Are Gift Baskets Better Than Flowers?
There are two very common gifts that are given on Mother’s day and they are gift baskets and flowers. They both have their own appeal and support. People who prefer gift baskets do so because they think that flowers will inevitably die and somehow or the other that doesn’t really translate in to ‘I love you mom’. People who prefer flowers do so because flowers are supposed to say it all, whether it’s a birthday, Valentine’s Day or mothers day, flowers are the gift to give. There’s something wrong with the reasoning behind giving flowers as mothers day gifts. People give flowers because they’re supposed to be ‘The’ gift to give. It’s widely perceived that flowers, carnations to be precise, are the symbolic mother’s day gift when in reality, Anna Jarvis actually boycotted the holiday when flower companies began turning it in to a corporate holiday. Then there’s the variety available when buying flowers. There may be different kinds of flowers but they really are still flowers and there i
