Friedman stresses that gift giving in the office doesn't have to be an expensive ordeal.
They shared perishable food, not out of altruism, but as insurance and reciprocal gift giving.
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Flynn says families are well-advised to set spending limits, which curtail wasteful gift giving.
Christmas gift giving is, after all, a voluntary social program, as redistributive as any on record.
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Plain and simple, it was selfish, and it turned the magic of gift giving into a financial transaction.
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The holiday season is a time of family, friends, gift giving, food, and drink, a time to count our blessings.
This kind of gift giving tends to spiral out of control, because neither of you seems to want to stop.
The new player in this game is Webcertificate.com, a Web site where the gift giving and the shopping are done online.
Every year students at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design are challenged to find ways of improving gift giving for the giver.
So why not tie the act of gift giving to social networks?
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Around this time, my family is busy preparing for Christmas traditions: the gift giving, the midnight candlelight service, the feast on Christmas Day.
For the past several years, my family and I have not engaged in the wrapped-and-bowed gift giving tradition. of the year-end holiday season.
The House managers want you to believe that this gift giving was a show of confidence, that he knew Ms. Lewinsky would conceal them.
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When it comes to gift giving, Rob Johnsen, co-founder of MyWedding.com, has some simple, if calculating advice: Decide how much your relationship is worth.
In May, Facebook acquired Karma, a social gift giving service.
Switching focus from gift giving to others to giving to yourself, is the best way to feel some relaxation and peace during the holiday season.
The core idea: gift giving is a fundamentally social act.
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Remembering your friends, reaching out to the wider extended family and gift giving, not to simply supply the latest gewgaw but to recall shared experiences and cement those relationships?
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Finally, Neeta has a whole wing of her consultancy, Very Truly Yours, dedicated to gift giving and wrapping, which is not included in the multi million budgets for the weddings themselves.
My mother knew that part of our gift giving ritual was a way to spend time with each other- I come from a family that has a long drawn out gifting ritual.
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Gift giving is all about what's under that wrapping paper rather than the package itself, but when the holidays are over those shiny new gadgets won't just protect themselves from the inevitable wear and tear.
Apple isn't quite so cyncial, and it may have injected new life into gift giving now that it has switched on buying gift cards through the recently updated Apple Store iOS app as of this weekend.
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In another response to the calls for people to shun extravagance and waste, China's TV watchdog has ordered all radio and television channels to cut advertising suggesting "gift giving, " the official Xinhua News Agency reported this week.
E-mail your customer database with specific suggestions about you could meet their gift-giving needs.
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Gift-giving between friends, for example, strengthens non-kin bonds as people choose friends who can reciprocate.
Mid-Autumn Festival is an important day for the Chinese, marked by family reunions and gift-giving.
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The slow grind of this rough economy has caused many friends and families to reset gift-giving practices.
Or offices can implement a no gift-giving policy and instead have everyone participate in a potluck lunch.
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