Re-gifting: a holiday faux pas, yet environmentally acceptable

So, you’re at a holiday party and are taking part in the Secret Santa gift exchange.  Wrapping paper is flying everywhere as people open their gifts.  Anticipating a practical or fun gift, you open yours and look….it’s a battery-operated singing fish that hangs on the wall!  As you put on your phoniest smile ever and silently curse the person who could have given this to you, you’re figuring out the next person you could pass this on to. 

 

Passing on unwanted gifts can save you money and resources and reduce the amount of waste headed for landfills.  Below is the link to a Newsweek article that talks more about re-gifting and its environmental benefits: http://www.newsweek.com/id/174311?gt1=43002

 

Tell us the worst gift you ever received and gave away. (Clearly, it was to someone you didn’t like!)

Teacher’s Creative Advertising

As a marketing professional, I might be weirded out a bit to purchase ad space on a senior final exam to get the word out about our Teen Green savings accounts. 

 

Click the following link to see what happened when suburban San Diego school teacher, Tom Farber, sold ads on his test papers: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, and $30 for a semester final:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-12-01-test-ads_N.htm?se=yahoorefer

 

This might be the start of a trend for more schools across the nation.  Funny…this isn’t far off from the Golden Arches I saw on a report card recently!

 

What do you think about this teacher’s creative advertising?  Send me your comments!