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So my company gives everyone in the warehouse a box of random stuff at the holidays. It's all obsolete inventory that they write up as destruction but hang onto for giveaways and stuff. What's in your box is totally random, mostly gift, games and kids' stuff. You don't know what's in it until you get home, because they give them out at the end of the shift as people leave, they have to go straight to your car, and they are not allowed to come back in the building for any reason. Last year I got a lot of stuffed animals and these little kids' kit things, which I gave to my roommate's school (they used them for a fundraiser).
This year my box is nearly all stationery stuff...I have 11 boxes of Christmas cards (145 total), 8 boxes of Vera Wang notecards (which retail for $23 or $24 each) and 2 boxes of Crane & Co. notecards, a little Jonathan Adler vase (which I always thought was cute but not cute enough to buy one), a bunch of notebooks and spiral bound journals, 5 magnetic butterfly bookmarks and 6 Harry Potter bookmarks (all the same - they are shipped in packs of 6 to the stores and the HP ones are still in their rubber band), a travel journal and 2 blue patent leather passport holders and a purple patent leather photo wallet, and these little monogram notebooks/pads (3 Vs, 2 Fs and an O, none of which letters are anywhere in my name
), photo frame cards, 5 things of (folded) wrapping paper, 2 holiday clippy booklights (snowmen and gingerbread men), a binder with hearts on it, and stickers for decorating your keyboard (skulls!), Osbert the Penguin (stuffed animal) and a 2 sound story kids books (with the sound effect buttons on a side panel ).
What the hell am I supposed to do with all this stuff? My friend's 10yo neice would probably like some of it (the heart binder and maybe bookmarks and some of the notebooks); one of the kids' books would probably be good for her nephew (he's 2; don't think he'll like My Little Pony but the other one would be good for a boy) some of it I'll keep...I'm set for Christmas cards for like the next 2 years! Maybe my mom can give some of it to her church...
Oh, here's my stash (sorry, it's a little dark, and not the pile in the bottom right corner; that's my roommate's pile of school stuff and cards on the coffee table):
This year my box is nearly all stationery stuff...I have 11 boxes of Christmas cards (145 total), 8 boxes of Vera Wang notecards (which retail for $23 or $24 each) and 2 boxes of Crane & Co. notecards, a little Jonathan Adler vase (which I always thought was cute but not cute enough to buy one), a bunch of notebooks and spiral bound journals, 5 magnetic butterfly bookmarks and 6 Harry Potter bookmarks (all the same - they are shipped in packs of 6 to the stores and the HP ones are still in their rubber band), a travel journal and 2 blue patent leather passport holders and a purple patent leather photo wallet, and these little monogram notebooks/pads (3 Vs, 2 Fs and an O, none of which letters are anywhere in my name
), photo frame cards, 5 things of (folded) wrapping paper, 2 holiday clippy booklights (snowmen and gingerbread men), a binder with hearts on it, and stickers for decorating your keyboard (skulls!), Osbert the Penguin (stuffed animal) and a 2 sound story kids books (with the sound effect buttons on a side panel ). What the hell am I supposed to do with all this stuff? My friend's 10yo neice would probably like some of it (the heart binder and maybe bookmarks and some of the notebooks); one of the kids' books would probably be good for her nephew (he's 2; don't think he'll like My Little Pony but the other one would be good for a boy) some of it I'll keep...I'm set for Christmas cards for like the next 2 years! Maybe my mom can give some of it to her church...
Oh, here's my stash (sorry, it's a little dark, and not the pile in the bottom right corner; that's my roommate's pile of school stuff and cards on the coffee table):
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