You know that person. The one who has everything. Everybody sweats it out when it’s time to get them a gift, because, they just seem impossible to shop for!

And now it’s your turn, and you’re just as much at a loss for what to get them as anyone else.

Don’t worry so much! It’s completely normal to get nervous or freeze up when shopping for a difficult gift. Maybe you don’t know the person that well. Or, maybe it’s a gift for your boss, or your in-laws, or someone you just don’t want to risk offending!

Enter the perfect, most conveniently easy to buy way of giving a gift: the gift card. A gift card can be anything, from a certificate to dine out at your favorite restaurant, to tickets to travel to an awesome vacation spot, to a virtual wallet to spend at the mall.

If you’re sending a gift to someone far away, gift cards are an even better gift because in that case, you won’t have to deal with bulky wrapping and shipping fees and you won’t be wondering if the package is going to get lost in the mail. You just slip the little card into a nice envelope and there it goes! There are even tiny little gift card bows you can buy, which fit into the envelope, aren’t bulky and make the card look like a real tiny present.

Does that mean that gift cards are only for people you don’t know that well, or a thoughtless lazy gift? Far from it! If you know someone very well or even intimately, a gift card can then become an expression of that intimacy if you pick the right one. Imagine giving your sister or your girlfriend free rein to spend $500 at their favorite department store. Genius!

Every single major credit card company, from Visa to mastercard to american express to discover, offers gift cards which can be used to purchase pretty much anything from anywhere. Not only that, but they have no expiration dates, and can be used whenever.

Another excellent type of gift card to give is gas cards! With today’s gas prices and long-distance commuting, having a nice little card to get gas from for free is anyone’s dream.

This site is stocked full of gift card and gift certificate ideas from someone who uses them often and to great effect. I hope that as you look through it, you can come up with lots of ideas of your own to leverage the power of gift cards to make an easy, convenient, yet meaningful gift for someone you love.