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Why Us |
| At Mixed Bag, there is no question that giving is better than receiving. Pound for pound, we'll bet any of our competitors that our gifts, gift baskets, and promotional products have the highest perceived value on the market. (Gentleman's bet only.) |
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| Our discriminating gift baskets offer creative combinations of unique, hard to find gifts. |
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- We believe that it's not the size of the gift basket, but the quality and creativity of the items therein.
- For our gift baskets, we use creative containers instead of baskets, that will be useful long after your gift stops giving.
- We have exclusive presentation. Our finished look is hip, clean artsy, classy, stylish and environmentally respectful. No tacky bows. No cheesy confetti. No Cello wrap. We promise. The giving experience begins the moment you lay eyes on the gift.
- We have exclusive gift basket lines like our 'Words Matter' book baskets and our 'Who Cares?' care packages.
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| Our unique a la carte gifts are exhaustively researched. We shop more, better and longer... |
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- Our president is a hip, stylish ex film coordinator, wife and mom who is the original purveyor of taste.
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| Our stylish promotional products are separated from the pack by blind embossing or tone on tone embroidery. |
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- We have been pleasing the scrutinizing players in the entertainment industry for ten years.
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| Our commitments |
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- We are committed to being "green" by using re-usable or recyclable products wherever possible, for our wrapping and packing.
- We work with creative boutique businesses like Mixed Bag, committed to excellence and high moral standards.
- We believe that passing on elements of our gifts, wrapping and packing, spreads good gift karma throughout the world. This is what we mean by "the gift goes on"...
- We retain random quirky facts and share them on our website.
- We believe in peace, education, tolerance, literacy and being "green."
- We love dogs!
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We're not geniuses at Mixed Bag, but we are creative. We set trends instead of following them. Okay, we missed the Cabbage Patch doll, (round one and two) and the smiley face... but we all wanted to be Mrs. Pitt before it was fashionable. We have a decade of gifting experience, which has resulted in an evolved etymology. Please, do not attempt to navigate our site before you read the important etymological definitions below.
Reminder: a noun is a person, place or thing. A verb is an action word. An adjective is a descriptive word. (Don't be insulted. We all needed these reminders for our aging brains.)
There will be a test at the end, so don't blow this off.
mixed bag gift basket noun—We are the un-basket company. We don't even use gift "baskets," we use smart, reusable containers. Things that contain. So we felt compelled to take a stab at etymological revolution, if you will. Instead of using the word "basket", we considered vessel, ensemble, sac, hold all, pouch, capsule or if you want to be really fancy, pannier. Gift panniers. It wasn't working for us. We liked vessel but it wasn't going to placate the search engines, so we came around full circle, back to gift "baskets". Our gift baskets are exhaustively researched collections of impossible to find gifts.
gift noun—a gesture of love from one person to another. verb-to gift, the act of gifting.
gifter noun—The person sending a gift. Our tireless, devoted, never say never staff.
giftee noun—the lucky gift recipient.
re-use verb—the act of re-using an element from one of our gifts for the same or another purpose.
gift karma noun—the beautiful gesture of giving a gift can be passed from one, to another, and another and so on, keeping the good gift karma alive forever.
purveyor of taste noun—our President, Cathy Stoia, whose taste in everything is king.
a la carte—we all know it's French for on its own... but we use it to identify our individual gifts that can be purchased separately from our mixed bags.
logoed verb—the act of putting a logo on a promotional product. We'll shamelessly logo anything.
holidazed adjective—the act of being in an utterly useless and frenzied state during the holidays. |
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| Our finished look is hip, clean, artsy, classy, stylish and environmentally respectful. No baskets, just smart reusable containers that will be useful long after your gift stops giving. No tacky bows. No cheesy confetti. No cello wrap. We promise. Whether it's arranging, stuffing, packing or gift-wrapping, we believe that presentation is critical. And we're okay if you think presentation is manipulative. It is. But we happen to feel that the indescribable experience of receiving and opening a gift begins the second you lay eyes on it. |
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| We work with like-minded boutique companies who have interesting products and a philosophy like ours: do it right, or don't do it at all. We have relationships with some of our vendors that have spanned a decade. These vendors have interesting personnel, exceptional products, high ethics and the belief that you do what it takes to get the job done right, no matter what it takes. We also work with a large number of companies run by women. Gentlemen, please don't be offended by this. It's not a requirement, it's just that whenever possible, we want to empower our fellow entrepreneurial sisters. |
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