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)