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The Art of Personalized Gift Giving

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The Art of Personalized Gift Giving

We can all agree that gift giving isn’t easy. Everyone is unique, and has to develop their own philosophies on how to give meaningfully to friends, family, and loved ones. The pressure to find gifts that suit a person’s needs can be a source of stress, especially during the holidays. How do you develop a gift giving methodology that causes pleasure and joy, without the stress? Although not everyone may agree with every idea in Marie Kondo’s hit book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, we feel her philosophy on gift-giving is particularly insightful. For instance, she writes, “The true purpose of...

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How a Gift Shop Can Improve Your Relationships

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How a Gift Shop Can Improve Your Relationships

How a Gift Shop Can Improve Your Relationships Gift shops are places (offline or online) where you can buy different kinds of gifts for the people that matter most to you in life. We are social animals, and we derive our meaning and identity from our social interactions and relationships with people. But the technological age in which we live has made our relationships with objects and things to be primal over our relationships to people. We spend an enormous amount of time with our smart phones on social media platforms or just surfing the net while we spend less...

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