Holiday Gifts

Tracking for Holiday Gifts

Timeline

• Create a 2026 Tab on the above spreadsheet
• Start discussion at the end of Q2 of "what" to give
• Identify "who" will receive the gifts:
  • Employees
  • Contractors
  • Clients
  • Partners
  • Vendors
• Order items
• Plan time to put together the gift
• Plan time to ship items (FedEx: if DORIS had a scale, we could save money on postage)
• Plan time to deliver items (took approximately 4 days in 2025)
• NOTE: Universities tend to go on break earlier than corporations
• NOTE: Find a way to highlight if any gifts are different (add a gift card, etc. find a way to remind during the building process.)

What:

ALL presents must include a handwritten note

Previous gifts have included:

2025:

• Handwritten note on a "2026 Colorscope" 
• Book: "What do you Do with a Problem?"
• Branded Notebook
• Flair Pen [corresponding colorscope] 
• Some presents included a pen clip
• NOTE: Notebook and cards designed by Maria Meschi

2024:

• Handwritten note on a bookmark (designed by Maria Meschi)
• Book: "The Creative Act: A Way of Being"
• Gift cards (Patachou, Loumalnatis, Tinker, Bica Cafe, local restaurants)
• Plants
• Plant/pot with seeds (different from above?) 

2023:

• Handwritten note
• Calendar designed by Maria Meschi
• Away Overnight Bag
• Gift cards (Starbucks, Parlor, Patachou, local restaurants, 

2022:

• Handwritten note
• Yeti
• Apparel gift card
• Bomber, 3/4 Zip
• Gift Cards (Starbucks, Patachou, Anthropology)