Gifteer covered with snow!

This Christmas was amazing, with tons of gifts coming straight from Gifteer. Now is time to ski and play in the snow.
Gifteer is now wearing its Winter snow coat!

Don’t forget to delete the gifts you got for Christmas.

Christmas landed on Gifteer

We know this time of the year: it’s cold, one can see snow capping nearby mountains, and we can’t help thinking about skiing.
But more than anything else, it Chrissssssstmas!!!
At Gifteer, it means a new Christmas look and feel.

Brrrrrr it is cold! But gifts are on their way!

Christmas is coming fast!

Christmas is coming… make sure that your wishes are up to date on www.gifteer.com!
Gifteer, it’s always the best way to make sure that you get the gifts you really want for Christmas! We advise you to clean up your wishes, in case you know a gift is already granted.

So let’s got to www.gifteer.com!

Your letter to Santa Claus

It’s time to write your letter to Santa Claus, by adding wishes to your Gifteer wish list. Here are a some advice:

• Add as many wishes as possible, so that your friends and family will have a lot to choose from, and you won’t feel like imposing this or that gift. And you will still be surprised!
• Share your wish list on your favorite social networks: Facebook, Twitter, ….
• Create wish lists for your kids
• Email your wish list by copying the URL of your wish list

Best site for daddys’ gifts

Ok, let’s face it: gifts are often a moms’ thing. We, dads, are usually fairly late when it comes to organizing gifts for our kids, ourselves, or our spouses. We’re always way behind on this…
Fortunately, our spouses can manage our wish lists in Gifteer, to let our families know what we want (say, our mom is getting anxious to know what she should get us for Christmas…).
So if you don’t use Gifteer, at least send your spouse They will enter your wish list and share them with the world!

Best site for Christmas

Here they are: the mighty toys catalog! They fill out our mailboxes, mesmerize our kids and scare the parents.
But thank God there’s Gifteer.
All you have to do is to sit down with your daughter, ask her what she wants for Christmas, and enter all her wishes in her delegate account. Then if someone asks you what she wants for Christmas, all you’ll have to do is email them the URL of her wish list!
Isn’t life easier with Gifteer?

Who would dare to sell their Christmas presents?

A lot of people, it turns out!
Although this is still a delicate subject in most families, a lot of people are turning to gift selling to get rid off not-so-great gifts in order to generate some quick cash and buy the gifts they really wanted! Selling a gift is better than leaving it in the drawer for ever!
With Gifteer you avoid these extra steps and make sure you get the presents you really want. So next time someone brings up the subject of gift selling, tell them about Gifteer!

Clean up your wish lists

It’s time to clean up your wish lists and remove all these great gifts you got for Christmas, just to make sure you won’t get them again next year!
You should start adding new wishes right away to prepare for your birthday

A remember our Gifteer advice: put as many wishes as possible, so your friends will have plenty of choice and you will still be surprised when you open the box!

A brief history of Christmas - Part III

This post follows two previous ones, here and here. Thanks to Muriel Banz for this post.

Transformation and evolution of a myth

At the end of the XVIth century, the christian society found more appropriate to replace Saint Nicolas by the Infant Jesus or Christkindel, closer to the real meaning of the 24th december and the religious event.

Christkindel was represented by a young children, dressed in white, which given the presents. He was followed by an awful caracters, Hans Trapp, which role was to beat the nasty childrens.

In the city appeared markets. The oldest one (16th century) is the one in Strasbourg: Christenkindelmarket. At the of the XIXth century, the festivities of Christmas and the Nativity were losing their religious features to the profit of commercial ones. Christmas became a festival for the family, for the childrens, and also for everyone: believers and non-believers.

This two major christmas figures (Santa Nicolas and Christkindel) were brought together by the american press and illustrations, and especially by Clement Clarke Moore, who described in “A visit from St. Nicolas” a famous poem of 1823 Santa Claus as a curious little elf, who goes inside the chemneys, and travels through the air in a miniature sleigh pulled by 8 reindeers.

In 1860, Thomas Nast, an famous American illustrator gave him his white fur and his wide leather belt. The official residence of Santa Claus was known in 1885 : he settled at the North Pole, where was also his toy factory.

The final touch was brought by Haddon Sundblom in 1931 though the Coca Cola ads. During almost 35 years, the Coca Cola compagny used a re-looked mythic character for its campaigns all over the world. The new Santa Claus had a more jovial air, sympathetic face and a human stature…

A brief history of Christmas - Part III

This post follows two previous ones, here and here. Thanks to Muriel Banz for this post.

Transformation and evolution of a myth

At the end of the XVIth century, the christian society found more appropriate to replace Saint Nicolas by the Infant Jesus or Christkindel, closer to the real meaning of the 24th december and the religious event.

Christkindel was represented by a young children, dressed in white, which given the presents. He was followed by an awful caracters, Hans Trapp, which role was to beat the nasty childrens.

In the city appeared markets. The oldest one (16th century) is the one in Strasbourg: Christenkindelmarket. At the of the XIXth century, the festivities of Christmas and the Nativity were losing their religious features to the profit of commercial ones. Christmas became a festival for the family, for the childrens, and also for everyone: believers and non-believers.

This two major christmas figures (Santa Nicolas and Christkindel) were brought together by the american press and illustrations, and especially by Clement Clarke Moore, who described in “A visit from St. Nicolas” a famous poem of 1823 Santa Claus as a curious little elf, who goes inside the chemneys, and travels through the air in a miniature sleigh pulled by 8 reindeers.

In 1860, Thomas Nast, an famous American illustrator gave him his white fur and his wide leather belt. The official residence of Santa Claus was known in 1885 : he settled at the North Pole, where was also his toy factory.

The final touch was brought by Haddon Sundblom in 1931 though the Coca Cola ads. During almost 35 years, the Coca Cola compagny used a re-looked mythic character for its campaigns all over the world. The new Santa Claus had a more jovial air, sympathetic face and a human stature…