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Many people strive to have their Christmas shopping done before even Thanksgiving has arrived, while others are merely starting to go down their Christmas list only a few days before Christmas is to arrive. You have made your list and included all of your family members and friends, but are you forgetting some people? Sure you may not go golfing with them on the weekends or attend their children¡¯s dance recitals, but you do spend at least forty hours a week with these people: your work colleagues.
By no means are you required to get every single person in your office an extravagant gift. If you are very close to some of your work colleagues, by all means, get them gifts as you would any other close friend. However, if you want to give all of your work colleagues a little special something for the holidays, here are some ideas that you can create en masse.
If your office is like 99% of corporate offices, your colleagues will scramble all over each other to be the first to get whatever food is brought in by other colleagues. So why not satisfy their hunger pangs and spend a Sunday afternoon baking different cookies, brownies or bread loafs to individually hand wrap for your colleagues. You have been eyeing that cookie recipe book for years now, promising yourself you will try some of those recipes soon. Now is as good a time as any. Make some mini banana nut breads and wrap with colored cellophane or buy holiday tins and fill with different types of cookies and brownies.
Maybe you want something a little fancier, but also food-inspired? Get some fresh strawberries and dip them in melted milk and white chocolate for some fancy chocolate-covered strawberries. Place each chocolate-covered strawberry in a small gold holder and put six of them in a decorative box to give to individual colleagues. You can also treat your colleagues to a breakfast by buying a few dozen bagels and a coffee carafe sometime during the Christmas holidays. It will be a welcome surprise and a great gift for your friends at work.
If you are more of a crafts person, buy some plain natural colored gift cards and hand decorate each card for each colleague. You can use holiday-inspired enhancements like holly, sprigs of a garland or raffia to decorate each card. Handwrite a personal holiday message to your colleague inside the gift card and you can be sure your homemade card will end up on their Christmas tree at home!
At a crafts store, purchase some of those inexpensive miniature stockings and using glitter or a black marker, write out your colleagues¡¯ names on each stocking to personalize them. Fill the stocking with chocolate-covered espresso beans, inexpensive gift certificates (for a cup of coffee or a bagel) or scratch-off lottery tickets.
Whatever you decide to give your colleagues for the holiday season, they will appreciate the thought and hard work you put into their gifts. |
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