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The Thirty Seconds Before the Gift Matter Almost as Much as the Gift Itself
The Box I Wasn't Proud Of We once shipped 77 individually illustrated tumblers in four days, for a Women's Day gifting project — each one hand-drawn, each one paired with a matching polaroid, each box labelled with the name of...
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Four People, Four Completely Different Jobs, One Gifting Season
The List I Was Dreading Last festival season, my gifting list had exactly four people on it, and each one worked in a completely different world: my cousin, a doctor doing back-to-back hospital shifts; my old school friend, a teacher...
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The Certificate Went Straight Into a Drawer. I Wanted to Try Something Different.
Five Years, One Printed Certificate Our HR system automatically flags work anniversaries, and for years the response was identical regardless of who hit the milestone or how significant the number was: a printed certificate with the company logo, a generic...
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One Gift Wasn't Enough to Say What I Actually Meant
The Gift I Kept Adding To When my best friend got married, I sat down to order a single gift — something considered, something that would properly mark the occasion. I picked an Illustrated Floating Frame of the two of...
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My Father Owns Everything He Could Reasonably Want. What Do You Get That Man?
The Man Who Buys Himself Whatever He Wants My father is sixty-two, financially comfortable, and has spent the last decade buying himself pretty much anything he reasonably wants the moment he wants it. This makes him, categorically, one of the...
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I Had Met Her Twice, and Now I Had to Buy Her a Genuinely Good Gift
The Office Rotation Gift Exchange My office runs an annual gift exchange with names assigned randomly across departments — deliberately mixing people who don't work closely together, on the theory that it builds connections across teams. In practice, it usually...