Sentences with phrase «in gift exchanges»

I often give these for the holidays in gift exchanges or to girlfriends (they are also excellent for Mother's Day).

In any gift exchange, there is the one who offers and the one who receives.

My claim here is that asymmetrical reciprocity and non-identical repetition allow sufficiently for an element of freedom in gift exchange to distinguish it from contract.

SARANAC LAKE — The Uihlein Living Center staff chose to give time and assistance to community organizations in the Lake Placid Village this year instead of participating in a gift exchange.

A bunch of us participated in a gift exchange... View Post

For any of my girlfriends reading this and participating in a gift exchange with me, I hope you pick one of these items to bring because I want them all!

I don't remember the last time I participated in a gift exchange that wasn't a holiday function within my family.

Each Cruiser who wants to participate in the gift exchange brings a wrapped gift.

Give them what they want: The benefits of explicitness in gift exchange.

Not exact matches

As a gift recipient, it's most likely because it saves the hassle of returning the ugly sweatshirt or tacky tie to a department store and waiting in long lines to make an exchange or return.

These gestures often vary in scale and cost, but one thing I have found consistent in my years of running businesses is the astonishing amount of wastefulness due to completely irrelevant or useless gifts that end up at the bottom of a wastebasket or, worse, in a white elephant gift exchange.

In donation - based crowdfunding, an individual solicits funds from a group and in exchange gives a gift, like a tote bag or product samplIn donation - based crowdfunding, an individual solicits funds from a group and in exchange gives a gift, like a tote bag or product samplin exchange gives a gift, like a tote bag or product sample.

She would return supplies the company did not need in exchange for a gift card, which she then used to buy something small and take the remainder in cash.

Shoppers can now cash in unwanted gift cards from roughly 200 retailers, airlines and restaurants in exchange for a Walmart gift card, reports The Boston Globe.

Whether you're holiday shopping on a tight budget, or want to stock up on some good - but - cheap presents in case of a surprise gift exchange, you'd be surprised what you can get for under $ 10.

Says the team at Bradford Exchange, «Innovations in personal gifts is a secret most gift buyers don't capitalize one.

I have, in fact, participated in my fair share of shopping on the day, and I still have a few lingering items around the house that have thus far avoided the office White Elephant Gift Exchange.

World leaders typically exchange gifts, and Trump and Abe did so when Abe rushed to New York City in November to become the first foreign leader to meet with Trump after the election.

The majority of business cards come with a points or miles - based rewards program that offer you a choice of redemption options — including travel, merchandise and gift cards — in exchange for your miles or points.

The site lets people earn gift cards to Amazon and other retailers in exchange for taking surveys or watching video advertisements.

She my name in our family gift exchange and apparently she knows me quite well because it really did make for great gift.

«But if you went to a charity dinner and paid $ 1,000 per plate and the meal was valued at only $ 500, you get to deduct the difference because you actually paid more than the value you received in exchange for your «gift,»» he said.

A more subtle interpretation that fits with evidence on company performance, worker behavior, and pay is embodied in George Akerlof «s model of «gift exchange.»

Just in time for holiday parties and gift exchanges, shoppers can visit the cookie bar to fill a limited edition cookie tin, too.

Boston Market is also finding other ways to leverage its campaign by engaging with Facebook fans and encouraging votes in the election in exchange for smaller prizes, including gift cards.

They are killed and lie dead in the streets for three and a half days while the wicked of the earth rejoice in the streets and exchange gifts in celebration of their deaths.

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

Most of what passes for Christmas traditions are in fact Pagan / Heathen, like the lighted and decorate tree, candles in the windows, wreath on the door, caroling from door to door, exchanging gifts, etc..

That is why from the beginning God entrusts woman to man, «to his eyes, to his consciousness, to his sensitivity, to his heart... [and] he must in a way, ensure the same process of the exchange of the gift, the mutual interpenetration of giving and receiving as a gift.

One of these is Hannukah, a version of our Christmas, and the other is Purim, kind of like our 4th of July, but they exchange gifts in both.

So this Christmas season, revel in the exchanging of gifts, the decorated trees, the lights and glitter, the songs and poinsettia.

In both French and English this gift exchange language for sex carries the implication that one person benefitted from the other's actions.

Indeed, on the basis of Matthew 25, ordering our attention and overcoming our addiction to distraction has everything to do with our ability to recognize Christ in one another and to learn what it means to be the body of Christ, a people formed by habits of good attention, giving and exchanging the gifts of attention in a world of distraction.

Pierre Bourdieu returned repeatedly to the issue of the duality of gifts, being fascinated by how gifts are framed as expressions of relationships even as there is also a sublimated sense in which they are exchange of gift for counter-gift.

Perhaps our oldest references to how gifts are not just about relationships, but also carry a sublimated logic of exchange comes in Book VI of the Iliad, when Homer tells us about a gift exchange between two hereditary hospitality friends:

Yesterday marked the Jewish holiday of Purim, when Jews will gather together for festive meals and merriment, exchange gifts, and most centrally, assemble in synagogue for mirthful public readings of the Book of Esther — all in celebration of the salvation recounted therein.

But if, for example, at Christmas, we exchange gifts with a friend, although there is reciprocity involved, there is also asymmetry: what we receive in return may often surprise us, and whether it is equivalent will be a matter of fine judgment.

A gift to remain a gift must continuously alter, and this altering is essential to exchange; but at the same time, without the exchange of gratitude a gift is unrecognized and therefore obliterated in its effective actuality.

Brewin puts it this way: «Churches must aspire to become centers of gift exchange in the broadest sense.

Looking back now, I see that Christmas in my family — like it is in lots of families — was really a cultural event focused on the exchange of gifts.

They should provide hanging spaces for artists, venues for music of all types, forums for discussions and debates, classes for expectant mothers... whatever gifts there are in the local community, the church should be the place where these gifts can be exchanged or shared.»

In true marital intercourse, something real has been exchanged, with a full gift and acceptance of conjugal masculinity and femininity.

They picked up the idea and continued it... SO in a way Santa lives on even today... So who is to say that Santa does not exist, when the spirit of Santa lives on in parents, and families and relatives, and friends... at least a little in all over the parents and familys, and friends, that exchange gifts on Christmas...

Those who read his work will experience ecumenical dialogue, in John Paul II's words, «not simply as an exchange of ideas,» but also as «an «exchange of gifts,»» indeed, as «a dialogue of love.»

One of the reasons that people suffer hives, crying jags, drinking bouts, and plain orneriness in the Christmas season is the rules: Everyone has got to celebrate, renew family ties, exchange gifts, and above all «be happy.»

I don't celebrate Easter and I enjoy Christmas as time off with my family and an exchange of gifts as is customary whether you believe in a God (Pick one there are thousands of made up Gods) or not.

Is it not possible with the eyes of faith to see in every Christmas tree, in every wreath, in every exchange of gifts, in every instance of generosity to the needy, in every family reunion of loved ones from far and near» to see in every Christmas celebration, even of those who do not acknowledge him, remote outposts of his blessings that flow as far as the curse is found?

In the 16th century, long before becoming a widespread ingredient, beans were considered royal food, and noblemen exchanged them as gifts at special occasions.

Thanks to the folks at Blogging for Books for gifting me a copy of A Modern Way to Eat in exchange for an honest review!

My roommate and I threw our third annual Galentine's party — i.e. waffle bar + fondue extravaganza with a white elephant gift exchange (I got and am so excited to read this) and then I spent my actual V - day holed up in my room working on a bunch of finals projects and cleaning the heck out of my room.