To begin: Fancy pens.
While this is typically more often a graduation gift, I have received it as a holiday present as well, and quite honestly - I need to get this out of my system.
Even if it was for the recent high school or college grad, said graduate needs a high-end writing implement like you don't need a kick in the teeth if you buy them one.
If this looks like something you'd consider a good gift to give,
you suck.
Let me level with you: If the person's going on to be somebody important and "need" a high-end pen to draft important documents, they're going to have ample opportunity to buy one with their high-end income and/or office budget. If the person's instead going on to a career (at least initially) of give-or-take mediocrity (or worse), your gift is just reminding them that they didn't amount to something -- see, they don't have any good reason to use that fancy pen while they flip burgers through undergrad or have problems finding an entry-level mail clerk position because it's a freaking recession and they could probably have used that $25+ that you spent on a fancy pen to buy something to eat that they didn't have to flip themselves. They oughta be flipping you instead. Flipping you off that is.
If you buy someone a fancy pen, you are a godawful human being.
If the recipient is an artist, it's still no excuse - unless you know specifically that they currently use, and need, the exact type of pen you bought them.
If it's a bad gift for graduation, where it's more traditionally accepted, then please rest assured that throughout the rest of the year it continues to be an even worse BAD GIFT IDEA.
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