What is your gift-giving style?
I have a few guesses, and I hope some of you can either confirm or correct for me...
As SJs, of course, an ISFJ never forgets a birthday or Christmas or other special days. Their calendars are marked with the birthdays of everyone they care about, and if it's someone who isn't "important" enough to require a gift, the ISFJ will at least send a card. If for some reason the card or gift is late, the ISFJ will feel terrible about it.
ISFJs love making gifts for the people they care for. They'd rather give a handmade gift "from the heart" than something factory-made out of a store. They put a lot of time and love into these hand-made gifts, and are deeply hurt if they feel their gift is not appreciated by the recipient.
My mother, who I suspect is an ISFJ, for years would make Christmas ornaments out of plastic canvas and yarn for every relative (one per household), close friend, and her kids' teachers. She'd start sometime in the Fall and have them all completed and sent out by the first half of December so the recipients could hang them on their Christmas trees. She did this without fail every year, until she finally gave up on the practice once my siblings and I were all in middle school and high school with multiple teachers, and instead started giving out homemade jam.
Also, how are you as a recipient? What kinds of gifts do you most like to receive, and when? How do you tend to react to a gift that you really like, or one that you really dislike?
I will be doing a similar post for the other personality types, too, just haven't gotten around to all of them yet...
I have a few guesses, and I hope some of you can either confirm or correct for me...
As SJs, of course, an ISFJ never forgets a birthday or Christmas or other special days. Their calendars are marked with the birthdays of everyone they care about, and if it's someone who isn't "important" enough to require a gift, the ISFJ will at least send a card. If for some reason the card or gift is late, the ISFJ will feel terrible about it.
ISFJs love making gifts for the people they care for. They'd rather give a handmade gift "from the heart" than something factory-made out of a store. They put a lot of time and love into these hand-made gifts, and are deeply hurt if they feel their gift is not appreciated by the recipient.
My mother, who I suspect is an ISFJ, for years would make Christmas ornaments out of plastic canvas and yarn for every relative (one per household), close friend, and her kids' teachers. She'd start sometime in the Fall and have them all completed and sent out by the first half of December so the recipients could hang them on their Christmas trees. She did this without fail every year, until she finally gave up on the practice once my siblings and I were all in middle school and high school with multiple teachers, and instead started giving out homemade jam.
Also, how are you as a recipient? What kinds of gifts do you most like to receive, and when? How do you tend to react to a gift that you really like, or one that you really dislike?
I will be doing a similar post for the other personality types, too, just haven't gotten around to all of them yet...