Gifts for the person who has everything
Someone who buys what they want as soon as they want it is genuinely hard to shop for, and the usual response — spending more — makes it worse. They can outspend you, so competing on price is a game you have already lost.
The gap is almost always a hobby they have talked about and not started. Buying the first step of something is a real gift to this person, because the barrier was never money; it was the deciding. The other reliable route is consumable and excellent, which cannot be stockpiled.
Beginner Telescope
around $130The clearest example of buying the first step. Nobody who has vaguely wanted to try this has bought one.
Search for this on Amazon ↗Belt-Drive Record Player
around $150Works when there is already a shelf of records nobody plays.
Search for this on Amazon ↗Wooden Chess Set
around $58An object rather than a device, which is scarce for someone with a lot of devices.
Search for this on Amazon ↗Watercolour Paint Set
around $36Low stakes, low cost, and it gives them permission to be bad at something.
Search for this on Amazon ↗Speciality Coffee Sampler
around $35Consumable and specific, so it cannot join the pile of things they already own.
Search for this on Amazon ↗Cocktail Making Set
around $45For a good host. Aimed at what they do for other people rather than at them.
Search for this on Amazon ↗Sourdough Starter Kit
around $42Demands time rather than money, which is the resource they are actually short of.
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This is the person whose one useful hint arrives in April and is gone by May. Bodhi is built around catching exactly that: text it in when it is said, and it is on the list months later.