The Gift Exchange

And the winners are…Beth Shepard, Sharon Jones, Vicki Wurgler, Marie Noguerole, and Janet F. Congratulations to our winners and a big thank you to everyone who participated! We really enjoy reading your questions,and we will be answering them in the Ask an Expert blog catorgory in the days and weeks to come, so keep an eye out.

GiftTree customers often look to our customer service representatives for gifting advice and card message suggestions. Our customers rely on our expertise and we take that trust seriously. We’d like to hear your questions so we can answer them here at The Gift Exchange in our Ask an Expert category and allow others to benefit as well. Do you want to know what price range is appropriate for a “thank you for the referral” gift? Do you wonder if a gift for your boss should be gender specific or more generic? Do you want to know what the best break up gift is? Trust me, we can answer all of these questions and more.

Submit a comment to this blog post with a gifting question and you’ll be entered to win. We’ll choose five random entries to win GiftTree t-shirts. Deadline is Midnight (PST), Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008.

For another chance to win, put a link to this contest or the GiftTree website (www.gifttree.com) on your blog, chat board, discussion group, forum, or appropriate website and you’ll receive another entry. Simply submit a comment to this blog post with the link information. You can submit additional entries for each website that you post a link on. Please be certain that posting this link to a public forum or other site does not violate any rules of the site.

The winners will be emailed and congratulated in a blog post on The Gift Exchange. Thanks for playing!

The Gift Exchange’s “Name That Gift” contest has finished and our winner has been randomly chosen. Congratulations to Tamara Litke. She has won the New Yorker gift basket.

Thank you to everyone who played and a special thanks to everyone that left nice comments about our gift baskets. We think we have beautiful gifts and it is great to see that you agree!

And the winners are…Anne, Ed, Kathy, Vickie, and Tonya. Congratulations to our winners and a big thank you to everyone who participated! We really enjoy reading the comments that people leave here at The Gift Exchange and this contest was no exception.

Anne:
My favorite wedding gift from my first marriage was the divorce!!
My favorite wedding gift from my second and last marriage were the smiling faces of my girls as they walked down the aisle!!

Ed Nemmers:
A crock pot. Seriously.

Kathy:
Someone gave me a diaper pail!!! I guess they thought that I was pregnant. No name on the gift and no one has said it was from them????

Vickie McCoy:
The best wedding gift I received was from my Mother-in-Law…she gave me her wonderful son.

Tonya Keener:
I think the best wedding gift is the love the couple has for each other. My parents just celebrated 46 years of marriage and they look at each other today like they are even more in love than the day they married. He cooks for her every morning and she helps him with the yard work…

GiftTree gift baskets are pretty recognizable. From the superior quality of our basket components to the keepsake containers, many people can spot GiftTree gift baskets in a crowd. But how easy is it to find one specific basket among many on the GiftTree website?

Go to www.gifttree.com and find the gift basket shown here. Post a comment with the name of the basket and you’ll be entered to win this mystery gift basket. Comments will not be published until the contest is over.

For another chance to win, put a link to this contest or our website (www.gifttree.com) on your blog, chat board, discussion group, forum, or appropriate website and you’ll receive a another entry. Submit a comment with the link information as your answer. You can submit additional entries for each website that you post a link on. Please be certain that posting this link to a public forum or other site does not violate any rules of the site.

Entry deadline is Midnight (PST), May 31st, 2008. The winner will be picked at random and will be notified by email. The winner will also be congratulated in a blog post on The Gift Exchange. Thanks for playing!

Wedding season is right under our noses, which means wedding gift shopping in full force. I have two different friends that will soon be marrying their long time loves. Both couples have established homes and are not planning to register for the traditional china and towels. Sometimes that can make selecting the perfect wedding gift a little more challenging. This is just one more time that I love working for GiftTree. I get to rely on our designers who have far better taste than I do. They make me look good at every gift giving occasion! What would I do without them…What have you done without them? I’m curious what your favorite wedding gift has been, whether it was a gift to you or an ingeniously creative gift you have given to a happy couple. Share your favorite wedding gift with us and you’ll be entered to win. The Gift Exchange contributors will choose our five favorites. The winners will each receive GiftTree t-shirts. Thanks for playing!

