How to find the perfect gift for your best friend

1) Ask her what she wants. This step will give you a place to start if you don't have any ideas of your own.

2) Give her something you can enjoy together, such as tickets to a play or a special museum exhibit.

3) Choose a gift basket full of her favourite foods, teas, coffees or soaps and body lotions.

4) Give a gift certificate for a pampering day at a spa, or arrange for a makeove, manicure or pedicure.

5) Buy a collection of scented aromatherapy candles or a fragrance gift pack, if you know what perfume she wears.

6) Give golf or tennis lessons.

7) Organise all the photos you've taken together over the years and put them in a frame or album.

8) Give elegant but simple jewellery; a silver bracelet, a stylish pin or a pair of gold studs.

9) Buy a really good bottle of wine and some wine glasses or splurge on the best chocolate.

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