Christmas Fruits

Shopping online is supposed to be easier than going to the mall. At the mall there are millions of people who all have to go to the same store as you do. And if there is a sale anywhere, you’re lucky if you don’t get run over. But shopping online isn’t as easy as everyone says. Try doing your Christmas shopping online, where there are lists by people suggesting things that cost over $2000. And these are supposed to be the perfect gift. In my opinion $2000 should equal to at least forty perfect gifts! And the websites themselves take forever to load and an eternity to process your sale. Then you wait around for weeks. When what you ordered finally arrives, it won’t be wrapped because you didn’t pay the extra charge for it.

Despite all of this I still shop online particularly for corporate gifts. The reason being, if you have a good head on your shoulders, and I do, you can find some really neat stuff and great ideas for unique Christmas gifts. Most people suggest shirts with the corporate logo as a nice corporate gift. To me that is ridiculous. Who on earth wants to go around on the holidays wearing a shirt with the corporate logo? It looks too much like a cheap escape.

The trick is to find decent gifts for Christmas that are between the $20 and $ 100 price range. They need to be presentable. People suggest great homemade gifts but if you work in corporate America a jar of white chocolate orange crunch will prove you are distantly related to the Mad Hatter. Pricing is also important because if you get someone at work a gift that’s too expensive they will diligently look for an ulterior motive.

At times like this and with people trying to tell me that my boss might like the new Playstation because she’s really a kid at heart, I go for the tried and tested stuff. In my many years of looking for and buying gifts I have found some really good stuff to gift people. If the response to something is exceptionally well, I gift the same thing again next year or buy something similar.

With my boss, who I have a great working relationship with; I repeatedly turn to Christmas fruit baskets. I know she loves fruit and so I look for unique fruit gifts for Christmas. I’m lucky enough to find them. There is a whole world of edible fruit bouquets out there that meet my corporate gift needs. It also goes great with my peers. And giving a gift to your peers is tricky.

If you buy a really expensive gift, they might think your showing off the fact that you make more money than them. I go with the fruit again. And compared to the ordinary Christmas gift baskets and the conventional Christmas fruit out there, my Christmas gifts stand out. Way out. The greatest thing of course is that they don’t need to be wrapped. That is a lot of time and money saved.