Here’s another argument for having everybody pick out presents via gift registry, or perhaps just cutting to the chase and buying gifts for yourself. According to a new survey, there’s a 20% chance you’ll get a crummy present during the holidays.
Apparently, the regular old bustling holiday shopping season isn’t enough for retailers constantly looking for new ways to stir up business and increase sales numbers. Nowadays, to rouse consumers into ceaseless shopping sprees, it seems like every other day from the end of November through December is branded as a sales “event” of one kind [...]
As 2010 comes to a close, keep some money in your pocket when bellying up to the bar or the fast food counter, considering luxury “status” purchases, shopping the post-Christmas sales, and planning your kid’s birthday party.
Because most people have the whole day off from work on Christmas Eve, it’s expected to be one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Some 23 million shoppers are expected to be out there rounding up gifts today. But the recipients don’t need to know you waited until the last minute to buy [...]
Join in the festivities by digging up something underwhelming you received last year and unloading it on somebody else. You’re less likely to be pegged as a regifter if the item isn’t opened. But then again, if you never even took the thing out of the box, that’s a pretty clear sign of how much [...]
To regift or not to regift: Actually, that’s not the question. The question is: How can I get away with regifting something without getting busted as a regifter, and without coming off like a schmuck or a jerk for giving a present that I didn’t want and may seem totally inappropriate and/or thoughtless?
On Dec. 15, I wrote about a marketing exec who had received donations to charity in her name from vendors in lieu of the traditional holiday popcorn bucket. One brand new company in Phoenix called David and Sam PR had even decided to make it their thing, offering to stuff clients’ stockings with either a) [...]
