Finrod Ghennyn Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Dear Residents, I am very interested to hear what you would give, or envy to receive most as a gift on SL-occasions.For this poll, take it a friend of yours is having his birthday.Options could be:1. An prim bouquet of flowers.2. An overpriced prefab structure.3. A self-build meaningfull personal item.4. Some lindens and a tacky landmark.Ofcourse youre free to share any experiences/gifts you have ever given away. Feel free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Muni Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 A notecard with my feelings in her/his birthday. Or a phone call if that is possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finrod Ghennyn Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 I'd prefer the call above a notecard, because somehow with cards of any type i have the feeling its all a 'standard' text. I guess its a personal thing, words dont mean that much too me unless i hear them in a way of voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Muni Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Of course. But I don't have the telephone number of all my SL friends. And you are asking for a GIFT: telephone (or chat, or SL voice) + gift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nacy Nightfire Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 It really depends on the recipient, but I'd probably give them a decorated box that when they click it it says "Happy Birthday" in particles, and exactly when they click it I'd pass them some lindens. People love to shop in SL. If you buy something it just goes into their inventory. With Lindens they can amuse themselves in SL spending it, or they can have the pleasure of gifting it away so someone needy, they can use it for tipping at a club or if they take classes or the can gift themself warm feelings by donating the $L gift to a SL charity if they so desire. Depending on how generous you feel, they call do all of these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finrod Ghennyn Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 You could use the voice communications on SL, i wouldnt go for paying 5$ a minute for calling internationally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo Yardley Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I'd give someone a free week of rent in a sim I loved. Something like that, give them an experience in stead of an object Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janelle Darkstone Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Friendship. When everything else is gone and the servers are unplugged and dormant, real life friendship still remains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melita Magic Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Something they would actually want? If you are a friend you should know that. Otherwise this is an acquaintance you are talking about. In which case? Flowers, and/or handmade gift, and/or Gift card and landmark. By the way, what is an ovenpriced item? Something that's been burnt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finrod Ghennyn Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 overpriced* its been corrected thankyou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melita Magic Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Finrod Ghennyn wrote: overpriced* its been corrected thankyou Sorry I had to josh with you a little. I figured you could take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveAngeL Lyre Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Assuming that he/she a close friend, something i know that he/she would love to buy and my best wishes. A Meeroo? An outfit? Shoes? Depends... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finrod Ghennyn Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 I didnt mean to cut you off the curve, i can take a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elisheva Sopwith Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 A friend once gave me something called Designer Handbag. I attached it and of course it was a device that immediately sent my av flying into the stratosphere. Of course, I went around giving it to everyone else after that. I should really have smelled a rat when something called Designer Handbag is all perms. I've had some more genuinely beautiful and generous gifts (generally clothes and rp tools), but this was definitely the funniest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melita Magic Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I see that. Finrod Ghennyn wrote: i can take a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finrod Ghennyn Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Hehehehe, dont get me started about my first home i ever placed down on a 512m² lot. I got about 3 skydive chairs. Hrrrrrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillon Levenque Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I would always try to find something I know they'll like as a first choice but that's as hard to do in Second Life as it is in Real Life. We've all gotten gifts that matched the 'idea' of what we wanted but fell short of pleasing us. I've given things I've bought that I thought were really beautiful or really clever. I do give people cards but they're always cards I've written myself (I usally find a google image that looks like the 'notepaper' to match the subject and then add text; makes it look like a printed card, to me anyway) and then import it as a texture). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melita Magic Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Dillon Levenque wrote: I do give people cards but they're always cards I've written myself (I usally find a google image that looks like the 'notepaper' to match the subject and then add text; makes it look like a printed card, to me anyway) and then import it as a texture). That's a lovely idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elisheva Sopwith Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Finrod Ghennyn wrote: Hehehehe, dont get me started about my first home i ever placed down on a 512m² lot. I got about 3 skydive chairs. Hrrrrrrrr And the Surprising Toilet. That's another classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finrod Ghennyn Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Hehehehe gotta love those things that make you feel silly for laughing at your computerscreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Hickman Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I always liked those custom-made cards that you wear, and they attach to your HUD and are scripted to turn pages. Since it's a modifiable object to give, one can really put some beautiful graphics and fancy print along with your custom message, instead of the lame old text that you get with notecards. There are freebie blank books and magazines that also work fairly well. I do enjoy (giving and recieving) the gifts of thought and gesture much more so than anything to do with money or material items. The store cards and gifted purchases just feel like a last-minute RL Wal-Mart card with little forethought to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nacy Nightfire Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Or you could give them the "thriller" and the "lollypop lollypop" gestures and agree to do a line dance with them and be photographed for posterier, err..I mean posterity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayalily Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 This is a good question. If it's a special person, I'd have to keep that a secret because it's between me and them. Something true about gifts in RL is that we tend to actually give gifts we would like to receive ourselves. And, since I love flowers, teddy bears and dolls in RL, along with jewelry and fashion... I'd probably share something I love. But that wouldn't work for a guy. I usually give my RL guy CD's or music books because music is his hobby and passion. Men are harder to give gifts too. I usually give the men in my life gift cards because I think men are hard to buy for. So, what gifts do you think are good to give a man? I'm curious. Personally, for me, as a women in both RL and SL, I'd love jewelry the most I think. I also collect jewelry in RL. It's one of my passions. I have been handing out some free friendship bears to some avatars AND enjoying that and made a great friend by doing that, who also collects teddy bears in RL and she put it in her SL home. I was very touched that she loved it so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Danube Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 I few months back, I was using the looprez script to create my first hair. I would like to gift this to Randall Ahren, my friend, for his next coming birthday. :matte-motes-asleep: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Ahren Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Why thank you. I was hoping for something more of an adult nature involving you and pose balls <evil green>. My birthday is many months from now, when the earth is approximately on the opposite side of the sun. I was born deep in the heart of winter, when the nights are long and boring. What type of hair do you suggest I rezz? I'm rather fond of the short messy look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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