The Holiday Spirit Through Personalized Stationery
The holiday shopper, a creature with an uncontrollable urge to spend, can be seen during the holiday season roaming the aisles of your nearest department store. It’s very easy to spot one. Follow the sound of cash registers and you will see one at its most vulnerable, paying for an item with a swipe of a credit card. This holiday shopper sometimes feeds on very expensive coffee, carries a smartphone and a personalized notepad. Shopping lists are their native form of communication. Look, there, in the mirror.
We cannot resist the demands of the holiday season as much as we want to. Follow in the same footsteps as Ebeneezer Scrooge and pay the consequences, eventually, after a change of heart, as so the story goes. We can’t help but to feel the pressures of the holidays. We are, after all, spenders – holiday spenders – the worst kind. Now, who hasn’t been captivated by the spirit of giving? There are tons of stories out there, heart breaking moments between perfect strangers, which give us some indication that it is all real. Is there some innate force that motivates us to spend more during this time of the year? If only credit card companies were that understanding.
The holiday shopper is a resourceful brute. It is also this season that ignites something inside of them. Their actions, some would say, are quite grim. Yes, grim. They speed walk, yell, shove and hair pull their way through battle only to claim victory on a desired object. Not in the name of their country or faith do they result in desperate tactics, but through something else that is undefined. Is this the same spirit of giving I mentioned before? Or is it something explainable?
The term holiday rush is a phrase we are all familiar with. But what does it mean? Any shopper, no matter who they are or where they come from, wants the best at a low price. We call them deals, items that are priced at a significantly low amount on a given day like Black Friday. Of course, the holiday shopper expects this every time and fortunately for them many of the department stores cater to their demands weeks before Christmas. These are called sales.
This post is a study of the holiday shopper in its natural habitat. Look at them, strutting around, holding bags of discounted items in their hands. Be wary of them for they will defend what they have ransacked and sieged at all cost. Is this image a representation of the true holiday spirit? This is one perspective I will admit, the ugly side of capitalism that keeps us bound to this spending tradition, but then again that’s the whole point. Do we really need to spend that much? Is a personalized card enough to say, I appreciate you.
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Jonathan Price
I am definitely one of those holiday shoppers you see rushing about everywhere, checking names off on my personalized notepad as I buy piles and piles of awesome gifts, flipping to another page in my notepad where I’ve written down all the sales I know about going on today, and trying to make sure and get something great for everyone. I can’t get personalized stationery for absolutely everyone on my list, because some people don’t use it up as fast as others, and it wouldn’t be right to give them more stationery when they’re still using the pads I gave them before. Besides, you’ve got to mix it up now and again, right?
13 December 2012, 3:30 pmMary Beth
I’ve definitely got plenty of use out of my personalized notepad lately, writing down the names of all the people I wanted to buy gifts for, writing down ideas for things I know would be good gifts for them, and checking them off one by one as I buy them totally awesome gifts. More than one of those gifts include personalized stationery from right here, and I also picked up some gift enclosures to send along as well. I’m not totally done with my holiday shopping yet though, so I still have a few names to check off of my personalized notepad. Hopefully I will get that done this weekend!
13 December 2012, 10:48 pmAshleigh316
All my personalized cards are going out in the mail tomorrow. Lots of people will be getting the most recent family photo, and each person has a personal message written to them inside the card. It took me forever to do all that writing, and my hand is still cramped from it, but I’m pretty sure everyone will now get their Christmas card in time for the holiday. I will also be mailing out a few gifts to friends and family that live in other states. I took care of shopping for them a little sooner so there would be time for everything to travel through the mail.
I just realized today that there are a few people I still need to buy for. This is why writing down your list of who you want to buy gifts for on your personalized notepad is such an important thing to do. Can you imagine the embarrassment if I’d forgotten one of my cousins or my brother-in-law? Fortunately, I can send them each some personalized stationery that I know they will love.
14 December 2012, 2:29 amHenry B Springs
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Writer: Mary Ellen Chase
14 December 2012, 11:59 amRay Williams
My holiday shopping experiences this year have actually been pretty good so far. I haven’t seen anyone get shoved aside, or get into a shouting match or fight over some deal or anything like that. Admittedly, I didn’t do very much shopping on Black Friday, so maybe that has something to do with it, or maybe I’ve just been lucky.
Of course, I also did a good portion of my shopping online, some of it here at Giftsin24.com. More than a couple of people I know will be finding some personalized stationery beneath their Christmas trees this year.
14 December 2012, 12:42 pmJudy Jackson
Thank you for sharing this post. Holiday season is a great event for my family to shop and we really enjoyed it. It’s like our bonding time and it is so nice when we get home and trying to fit and enjoy opening our paper bags.
1 April 2013, 12:30 am