Thank you all for your replies. Let me clear a few things up.

First, I feel silly that I misspelled Claus in the thread title! DOH!
But that's not the important thing I would like to clear up.

Fzzy, I'm really not trying to put generalities into something that is so personal. In fact, what I'm REALLY trying to do is dismiss the generalities that many people seem to have with gift giving. When I asked for generalities, I'm only trying to gather the generalities that people believe. I, myself, tend to hold the belief that DB has about things being too commercialized and that the real gift is time with those you love. The whole purpose of the piece is to try to explain that point of view.

Lixy, sorry if I made things sound sexist. I'm really not a sexist person. I guess I should've explained that most of the writing I do is geared toward the guys. That's why the questions were slanted. The piece will be written for guys for the purpose I mentioned above - to explain the point of view that stressing over buying the perfect gift is silly because that's not what our ladies believe is REALLY important, anyway. And you are right, this is a discussion forum moreso than a place for me to gather specific information for my writing. So, I definitely should've asked the question of everyone and not just the guys to get the information I was looking for to include in my writing. I apologize and will be careful not to do that again in the future.

I should've explained myself better in the original post. Sorry for the confusion.

Thank you all for your responses.