May 2009
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What Not To Give - The Top 10 Worst Gifts
Granted - meaningful gift-giving isn’t easy and it certainly doesn’t come naturally to everyone. However, avoiding the worst gifts can’t be all that difficult and is half the battle. So here are some of the worst gift categories to steer clear of, along with some real life examples. You do have to wonder sometimes… 1) The Offensive Gift “My girlfriend gave me...
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Meaningful gift-giving...
No doubt we have all experienced this situation: come Christmas or our birthday, we are handed a box or bag, a beautifully-wrapped package with a ribbon and a card. Eyes filled with expectations and a broad smile in front of us, we open the gift and… are stunned! “Errr, thank you soooo much! This really is a GREAT gift, thank you!”, is what we hear ourselves saying, when really...
April 2009
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Easter Gift Ideas
Easter is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, three days after his death by crucifixion.
It is also one of the most popular gift giving occasions in Western countries: think easter eggs and chocolate bunnies, plants and other fantastic little presents to celebrate spring.
Look out for great easter gift ideas and...
February 2009
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Hospitality Quotes
Invited for dinner? Wanting to say ‘thank you’ to your host with a personal message? A lovely quote will make your note more special.
Check out these great hospitality quotes and hospitality symbols!
January 2009
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I'm Sorry Gift Ideas
“An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.” - Lynn Johnston
Most of us will have been faced with the situation of wanting to say sorry to someone we care about. Maybe we did or said something which unintentionally caused upset to somebody we never wanted to hurt and now we find it hard to come up with meaningful words to undo the grief we caused.
Giving...
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are...”
– Robert Southey
Farewell gifts - giving a little 'goodbye'
Saying goodbye is probably one of the hardest things we have to do in life. In fact, it can be so hard that we can barely speak and say all those things we still want our loved one to know.
All the good luck wishes, the “I’ll miss you”s and “I love you”s remain unsaid and we part feeling upset for another reason: not only did we just wave goodbye to someone we deeply...
Retirement gift ideas
Without doubt one of the most significant milestones in life is the day our working life finally comes to an end and we can supposedly sit back and relax.
Retirement is meant to be the time when one can at last harvest the fruit of years of hard work and enjoy the freedom of having the time to pursue all those hobbies and interests that were neglected for years.
Well, unfortunately we are not...
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Host gifts - Get it right
Whether dinner at your friend’s place or a cocktail party at your business partner’s house - there are numerous occasions that encourage us to give a token of appreciation for someone’s hospitality.
Of course there is always the traditional bottle of wine we can bring but that is hardly imaginative and not a very personal choice of gift.
Great host gift ideas include symbols,...
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Gift inspiration
Gift-giving can be such a stressful thing to do - all we want is to make somebody we care about happy, show them how much they mean to us and put a smile on their face.
But time-constraints and the concern that we might get it wrong despite our best intentions make it seemingly impossible to even make a choice.
Unfortunately we are not helped by the vast amount of useless websites surrounding...
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Simple ways to make gift-giving more meaningful
Check out More Than A Gift to find out how you can make your gift ideas much more meaningful and personal.
The site includes information on the background of the most common gift-giving occasions and includes quotes, symbols and some fantastic real-life testimonials from people sharing their best and worst gift experiences.
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Valentines gift ideas →
Useful information about the origins of St. Valentine’s Day, real-life testimonials, symbols and quotes to make your special Valentine’s gift ideas more personal and meaningful.
“The only gift is a portion of thyself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson