With about 50% of marriages ending in divorce, many people are opting to stay single longer. Some single ladies are working on advancing their career and becoming strong independent women before they are making a commitment to a life partner. On the other hand, some single women are ready and waiting for Mr. Right to come along and sweep them off their feet. If you have a single lady on your gift list, she’ll appreciate any of the gifts that are described below.

Single ladies everywhere will appreciate the hit song “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” by Beyonce. While Beyonce is no longer a single lady herself, she is definitely a talented performer who entertains women and men everywhere. This single is available as an audio CD on amazon.com for just $8.49.

Depending on how the single lady on your list feels about being single, you can choose from one of the following books. If she’d like to find love through an untraditional route, she might like The Love Magic Book: Potions for Passion and Recipes for Romance by Gillian Kemp. This hardcover book from amazon.com is $11.96 and is summarized as follows: “Here are spells for all the stages of a romance, from attracting love and influencing its course to keeping love alive and letting it go.” A similarly titled Simple Spells for Love: Ancient Practices for Emotional Fullfillment by Barrie Dolnick is described on amazon.com as “A modern-day guidebook for easy-to-cast spells and benevolent charms that can strengthen commitment and enhance romance.” This hardcover book is $12.00. There are two books to choose from that each received 4.5 stars from reviewers on Amazon’s website and but will appeal to different women (again, depending on how your recipient feels about being single.) Those titles are Revelations of a Single Woman: Loving the Life I didn’t Expect ($11.19 by Connally Gilliam) or The Single Girl’s Manifesta: Living in a Stupendously Superior Single State of Mind ($10.17 by Jerusha Steward). Think about your gift recipient’s state of mind and personality, peruse the product descriptions and reviews, and make a decision about which of the above titles the single lady will appreciate the most.

Women everywhere love to be pampered. Sometimes ladies wait to be pampered by the men in their life. For single ladies, this can mean months or years with no pampering whatsoever! Visit a store like Sephora, Victoria’s Secret or Bath and Body Works and purchase some lotions, body sprays, soaps and bath bubbles for the single lady on your list. Also, don’t be afraid to treat her to a massage or a manicure and pedicure. These are gifts that are appreciated no matter whose name appears as the gift giver on the card!

If the single lady on your list has a sense of humor, visit amazon.com and purchase a “Grow a Boyfriend” kit. This inexpensive gift (only .99!) features a tiny “boyfriend” that will grow up to 600 times its size when placed in water. Although the boyfriend might not have a lot of emotional support to give, he won’t ever say the wrong thing! A similarly hilarious gift (again, if the single lady has a sense of humor) is the “Magic Frog to Prince” kit. For $5.99 you can watch your recipient add water to the frog and watch it transform into her prince. As an added bonus, you might want to add the book, Frog or Prince? The Smart Girl’s Guide to Boyfriends by Kaycee Jane. (amazon.com, $29.95)

And finally, if the single lady on your list really wants to change her Facebook or MySpace status from “single” to “in a relationship” she might need to visit another website, such as Match.com or EHarmony.com. These are gifts that you should offer to “sponsor”, but that you should never sign her up for without her knowledge. Perhaps your suggestion and your offer to pay for a few months of membership is just the spark she needs to get back into the dating game.

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