Are You Outside the Box?
You must think outside of the box – what box? We have all heard this saying before and have meditated over its true meaning. This phrase has become the axiom for many of the drones in the marketing world. We are all proud consumers. We all like stuff, so we thank you all, all the people who help bring the useful products and items into our homes. We can’t express how much we are in debt to you – literally.
The economy, a mysterious construct that many economists and experts still cannot figure out, has provided us with the opportunity to act anew. We must look at the glass half empty or is it half full? (This is another axiom provided to us by the marketing gurus of this world.) We may be consumers, but we have become more frugal and critical about how we spend our money. So, we must think outside of the box. This is not a simple process by all means.
We are the best critics of the people we have in our lives and so who better to shop for than them. Truth is most of us wouldn’t buy a complete stranger a gift, provided that we haven’t been inspired by the Christmas spirit. So the probability of giving someone a thoughtful gesture increases – by my calculation that is. This is where my pitch for getting someone personalized stationery for the holidays comes in, but you already knew that. I also don’t have to mention that personalized stationery makes an economical gift and a thoughtful one too. Wow, I guess, it’s not that hard to think outside of the box after all.
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Thinking outside the box may be a trite little catchphrase, but it’s stuck around for awhile now. Long enough that it spawned derivative slogans like “think outside the bun” from Taco Bell a few years ago. And when you think about what it actually means, to step outside the boundaries of normal thinking and embrace new possibilities and ideas, it really is good advice.
For some people, thinking outside the box can include buying personalized stationery as a gift for someone. For others (including some of us here on the blog I’m sure), that’s not really outside the box for us anymore since we do it fairly often. But hey, there’s also something to be said for going with what works, right? I try to mix it up and not always give personalized stationery as a gift, or at least give different styles to different people each time. You’ve got to keep things fresh, after all.
2 December 2012, 2:13 pmHenry Springs
It looks like this Christmas will continue to signify a continued recovery as the last two. If Americans don’t feel confident about, shopping, one of our national past times we are indeed in worse trouble then before the last re-election. Last year consumers raised their glasses to promote the holiday mood, mistletoe rendezvous and “Jack Frost nipping at your nose with your eyes all aglow. Maybe chestnuts will be roasting on an open fire a bit later. Some of us will indeed try to bring some of the past, present and truly original personalized expressions to gift giving such as Personalized Notes, Cards, Notepads, Wardrobes, Napkins and gift sets just to name a few. Giving a little bit of vision will be a point of focus, a little bit of foresight or even the perfect stationery gift or tool that will help a few surprised recipients think outside the box. Our personalized Stationery gifts will surely be the gift that gives a spark to everyday life the whole year through.
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” I don’t think inside the box, I don’t think outside the box, I don’t even know where the box is! ” Why is thinking outside the box an expansion of one’s vision ?
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2 December 2012, 2:57 pmJonathan Price
I gave out lots of personalized stationery for Christmas gifts last year, and for several birthdays in the intervening year as well. Every single time, they were well-received and very popular gifts. I can definitely vouch that if this is a new outside-the-box idea for you (as it was for me last year), then it will go over very well with many people. It’s well worth giving as a gift, though I recommend actually putting it inside the box before you wrap it up, especially if you’ll be sending it to someone by mail. It tends to survive the trip better that way.
2 December 2012, 5:32 pmPaulette Leto
I don’t think the true meaning of the phrase “think outside the box” is really all that complicated. The box is a metaphor representing the usual confines of thought. Thinking outside of those confines is what you have to do in order to find new thoughts, new ideas.
And doing exactly that – thinking outside the box – is how you keep your gifts fresh this holiday season. If you’re like me, you may have given out lots of personalized stationery in the past. You may also have sent lots of personalized cards to people during the holidays – it is a pretty common tradition, after all. So what you need to do is to change things up a bit. Design some new personalized stationery to give out, maybe making it a different color or using a different style than you’ve given before. Do the same with your personalized cards, but also think about what new messages you can write in them when you send them to friends and family. If you say the same old thing you always do, telling them what you’ve been up to and wishing everybody a Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah, or whatever holiday you celebrate, then you’re not thinking outside the box. If you mix it up a little and think of something new to write, then you can make your personalized cards more memorable and make a stronger impression with them.
3 December 2012, 4:02 pm