Quick Tip: Regifting Vendor Handouts
This month is Thoughtless Gift Month. The Donkey provides tips on getting holiday gifts for your wife without spending much time or thought.
The RecyclingWork Garbage method.
If you are like me, you probably have mugs, umbrellas, binders, and other ridiculous merchandise with your vendors’ logos on the front. Instead of letting this pile up in your office, be sure to regift to your wife. Some of the holiday presents you receive from work, vendors, or conferences might be too out of control–like that little mini flashlight, the collapsible Frisbee, the squishy foam ball, or the shrink wrapped t-shirt–but there are a few good ones that would make a perfect gift for your wife.
For example, I was on a team that completed a fairly large project. The project sponsor rewarded each team member with a fancy picture book. I really didn’t think much of it, but knew my wife would like it. The books were wrapped, but luckily someone else opened theirs and I could see what it was. I brought the book home and presented it to my wife for Christmas. She was ecstatic and I was a hero. I didn’t need to go shopping for the gift and I didn’t even spend any money, and yet, at that moment I was a hero.
(She did find out eventually what I had done, so be sure to cover your tracks or the gift will instantly lose meaning.)
2 Responses to “Quick Tip: Regifting Vendor Handouts”
this is a great idea, but unfortunately i don’t get these kind of freebees.
By phillyz on Dec 18, 2007
what about the free toys that come with a Happy Meal? or the free lolly pops when you go to the bank? or what about the free teacher’s gift you get on that one day a year they try to pretend to honor the teachers in the school? you could always pillage in the supplies closet.
By celine on Dec 18, 2007