Ok, it's time for my meds. Till next time....!
11 years ago
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Check this out! What a great idea!
I just came across a really cool product that I wanted to share. In fact, I actually "tweeted" it!! (That in itself is a very big deal, you know...!) They are called "Karma Cards" and they are made by a fairly new company called "NewLeaf Paper Products". They are notecards made from 100% recycled paper. When you send one to someone, they can tear off the top part and use it as a post card to send to someone else!! How cool is that??! REGIFTABLE NOTECARDS!! Of course, being one who usually starts writing on the proper side but ends up also writing on the top part and then the backside as well (I have a challenge with space definition and alignment, ok??) I would have to be careful so that the top part could actually be reused. I thought of stuff like that, but you know how that goes--- all thought and no action... (and you may keep your snarky remarks to yourself on that one, thankyouverymuch). You are probably asking yourself, "Why, what other unique and original regifting product ideas do I have??" (why?, so you can take them, make them happen, get featured on talk shows and enviromental blogs, become a millionaire and leave me in the dust?? Homeless and living out of the boxes that my books came in, eeking out a meager existance by giving passerby's a copy of my book and hopeing for a spare coin or bill to be stuffed into the paper cup being held out by my starving children?? Is that why you ask? Do you even really care?? Well I'm not going to tell you. So there.
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About Me
- -jodi
- Born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, I began regifting at an early age. My whole family routinely regifted and still does. I never realized it was such a social slap-in-the-face until I was much older and could afford to actually purchase presents for people. But still, I regularly regifted. Friends were offended, co-workers and employees were enraged, and customers and clients were incredulous! Why in the world would anyone want to give someone a gift that they had already gotten? “Well”, I wondered, “Why not?” It seemed to me that there were numerous reasons to resort to regifting when giving a gift was expected. For one, why waste a present that could be perfectly appropriate for another person, just because it wasn’t something that I necessarily needed or wanted, when someone else seriously might be excited to receive it? Plus, it seemed as if some pretty good gifts were getting wasted, when the whole world was working on reducing and recycling our otherwise useless stuff for the protection of our planet. I figured (as my family had frequently found before) that regifting was really the most responsible way for anyone to recycle their unwanted gift waste, once and for all!
Here's the link to the Karma Cards: http://budurl.com/p6tv
ReplyDeleteWell Jodi, tak this as my RE-GIFT Comment note to you. Ha ha! But did you notice that my gift has a stark difference that it bought a free smile to your face so do the readers get. :)
ReplyDeleteWell, lemme first acknowledge the startup of your blog: "There are no bad regifts, only bad regifters"... I was hard struck by this line. Its amazingly cool and verasity beholds its deep seated meaning.
Here in India, 17th Oct was the biggest Hindu festival of Diwali. Gifts in trade all over the place. People thronged and packed the markets. Sweet boxes were on run from one door to another to celebrate the festival. But I tell you, Indians are "Highly evolved" set of species in the business of Re-gifting. Seriously! Once a sweet box lands up in our homes, instead of finding out its usage and utility, decision is taken whom it is to be gifted and what all labels to be removed or to be just forwarded like an ordinary mail landing in our inbox. :D
I wish, we both do some discovery and market analysis in Indian also where this tradition is certainly high in its state of development.
For now, I gift you a sweet smile.. Keep regifting, no need of recycling. Good Luck for the Book!!
cheers...