gifting

The platforms we use to socialize with our communities are rapidly evolving, improving our lives and the way we communicate. We're faster, more succinct and inundated with real time information but the Internet didn't invent collaboration.Even before the industrial revolution families have been coll ...

Interested in becoming more fiscally responsible in 2013? You can start by reducing your annual spend by collaborating, which will drive down your yearly spending on gifts and large-ticket items... with a little help from your friends.As of last year, the annual spend on gifts was approximately $764 ...

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Back before the Internet, aspiring owners, through word of mouth would boast to their friends and family about the next must-have whatever, in hopes that their peers would remember come their next birthday. And for as long as I can remember children have been writing copious notes to Santa, knowing ...

Contest Details: We'll be choosing fans to WIN a GIFT of their choice, selected by YOU using CountMeIn!Use CountMeIn to select an awesome gift (we have thousands of gifts), then register the gift and share it on Pinterest to qualify!Visit the Official Rules before submitting you ...

This Halloween we’d like to take this opportunity to terrify you with the most frightening and appalling gifts we’ve ever seen – gifts so horrifying the only place for them is within this post.The gifts you’re about to see are so awful and totally inappropriate, it’s completely impossible ...

Just because you’re confined to home today it doesn’t mean you can’t get a head start on some serious community biz – there’s nothing like feeling a sense of accomplishment, right?Sure, re-watching the entire Sopranos series or maybe firing up alternative entertainment sites (cough, cough) ...

Nice Girls Finish Last, I’m done. Being the resident “nice girl” in my office has only complicated my already busy work day. Sure, I have only myself to blame but I need a way out. It all started two years ago, when I made the irrational decision to buy a card and collect money for Jim, who af ...

Gentlemen, do you remember the gift giving holidays of your youth? Christmas and birthdays had me manic for weeks prior, and I’m sure I foamed at the mouth when presented with the spoils of these days, covered in wrap. Lionel Trains, Give-A-Show Projectors, and Major Matt Mason, one of the first ...