While we all know that Thanksgiving was a feast celebrated by pilgrims and Native Americans, have you ever stopped and wondered why we’ve come to celebrate it by gorging ourselves with a 3000 calorie meal, which is often followed by a marathon $3,000 shopping spree the next day?
Somewhere in the not-to-distant annals of history, Thanksgiving [...]
A few months back, this girl at work and I went out for lunch together. We ended up going to a restaurant that wouldn’t accept credit cards and she didn’t have any cash on her that day. But she seemed really cool and generally trustworthy, so I gladly spotted her ten bucks, thinking she’d eventually [...]
Two weeks before desperate shoppers huddle outside of stores in anticipation of “Black Friday” deals, I was in line outside of H&M at 7am, two hours before the store opened its doors. I never imagined myself being in one of those lines, waiting and preparing to fight through a mob of people for clothes. Clothes!
I’m [...]
My mom is no maverick with the computer and her web surfing skills are pitiful, so much so that I had to bookmark all her favorite websites. Communicating with her by email is too confusing: believe me, I tried. 50 frustrating minutes of me showing her where the inbox is and she’s still confused [...]
Yesterday, Matt gave us 3 Rules to Giving the Good Gift. If you’re still stumped, here are some suggestions to get you started.
Start Baking
Homemade cookies, breads, cakes—as long as you avoid making fruitcake, who doesn’t love getting baked goods? Baked goods are a great way to show affection for someone, particularly if you personalize them. [...]
It probably isn’t surprising that I’m a disciple of the Good Gift, that perfect present that genuinely increases someone’s happiness. After all, people watching is my favorite sport and I tend to enjoy the opportunity to turn what I know about someone into a smile on their face. So when Marc asked me [...]
The I Will Thrive video started, like all good things, on a dark and stormy night when some of us were in the office far, far too late on a Saturday. We had stopped work to grab some food at a nearby eatery (Mooncake Foods, a favorite haunt of the team) and got to talking [...]
We all know that companies benefit from offering gift cards, which is probably why there are so many of them. People spend their money much more readily when they use a gift card rather than cash, and they also tend to spend a higher amount of money in the store overall. Professor Dan Horne of [...]
About half a year ago, I discovered a very pretty silk twill dress with oversized flamenco dots and braided straps on eBay that I quickly decided was mine. The item in question stayed at a relatively low price throughout the auction, until the last ten minutes or so, when an absolutely insane bidding war broke [...]
When I was a first-semester freshman, I met a lot of potential friends who were all nice enough, but who were still up in the air as to whether they could be lasting friends. One night, a group of these trial friends and I went out to dinner together. Everything was perfectly fine, right up [...]
This post was written by marc matsumoto, marketing dude on November 27, 2008 
