Monday, March 29, 2010

Celebrate the Wonderful Journey with 50th Wedding Anniversary Gifts


For any married couple, the completion of fifty years of conjugal journey is akin to touching a milestone. Looking back one may have felt a pang how the years have glided by. The nitty-gritty of your marriage ceremony was etched into your memory for all and good and you can vividly remember even the small incidents of that day. The long harmonious journey needs to be celebrated in a very special way and along with it you would also love to set aside a collection of beautiful 50th wedding anniversary gifts for your life partner and leave her surprised with the elegant charm of the items.

You feel like slipping into trouble while shopping for gifts on the eve of every anniversary. This time the whole affair has taken to a serious turn, after all it is going to be a big celebration. You are not stronger enough to search the market in search of suitable gifts at length. So, it is better to decide upon the fascinating 50th wedding anniversary gifts in tune with your wife’s choice and then set out of home to buy it from the market.

Women have eternal affinity for jewelry especially for the golden items. In keeping with the theme of the golden jubilee celebration you may present her any golden ornaments. Though there is no hard and fast rule that you have to stick to the yellowish metal only. You may comfortably shift to the shining diamond or platinum items too. It depends upon you what you prefer to buy-ear ring, pendent, bracelet or any other item. Taking shining picks as 50th wedding anniversary gifts may cut hole in your pocket, but you will not surely yelp at that to commemorate such a wonderful journey.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Books with Inspirational Thoughts are the Best Picks as 18th Birthday Gifts


It is the age of eighteen years when a youth can think of construction over destruction, hope over despair and freedom over all restraints. It is a period to mark the irresistible strength of youth who have all the potentialities to poleax at the very root of the prevailing iniquitous political system, to uproot the social evils and inane customs and rekindle the hope of justice that has been neglected for so many years. To honor this event, 18th birthday gifts should epitomize the out-of-the-box thinking.

Unique ideas need not be morphed into extravagant moulds. Even a trifling item can slip into unique attire if imaginative power knows no boundary to stumble at. A book is always said to be one’s best friend. Now when you step into a bookstore, the sight of fascinating covers of the books is sure to leave you puzzled. Do all of them make perfect 18th birthday gifts? Of course, not. Some of them are the best for creative minds while some others are for those who are overwhelmed by romantic or detective stories.

But for 18th birthday gifts, even story books should carry special messages to the young minds. I would love to recommend “The Old Man and the Sea” by the distinguished writer Earnest Hemingway. The book earned him the Nobel Prize. The book is not voluminous but very thin in shape. The story narrates the struggles of a fisherman to earn a living for his survival.

For several days, the man met failure of his attempts as he could not even make a single catch. But henever parted with his never-say-die attitude. Indomitable was his spirit and unbending was his zeal. One day he promised himself not to go back without capturing a quarry. He went out with foods and drinking water. He sailed far away and hooked a big fish. He had to struggle a lot to bring it at bay. But all his hard work went in vain as a flock of ferocious sharks devoured the fish to the morsel. However, the story concludes with the triumph of the man whose indefatigable spirit is a lesson for all. Such an inspirational book is a jewel in the pile of 18th birthday gifts.