{"id":162232,"date":"2025-11-27T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162232\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:36:09","slug":"stuck-for-christmas-present-ideas-for-moody-teens-and-tricky-mothers-in-law-we-asked-irelands-personal-shoppers-for-their-trusty-go-to-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162232\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck for Christmas present ideas for moody teens and tricky mothers-in-law? We asked Ireland\u2019s personal shoppers for their trusty go-to gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFrom books to wines, these personal shopping and gifting experts have some clever ideas in some of the most tricky-to-buy-for categories\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"How do you express your gratitude for the hard-to-please mother-in-law who did after all raise your beloved? Image: Clare Meredith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mg Personal Shoppers guide_online.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">How do you express your gratitude for the hard-to-please mother-in-law who did after all raise your beloved? Image: Clare Meredith<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s usually at least one person on your Christmas list that you really have to wrack your brains to find a good present for. It only gets harder every year, so to ease the challenge, we asked a selection of personal shopping and gifting experts for clever ideas in some of the most tricky-to-buy-for categories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Johanna Dooley, personal shopper at Kildare Village, suggests livening up a dreary January or February with an experience gift. \u201cMaybe a concert ticket, a night at the Hoxton hotel, a whiskey tasting or even a personal shopping experience,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From books to wines, these personal shopping and gifting experts have some clever ideas in some of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9484,93,61,60,6361,86771],"class_list":["post-162232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-christmas","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-meadhbh-mcgrath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}