Friends, is gifting driving you nuts? Do you pull your hair out trying to find that perfect gift? When you're in business, many suppliers thank you for being a good customer by sending gifts. If you're the one sending the gifts, it can be tough to think of a gift that will help your customers remember you!  Who's on your gift list? Teachers, secretaries, office professionals, the mail carrier, your doctor, your lawyer, your pastor... there's always some reason to send a gift.  Birthdays and holidays creep up on you, and there you are with no gift insight. Or worse, you look through a catalog and decide that putting your company logo on a pencil is a good idea.  Like the recipient will be thrilled to have another pen or highlighter, or - horrors - the dreaded chip clip. And where do these thoughtful gifts wind up? In the junk drawer, where you toss those giant paper clips or erasers and then quickly forget they are there. There are all kinds of ways to thank your cu...

Ah, the holidays. 'Tis the season for family, friendship, and arguing with strangers on social media about the appropriate time to start playing Christmas music. It's also the season for corporate gifts, which is always fun for those who already suck at gift-giving. It's hard enough finding gifts for your own family members, and now you need gifts for people you only sort of know? How are you supposed to know what Debbie from HR wants for the holidays?  Anyway, we have a simple solution, and that solution is nuts. Literally, you should give nuts as corporate gifts this year. Unless Debbie is allergic to nuts (it's always best to find out), nuts make awesome corporate gifts. Why? We'll tell you.  They Fit the Theme  Not to reach for the low-hanging fruit here, but can we all agree that 2020 has been nuts ? In any other year, the murder hornets would've been bigger news, but this year? Nope! Those guys are the literal least of our worries this year. Please. You r...

We're almost 11 months into a very long year, and now your coworkers are tiny squares on your computer screen. And if nobody's turning on their cameras, your coworkers aren't even tiny squares with faces. We're not saying that there aren't perks to working from home. You can't very well walk into your regular office without pants, after all. But working from home does come with a few questions, like "Do I still need to get corporate gifts this year?" and "Have my children always been this loud?"  The answers are, "If you want to," and "yes," respectively. We can't help you with that second thing, but let's talk office gifts. There are a lot of great reasons to give them in 2020, and you have lots of options. Let's take a look at both.  Reasons for Corporate Gifts  This year, you've heard the word "unprecedented" a lot, which is a word that means "nobody knows what they're doing." And...

Image by  Ryan McGuire  from  Pixabay   What can we say about corporate gifts? Well, let’s be honest. More often than not, corporate gifts are boring and forgettable. Sometimes you buy gifts because you want to show someone that you care. At other times, you buy gifts because Cheryl already bought a gift and you don’t want to look bad in front of your boss again. Corporate gifts, obviously, fall into that second category. Still, this doesn’t mean that you can’t make those gifts fun for yourself, and here at Try My Nuts, we’ve got a few ideas.  1. Class Up Your Corporate Gifts  What, you didn’t think that a company called “Try My Nuts” could be classy? Please. You bet your nuts we can be classy. Not everybody works in an “open office plan” kind of environment where people sit in bean bag chairs and take turns “exchanging ideas” over kombucha every Friday. That’s fine. Nobody actually likes open office plans, anyway.  Now, when it come...

Image by  Robin Higgins  from  Pixabay   So you’re in need of some corporate gifts. What’s the plan? It’s important to avoid getting the wrong gift. There’s a delicate balance to strike here. Corporate gifts should be just personal enough to say “I appreciate you and/or would like for you to give me a raise.” There’s a very narrow range of gifts that send the right message without coming across as either creepy or uncaring. Obviously, you’ve got a stressful situation on your hands, and the only way to get rid of that stress is to hurry up and buy the gift already.  Now it’s time to get started, so where should you begin? Well, you could spend weeks figuring out all of the recipient’s hobbies and interests, or you could make things easier on yourself and just find out whether or not they’re allergic to nuts. Because if they’re not, that’s all you need to know to send the perfect gift. (And if they are, well, more nuts for you.)  Nuts make ...