff together, online, for us all to get at really quick.
This is a family affair though, as we have been receivers and givers of great, and definitely not so great gifts, for some time. This is all of us:
Helen
Role: Chief tracker of great gifts, avoider of real tat and writer and editor-in-chief.
Greatest gift received: Other than our lovely daughter, I think the prized Be-Ro recipe book, which is still going strong for a third generation of family baking sessions.
Worst gift received: Quite definitely the awful, tinsel wig from Sean one Christmas. The Christmas just after I had given birth. The Christmas when I was just ever so slightly hormonal. Obviously, never received another one.
Best gift given: Sean's 40th, a surprise flying lesson in a WWII bomber. The real surprise being the aerobatics. And how green Sean went.
Most hoping for: a box from Astley Clarke, preferably with something inside it. Failing that, a selection box from A Quarter Of.
Sean
Role: Top gadget guy and arbiter of all things male, and edible. Chief face puller when something doesn't make the grade.
Greatest gift received: Other than the daughter, and the flying lesson, would have to be Helen admitting defeat and buying me The Best of Status Quo.
Worst gift received: A mouse trap. For my third floor flat. From my father.
Best gift given: Still thinking about this one. But guess it wasn't a tinsel wig.
Most hoping for: a pair of handmade shotguns from Holland & Holland. Failing that, a few wins for Wales (Editors note, both as unlikely as each other I feel).
Imogen (she's the one on the left)
Role: To be the biggest distraction, biggest mess maker and chief laughter maker
Greatest gift received: Chocolate
Worst gift received: Socks
Best gift given: Sleeping through till 8am on a Saturday
Most hoping for: Chocolate and a real goldfish
Between us, we take the hard work out of tracking down unique gifts for every occasion...birthday, Christmas, wedding anniversary, moving house, getting married or even just getting out of the doghouse, we've looked for something for all of them.
And we make it easy.
Basically, see it, click it, get it.
Like the look of something? Click the picture or the link and you'll be right where you need to be to have it winging its way to you and your beloved in no time at all. No remembering URLs or printing things out for later. If it’s not online, it’s pretty much not on here, unless they have made offlline ordering so very simple anyone could do it.
We only put stuff on here that we love, and that we are pretty sure will get a great response from your beloved. If we don’t love it, and secretly want to own it, or send it as a great present, then it’s not on here. We don’t have advertisers, and no one pays to be on here.
Got a particular present problem you need solving? Drop us an email with a few details and we’ll try to help.
Got something in particular you want to try and get them, and can’t track it down? Drop us a note and see if we have an answer.
And if you got them something that we recommended, then we’d love to hear what the response was.
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