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🎁 Perfect gift already in your house

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Greetings Gift-Givers!
This is Better Gift Coach, where we remind you that your inside jokes have a lot more mileage than you may think.
Estimated read time: 1 minute & 50 seconds
Gift idea time! Here’s a story of a
great gift to spark your creativity
The “frame an inside joke" Gift
My wife and I have a recurring inside joke that I can fix things…but my fixes never look professional. She lovingly refers to them as janky. Once we unknowingly purchased a defective tube of toothpaste that was opening at the side seam as we squeezed. My successful fix was to wrap the tube in electrical tape. Knowing that she’d add this to the tally of one of my janky fixes, I added a label over the tape reading “A Patty K Jank Fix”. When we finished the tube, she begged me not to throw it out because using it brought a daily smile to her face. On our anniversary, she woke up to the toothpaste tube framed in a shadow box hung next to her sink to immortalize our inside joke.

Content tags: less than $20, workplace, tradition
Why this gift is great
Minimal effort and cost
Inside jokes often strengthen bonds
Constant source of ongoing laughter
Brainstorming your version of this gift
Make the item small enough as to not be a burden
Can also frame photos or paper items (documents, song lyrics, etc.)
Not just for S.O.’s. You likely have inside jokes with family, friends, co-workers, etc.
Making this gift happen
Who do you have inside jokes with? ______
How can your gift to them immortalize an inside joke? ______
Spread some love! Share this gift idea
Jokesters
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My attempt to send
you off with a smile
All the best,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach™
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