The Gift Exchange

Earth Day is one of those days each year that give us all the opportunity to search ourselves to see how we can live more consciously. We all know that less cars on the road, recycling, and CFL light bulbs are better for the environment, but knowing this and applying this information are two different [...]

Earth Day is April 22nd and GiftTree is celebrating for the entire month. GiftTree personnel are challenging themselves, and each other, to do (or not do) just one environmentally friendly thing for the entire month. In honor of our Earth Day Challenge, a large board by the front door shows everyone’s written commitments. There are some [...]

My husband and I have a friend who loves Marilyn Monroe memorabilia, and we were browsing around looking for a unique birthday gift for him the other night. Most people know that Marilyn’s birth name was Norma Jean Baker, but we ran across some other celebrity name changes and were a little surprised by some [...]

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They’re all together ooky, The GiftTree Family. That should be our anthem for the Halloween holiday here at GiftTree! Every year there’s some kind of scary lunatic (Brianna) lurking around the water cooler, or a clown (Stacey) clucking in a far off corner, and sometimes if you listen closely, you can hear [...]

Here in the Pacific Northwest, it’s a very colorful month filled with every shade of red, orange and brown. You can’t help but think of those bright fall colors when you think of October. But have you heard? Pink is the color of October. Everyone knows that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. I have to [...]

Recently I had the awesome opportunity to join some of my co-workers on the Susan G. Komen Race For the Cure in Portland, Oregon and I can’t begin to describe to you the impact that such an event had on me. I was inspired, touched, saddened, elated and above all honored, to be among the [...]

There are so many Holidays that have seemed to pop up in the last century that were non-existent back in the ice age…(smug laugh). Bosses Day is one of them. I have recently become a boss and was surprised by the people in my department who made it a special day for me! Not only [...]

I recently went on a vacation to Italy with my family to visit my father who is teaching at a small university in a town about an hour from Venice and Milan. Although we did visit Venice for a day, most of our time was spent traveling between smaller towns scattered across the Italian countryside.  Northern [...]

Stacey Lawrence-Customer Service Representative I used to think I didn’t like fall.  The child in me saw the end of summer freedom.  The student in me dreaded going back to school.  The outdoor adventurist in me knew the rain was coming and I’d be limited to mostly indoor explorations. I’m an adult now, no longer the student, [...]

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 [...]