Origin: Business women's conference, October 2009
Usage: Not at all (see confessions)
Why Kept: Out of sight, Out of Mind
Destination: Housing Works Thrift Store (in a bag with a bunch of other stuff)
Comments: I've got to swear off swag. Or at least look in the bag and pick and choose what to take...inevitably it winds up being donated. The whole intention of swag is to somehow develop a relationship between a corporation and the swag recipient. Gold star to the large consulting firm that gave the touchingly analog gift of branded playing cards. (I remember playing with similar cards -- maybe a cigarette brand? -- at my grandparents' cabin in the olden days of childhood. Nostalgia.)
The real question is, why? All of the effort around the stuff and its movement, storage and manipulation: someone orders it, sends it, receives it, packs it into the gift bags, and then several hundred women shlep the stuff into our various homes and offices...and at some point, it's gonna be tossed or donated.
Confession: I feel piqued about the personal hygiene theme (it was a women's conference, sigh). And I'm keeping the toothbrush, toothpaste, and little notebook. (They might be useful.)
Coming soon: Dramatic donation of the large number of tote bags that have come with the swag from benefits and conferences. Sigh.
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