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Sometimes it just hits you: it's 5:00 pm and you check your email one more time before you leave your office to see a reminder that today is your wife's birth day. What are you going to do? It's too late to go to the mall or the jeweler to pick something for your wife. And if you don't she'll never forgive you, not matter how many times she says she does.
Your only option now is to buy something online the doesn't need shipping. Something you pay for online and it's yours now. This puts all the physical gift ideas aside, sorry Amazon! So here are 5 items you can buy online and you can either print them or get them forwarded to your wife's email and you're done.
1. Personal website.
The process of buying a domain name with your wife's name in it could take you 3-5 minutes if your wife's name is not that common. But this can't be a stand alone gift because it only costs around $10 per year. Now you need to build a website. If you already have hosting just host it for her and install Wordpress and make a mail box that looks neat, like her name@her name.com. That's it, you're good to go home. Even if you are still going to buy hosting, it costs like $40/year with some companies and they even give you the domain for free. It's even faster to do it this way.
2. A gift card
You know your wife and you know her favorite stores. Go online to that store and order a gift card. You'll receive an email upon payment that includes your gift card details. Print it, put it in an envelope and present it to your wife with a box of chocolate.
3. A vacation
Search your favorite search engine for a vacation package, if you can go that far, and buy one to her favorite destination. Again the reservation, put it in an envelope, and present it with the same box of chocolate above.
4. A magazine subscription
If you know your wife is obsessed about a certain magazine you can go to the website of that magazine and buy her a subscription. Print it and follow the instructions above.
5. Stocks
But only if you know what you are doing and have the experience to decide which stocks to buy know for the long term investment. And also you need to remember to buy the gift during the working hours and not at 5:00 pm as in the above scenario. This one might not suit all wives, but you know your wife will appreciate the investment then go ahead and do it, it will be more meaningful than a diamond ring.
