Buying Her a Gift She Needs
No matter how badly she requires a vacuum cleaner, and no matter how meticulously you read Consumer Reports and other user reviews to find the perfect one, and no matter how much you spend on the Dyson DC-25 Blueprint Limited Edition — that’d be $530 — you’re still buying her a vacuum cleaner, and that will make her kind of sad.
Instead, do this: Send her something at work. Even if the FedEx bill costs more than the gift, she’ll love that you got her a gift for no reason — and that you did it in a way that brightened her workday and allowed her to open it in front of her coworkers.
