Expectations of holidays are always stirring and everyone feels saturated with some magic sentiments and emotions. Gift is an inseparable part of any holiday and shares a good half of all holiday expectations and high spirits. We skim through the stores with grandiose ideas in our minds and at the same time expect someone do the same for us.

Expectations, sentiments and high spirits… And here it is, long-awaited celebration, filled with pleasures, flower aromas and culinary delicacies! Although gifts can be selected according to one’s temper, character and appearance, holiday gift ideas are also diverse. Some gifts are more suitable for New Year Day, while others give more pleasure when received on the Fool’s Day.

What are your ideas about long-awaited celebration? If there is still none, let me supply you with several successful and all-prize perspectives.

Christmas Day is traditionally associated with Santa Clause (Farther Frost in Russia) and dream realizations. Perhaps, Christmas Day gift is the major gift of the year. Hence, in France people customarily present each other with jewelry gifts, while the gift received on Christmas Day serves as a kind of charm or mascot.

Nevertheless, Christmas Day is the holiday when you can give your sweetheart anything you want from small pretty keepsakes to expensive earrings. But the main criteria for Christmas gift selection is its meaningfulness, in other words, the gift must be an expressive sign of your attitude and relationship, a good reminder of the giver.

It is not a custom to give flowers and perfume for Christmas. As for keepsakes and toys, tastefully designed statuettes, collages made of dry flowers, satin, velvet and intricate ribbons, ceramic and china vases make good Christmas gifts.

Then the New Year Day comes… You are far away from each other but it is easy to imagine that there is a sweet-scented New Year tree in her room, alight candles and odoriferous tangerines on the table. New Year Day is connected in our mind with “the beginning of new life”, realization of dreams, wishes and hopes. That’s why to fulfill the dream of your mate on the eve of New Year is the best gift. What is her dream or cherished wish?

We also celebrate Old New Year on the night of January 14 in Russia, thus we have two New Year Days each year. The tradition to celebrate Old New Year was established due to the following historic events.

In 45 B.C. ancient Rome emperor Julius Caesar introduced new system of chronology, which was called Julius Calendar and was extensively used in ancient Russia. However, in 1582 Rome Pope Gregory the 13th introduced more efficient calendar, called Gregory Calendar. This idea did not find popularity in Russia and people used Julius Calendar until the revolution of 1918, when Gregory Calendar was legitimated. Nevertheless, the tradition to celebrate New Year Day according to ancient Julius Calendar has been preserved until today.

As for traditional gifts for Old New Year, they are not especially serious but rather symbolic. Medallions, symbolic keepsakes, originally designed photo albums or frames, relaxation oscillators in forms of keepsakes, aromatic candles hinting at intimate climate you await, silk slippers presumed to look perfect on her tender and elegant feet are some of excellent Old New Year gifts.

St Valentine’s Day is a traditional holiday of happy couples in love. Thus, the gifts should express your most intimate feelings and can range from elegant underwear to other love “belongings”. Valentine card is an inseparable part of St Valentine’s gift, while you may send your gift anonymously as to add an intrigue to your love message.

In fact, there are several legends concerning St Valentine’s Day tradition, but all of them are shrouded in romance and mystery. According to the most widespread legend, Valentine was a young Christian priest who married Roman legionnaires despite of the edict issued by the Roman Emperor Claudius the Second that prohibited legionnaires to get married.

The priest was imprisoned and condemned to death. While he was spending his last days in prison, the warder’s blind daughter fell in love with him. As a priest vowing celibacy, Valentine could not answer the girl’s feelings, but sent her a touching message on the eve of his capital punishment. According to other variant of the story, Valentine also fell in love with the girl and even healed her blindness before his death.

Women’s Day is an international holiday celebrated on March 8. Naturally, this day serves to express all your appreciation and unreserved admiration, your care and unlimited attention. Nevertheless, the gift can be simple or intricate, moderately priced or expensive, original or exclusive. For some reason, women are used to judge about men’s attitude just on this very Women’s Day. Hence, you will not be appreciated if you are caught in a lack of creativity on this holiday.

And of course, one should not forget about the day of unrestrained laughter and revelry. The Fool’s Day is a holiday celebrated in many countries and Russia is not an exception. For our luck, witty and flippant gifts are sold in abundance. Just don’t go too far with humor.

And finally, birthday of your sweetheart. Of course, for every person, his or her birthday is the most important holiday amidst all others. Although some people say, they do not like their birthday because it make them approach to older age with every year to come, this day is the only day in a year when we speculate on things we have done and on those that are to be done, analyze the past and peer into the future.

The fact is that everyone on his birthday feels somehow special and his emotions and sentiments are so unexpected and unstable that may range from tons of cheers to numerous touches of unexplained melancholy.

No doubt, birthday gifts must be most original and generous. At the same time, birthday gift must express your soul’s warmth, joyful feelings of love and gratitude, generosity of optimistic wishes. Flowers is the best complement to every birthday gift. Every woman is unrepeatable and unique and it is important to select a gift that would emphasize her individuality and uniqueness.

In addition, birthday gift is often associated with something childish, joyful and surprising and you may select birthday gift according to these criteria because it is a special pleasure to receive a birthday gift that reminds happy childhood days.

Suppose, that’s enough about gifts and holidays, your imagination will do the rest.