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To Wrap or not to Wrap? That is the Question!

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When you have kids, it’s inevitable that they will have friends. And it’s inevitable that those friends will have birthdays and thus birthday parties. Between pre-school and dance class and all her other after-school activities, my five year old daughter Camille has several hundred “best friends”. So Camille does a lot of birthday parties and thus, so does her daddy. I often find myself realizing about ten minutes before we are to leave for a party that I completely forgot to get a gift. Gifts are not optional. So last week I was quite proud of myself when I bought the gift during the week actually several days in advance.

So no need to stress this time. I’ve got everything under control– so I thought until about five minutes before we needed to leave for the party. I never gift wrapped the present and had no “acceptable gift wrapping paper in the house. Life is all about how you market everything, so I thought long and hard about how I was going to sell Camille on the wonderful fact that there would not be any wrapping paper. Will she even notice? If she does, let her know that daddy is saving the environment. Why should a tree die for often cranky, spoiled Amanda? Who needs the extra garbage? We are saving the planet.

As we’re leaving for the party with a Barbie Princess in my hand, Camille scolds me, “Daddy, we forgot Amanda’s gift!”. “Camille, I have the gift right here in my hand. ” “No, Daddy, you have a Barbie doll in your hand. You forgot to gift wrap it. You have to gift wrap it. ” No Cami sweetheart, I didn’t forget. I know how much you and Amanda love trees, and wrapping paper comes from trees. So we are saving a tree by not putting on wrapping paper, and this way Amanda and everyone else at the party gets to see right away what you got for her. ” Camille was pissed. She got her “you’ve got to be the stupidest father in the world face on” and just stared at me. Since, in general, Camille thinks I have a limited intelligence, she often explains things to me in analogies. “Daddy, given a present without gift wrapping it is like playing with a Barbie dolls without any Barbie clothing. It’s boring and no fun. ” I shot back, “Camille, gifts are like people, they are never as fun as you want them to be!” “Daddy, gifts are like people, they don’t want to be ugly. My gift wants some pretty wrapping paper. ” O. K. I needed to change tactics.

“Camille, you know gift wrapping paper can be quite expensive?” “Papa’s right. He says you’re cheap. You’re cheap. ” “Papa says I’m cheap? When did he say that? Just because I buy generic laundry detergent. It’s the same thing! Because I add a little bit of water to the Minute Maid Fruit Punch? It’s so sweet. ”

“Gift wrapping takes about ten minutes as well and it never looks that great unless you’re a professional gift wrapper. If you think about the thousands of gifts you wrap in a lifetime, you are spending days if not weeks of your lifetime wrapping gifts, using paper that will only be shred apart as someone excitedly sees what’s underneath. If gift wrapping paper is so important, why don’t we just give out empty boxes as gifts. Isn’t it the thought that counts? Has the world just gotten that superficial?”

Nobody was listening to my rant. Camille had left for the party with Papa, who being French, had some Chinese silk that could be used as wrapping paper hidden under the bed. Amanda was getting a beautifully wrapped Barbie doll and guess who’s probably getting an empty box for Father’s Day!

Dr. Murray Trillionaire is a reknowned world expert with doctoral degrees in Yiddish Country Music from Brigham Young University and the History of Medieval New Jersey from the University of Atlantic City. He is the founder of the psychological school of thought commonly known as Trillionairism that believes that the answers to all of mankind’s problems can be found in the lyrics of pop songs from the 80s (particularly those from Culture Club). He is a tireless advocate of getting paper mache building recognized as an Olympic sport but is not sure if it should be part of the Summer or Winter Games. Get to know more about Murray by visiting his website www. murraytrillionaire. com
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A Niche Business That Is The Costumes Retailing Business

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When you talk about one’s career, there is normally two main options open to us of either being employed or going the self employment route. Often times the lines are blurred between the two with the self employed not being truly employer only as they would in fact be employed by those who are their customers. There are nonetheless a whole lot of leeway, when it comes to being self employed especially in that you would decide your own future, and gain from your own hard work and persistence. By working on your own, you would also stand a far better chance in reaping the financial rewards that is so important in this highly monetized world that we live in today, but the downside is that should the business flop, we will be the ones who would shoulder everything too. Being self employed could either be based on skills – the many freelancers around doing everything from plumbing, construction, renovations, writing, acting, you name it – or business based, whereby you could either go the way or retailing or services. In actual fact, there are a few business that straddles both territory with a little bit of both and one such business is that of the costumes retailing business. Your retail costumes trading turns high earning self employment opportunity when you are not stick to specific costumer base. You shouldn’t specify your trade and offer chance to everybody to visit your shop for purchasing costumes of their choice. Don’t only sell the men’s costumes or children’s costumes. Neither should you focus on women’s costumes only. This decision would not be prudent and you may incur losses. If you do so, you are taking a daring step. Do remember that varied costumers are primary base of your business which flourishes due to the frequent visits and loyalty. You will observe your costumes retailing makes irrefutable mark. Your outlet can still remain specific choice for men’s, children’s or women’s costumes as you like when you keep other items there just to seek attention of everybody. Note it carefully that a specialist outlet must follow the norm in which special attention and services are provided. You should have best of the costume choices and remain updated with modern fashion trends to keep your costumer base intact. The specification can be more accurate if you select costumes for special occasions Halloween, Thanksgiving or much awaited Christian festivals. Choose all categories and enjoy best business prospects. When a customer walks into looking for a particular costume, he or she would be excepting some form of advice, and these would range from what’s appropriate, the kind of material and the costumes accessories that would go well with them. For those who specializes in women’s costumes, you can expect to have some affinity to the female body, especially in the aesthetic form of showing off the right curves. In short, you have to have a good eye for the sexy costumes without crossing the line of it being pornographic or vulgar. This is a pretty much very, very thin line and one would have to tread carefully. Should you deal with mainly women’s costumes, the sexy ones are a must notwithstanding the above constraint. You have to be wary to not packed too many of the really sexy, barred a whole lot of skin costumes to the masses, keeping it as something that is on request basis instead. You can certainly have the more popular ones as exhibits – the sexy French maids, the sexy policewomen or even the demure playboy bunny type, for example – as these normally do not offend. On and off, you could also have a “costumes show” where sexy, curvy female and male models could don these costumes to inspire and excite potential customers. Do this especially during the off seasons where there are no major costume centric festivities around the corner. Applying such innovative ideas would keep your outlet in notice before those prospective buyers whom you had entertained, and who remember your outlet whenever they prefer for men’s costumes as well as women’s costumes. They would choose your outlet to purchase costumes for flaunting their romantic moments. Most importantly your costumer base increases and anyone can be your prospective costumer.

Raymond Plona is the leading marketer for adult costumes and his store holds plenty of different thematically outfits for different occasions. Some examples are elf costumes, Thanksgiving costumes, Easter bunny costumes, poodle skirt costumes, intimate lingerie, pirate costumes and so on. Visit for more details.
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