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Saturday, July 31, 2010
Christmas gifts for coworkers can be good or bad. We all spend loads of time at work and sometimes coworkers are a lot like family so buying Christmas gifts for coworkers make sense, but it really can be expensive and burdensome during the holidays.
Nifty Nicky's tips about Christmas gifts for coworkers...
Nifty Nicky strongly believes that if you buy Christmas gifts for coworkers, you should give equitable gifts to all your coworkers (at least those in your department) and not just a select few. That's just good common sense.
However, if you are particularly good friends with some of your coworkers and you want to get them something special, that's fine, just give such Christmas gifts for coworkers to your friend outside of the workplace.
A lot of places draw names and employees buy Christmas gifts for coworkers whose names they drew. This is a good practice that makes an employee Christmas party fun as there are Christmas gifts for coworkers without anyone having a huge expense.
Chinese Christmas gift exchanges are great fun for Christmas parties. With these, everyone brings one Christmas gift for coworkers that would be appropriate for anyone.
Each employee picks a number and whoever gets the number "1" starts the gift exchange by choosing a gift from under the tree and opening it. Number "2" has the option of taking the gift that has already been opened or choosing one from under the tree.
The person who gets their gift taken away chooses a new gift from under the tree and opens it. This goes on until all the gifts have been opened. It is a fun game to play and it encourages employees not to buy individual Christmas gifts for coworkers as that can be economically challenging.
If your place of employment doesn't have gift exchanges such of these and you want to get Christmas gifts for coworkers, you may consider ordering gift packages that come with several different individual gifts that are inexpensive yet thoughtful. For instance, you can go to Figi's Gifts to order a catalog.
At Christmas time they have great gift packages that have several different decorated boxes of various snacks like Christmas candies and nuts. You can get a gift pack for say 20 people and you'll have 20 individual snack boxes adorned with holiday décor to give out as Christmas gifts for coworkers without spending a fortune.
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