Deadline to Enter: Midnight (PST) Tuesday, May 20th.

Over 400 people posted comments about the motherly advice their mom’s shared with them. A big thank you to everyone who joined in the fun! You all have pretty smart moms. The advice they gave you was really neat to read and learn from.

The Gift Exchange contributors picked Rita Singleton as the contest winner. Congratulations, Rita!

Advice from Rita’s Mom:
Walk like you own half the world and are on your way to buy the rest.

Not a winner this time? GiftTree offers several spa gift baskets that are a treat for Mother’s Day and any day.

The Gift Exchange’s “Win a Gift for Mom From GiftTree.com” contest has come to an end. Thank you to everyone who shared their messages to mom with us. We truly enjoyed reading the many posts. Some of the messages were so touching it was difficult to read them without shedding a tear, while other messages were down right hilarious.

It was a difficult decision, but after much deliberation, The Gift Exchange contributors picked Debra Ford as the winner of our contest. Congratulations, Debra!

From Debra to Mom:
Mom, you adopted me at 3 days old, never lied to me, and more importantly, never made me feel anything but loved and wanted. I will always remember being told that I was specially pick from thousands of babies (OK, so maybe you lied, but what a great one!). Now a mother myself, I try to follow your example and make my children feel loved and special each and every day. Thank you mom, for giving me all my birthmother could not, and all I could ever need.

Not a winner this time? GiftTree has many Mother’s Day gifts that are a perfect way to express your love and appreciation to your mom this Mother’s Day.

Moms really are what make the world go round. They give us life, love us, and send us out into the world, always ready to be there for us at a moment’s notice. A mother’s job certainly doesn’t end when her child grows up. The job just evolves.

I spent my early childhood trying to emulate my mom and then as a teenager, I was always trying to escape her. Obviously during those tumultuous teenage years, I knew everything and didn’t need to listen to the archaic advice from my mother. Surely my friends were better judges of life than my mom. (I laugh at the thought now) These days, I can look back fondly at the lessons she taught me, spoken and unspoken, when she thought I wasn’t even paying attention.

I can almost hear the unified sigh from all of us who wish we’d given our mother’s more credit for the advice they were trying to freely give. So, what is the best lesson your mom taught you? Post a comment below and share the best advice or most valuable lesson that you learned from your mom and you’ll be entered in GiftTree’s Mother’s Day contest. The Gift Exchange contributors will choose our favorite post and the winner will receive the Organic Spa Basket, for you or for your mom.

Deadline to Enter: Midnight (PST) Wednesday, May 7th. Not the winner this time? GiftTree has many Mother’s Day gifts that are perfect for mom.

Mother’s Day is just around the corner. I’ve been looking at what GiftTree has available to help me tell my mom how much she means to me. We have several gifts that she would absolutely love – The Chicken Soup for a Mother’s Soul Gourmet Gift Basket would be a huge hit, but the Mother’s Day Wildflower Garden is adorable and has a sentimental message painted on the flower pot…What’s a girl to do…How about take advantage of my employer’s public blog to give my mom a Mother’s Day shout out for the world to see!

Mom, Thank you for being you and thank you for teaching me by example how to be a better mom. I love you! Jen

Now it’s your turn. Post a comment below with a special message to your mom and you’ll be entered in our Mother’s Day drawing. The Gift Exchange contributors will choose our favorite message. The winner will receive The Chicken Soup for a Mother’s Soul Gourmet Basket, keep it for yourself or better yet, we can send it directly to your mom for you.

Deadline to Enter: Midnight (PST) Wednesday, April 30th.