Nobody is impossible to buy for
People often say someone is impossible to buy for when what they really mean is that this person already owns most normal things.
They have the clothes they like. They have the gadgets they want. Their home is already full of objects that make sense. At that point, gifting becomes strangely difficult because the obvious categories stop being useful.
But if you watch closely, people like this still react strongly to certain things. Not bigger things. Not necessarily expensive things. Just things with personality.
A strange ceramic object. An unusual print. Something handmade that feels slightly different from everything else they own. A gift like that lands differently because it feels chosen, not defaulted.
The necessary shift in thinking
Stop thinking in categories and start thinking in taste.
The best gift for someone who already has everything often feels less like a practical solution and more like a small discovery. Something they would never have searched for themselves, but instantly recognise as fitting them.
Which is why these people are not really hard to buy for. It is just that usefulness matters less, and character matters more.