tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3229583188222536563.post5071347565815853687..comments2023-05-26T03:03:18.496-07:00Comments on The Garden Gate~: A Bit Of Etiquette Training~Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3229583188222536563.post-80584125969362026252009-10-18T14:42:17.572-07:002009-10-18T14:42:17.572-07:00I have to tell you about the strangest gift I ever...I have to tell you about the strangest gift I ever received and the circumstances. I had run one of my Christmas seminars at the ladies Christmas party for the church we were attending. I had spoken on the subject of giving gifts and wrapping them beautifully. I had taken along lots of gifts and had them on display to give ladies ideas for gifts and to show how a simple gift could be made special by the way it was presented.Later that evening we chose our gift from under the tree - every lady had brought along a wrapped gift to place under the tree for someone else to be blessed by - it had to cost less than $5. I had taken along a candle set and wrapped it creatively and lots of the ladies received candles, soaps, sweet biscuits, that sort of thing. My gift looked like it was toiletries but when I unwrapped it, lo and behold, it was a smelly gift but it wasn't lavender talc, rather a tub of fish fertilizer! It actually looked as if it had been sitting in someones shed for a long time, the container was grubby and a bit battered and possibly even used and resealed! I was not sure if it had been intended as a joke or if the person had forgotten to buy a gift and thought that all women garden and would appreciate fish fertilizer! All the ladies around me were speechless and some could not help laughing, after all I had just spoken on putting thought into the gifts you choose - I didn't even have a garden at the time so the fertilizer was not even useful to me! Of course, I did not know who the giver was but it gave me the idea of reminding ladies at future seminars if buying for a mystery gift activity to think about a gift that would appeal to a wide range of people!Ann at eightacresofedenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15524581927752695509noreply@blogger.com