The Gift Exchange

Working here at GiftTree, customers often ask us for advice on what gifts we feel they should send, especially corporate clients. We have such a vast selection of corporate gift baskets, it really is hard to choose. There is always The Corporate Clincher, or the very extravagant Chairman’s Choice Gift Basket, but my personal favorite [...]

A. Adopt something. An animal, a street, a neighborhood. There’s almost no limit to the number of  environmental causes you can join! B. Buy products made of recycled materials. C. Change water cups around office cooler to 100% Bio-compostable cups, like we did here at GiftTree. D. Don’t buy aerosols! They can’t be recycled and most [...]

Just when you thought screw caps and synthetic corks were the latest trends in the wine world, Italy’s Agriculture Ministry announced this month that select Italian wines may now be sold in boxes. That’s right, Italian wine is going green. While this announcement may make some haughty connoisseurs gasp, wine in a box makes sense environmentally [...]

Anyone who know me knows that I like, (um, love), my lip balm. I recently entertained the idea that I might have a serious addiction to the stuff. Then, I took a look around –  A couple of tubes at my desk, one on my night stand, one in the car and two more in [...]

I’m always looking for ways to Go Green, and to encourage my family to do the same. Here’s a few things I came across that I thought were fun and easy to do! -When going out for ice cream, get a cone rather than a bowl. That way you’re eating your utensils instead of throwing [...]

For those with kids in school, each year you have to go buy school supplies. My son is still in elementary school and at the end of each school year he brings back left over supplies that the teacher divides up between students. Which means we have a ton of crayons, colored pencils, glue sticks, [...]

The dog days of summer are upon us. The other night I walked to the store and the smells of summer were everywhere. The extreme heat of the day left the smells coming from the trees and flowers a wonderful sweet aroma. We have a variety of rose bushes lilacs and lily plants on [...]

Being a native of Seattle, WA and still living in the great Northwest, I am a regular at my neighborhood Starbucks. My drink of choice is a grande x-tra hot nf latte, or an iced nf latte if it’s a hot day. Unless of course I’m getting coffee for people at work, then it’s much [...]

Okay, so must of us know that trees produce air but did you know that they actually take in carbon-dioxide and give out oxygen, “breathing” through their leaves?  Interestingly enough, a medium-sized tree generates the same amount of oxygen as each one of us needs to breathe. Vancouver Washington, where I live, is rapidly growing. [...]

Like many individuals and businesses alike, GiftTree is making an effort to reduce our ecological footprint. We believe that small changes can make a big difference. We already recycle all cardboard, paper, and aluminum cans, but we continuously look for new ideas to implement. For example, in hopes of eliminating the use of plastic utensils, we’re [...]