Cash – The King Of All Gifts
Is cold hard cash the king of all gifts? Well, in most cases…it is. And cash certainly rings a lot of registers which makes a lot of merchants and businesses thrive and display their ear to ear grins comes graduation season.
As some surveys show, cash is really the king when it comes to college graduation gifts. It is noteworthy that a big number of people are spending money for gifts whether for graduation or any other occasion. When combined together, the total amount of this spending can reach a whooping billions worth of the green bill! And to top it all, a big percentage of college gifts come in the form of cold hard cash to the delight of most graduates.
Due to the difficulties and the mumbo jumbos encountered when trying to look for gifts, many givers would just resort to giving cash to the graduates. Many givers would be thinking, “Hey, everyone likes cash”. That is unquestionably true in lots of cases.
Certainly, one can never go wrong with cash gifts. Wherever you are in the country, cash will always be useful and when given as gifts, they can give the recipients the autonomy of choosing what they want to buy in accordance to their needs, wishes, or whims and caprices.
Categorically speaking, cash is the most versatile gift because the recipients can do anything they like with it. They can spend it to buy that much coveted apparel, ipod, or necklace, or they could just put the money into a savings account in order to earn interest and beef up one’s financial reserves just in case the rainy days come pouring down heavy.
It is now a common fact that a big majority of the students prefer cold hard cash to be their gifts for college graduation . This is so because as said earlier, it gives them the freedom to get what they long or wish for and increase the chances of not being caught with some gifts which they already have or dislike thereby making them just pretend to appreciate such in order not to offend the gift-givers. Gheez, it cannot be denied that many people are just so lousy in choosing gifts. Even if the gifts chosen are signature apparels such as Gucci, DKNY, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Lacoste, or other branded clothes you can think of, there is that big chance that the sizes of those would not be the right fit to the recipients. What a waste, eh? To avoid this ugly situation, many have opted to give cash for college graduation just to be on the safe side.
But despite the prominence of cash gifts, it cannot be denied that there are still some that would say that cash can be the greatest but they can be somewhat impersonal considering that it can be portrayed as the lazy man’s way of giving a gift. Many disagree to this. To many gift-givers, giving cash for college graduation shows the normally picky graduates that the givers want them to get something that they would surely cherish, appreciate and use for long.
To rectify this rather impersonal charisma as some would like to view it, a lot of people are now adding a bit of personalization to the giving of cash gifts by putting the money into the now popular Chinese red envelopes or into specially made envelopes instead of the plain old typical white envelopes. Indeed, adding a bit of personalized touch to the cash gifts would surely amplify the essence of the gift giving a thousand fold.
To sum it up, when you truly want to impart a gift that will surely be appreciated even though you don’t know the graduates that well or what they like or don’t like or what they already have or don’t have, give them the king of all gifts – cold hard cash. There is a big chance that one cannot go wrong with it.
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More On Starbucks Gift Cards
When it comes to college graduation gifts, are Starbucks gift cards really that appealing to the graduates as the add-ons to their gifts? Certainly yes…in most situations.
There are some who might still not know that Starbucks gift cards have been a big hit since they came out. Many of these have been given either as gifts for a variety of occasions or together with many other graduation gifts. According to some news releases, Starbucks gift cards contributed much to the over-all sales of Starbucks much to the delight of its stockholders and other stakeholders. Around more than 100 million Starbucks gift cards have been activated and used in the U.S. and Canada alone since the last quarter of 2001 either from giving to friends or given together with college graduation gifts. Not only that, Starbucks fans and loyal customers or other recipients have reloaded their cards to a whooping 40 million times or even more. Think about the millions or billions in dollars of revenue being made. This is how immense the popularity of Starbucks gift cards is. Their stardom made them more than a commodity especially to coffee drinkers and with that, they can certainly be great with college gifts.
To delve more into why these gift cards from Starbucks became a phenomenal success, it may be a good starting ground to point out the benefits and convenience in can give to those who use them. When these cards just came emerging into the coffee chain world, many people regarded them as thoughtless gifts or just some throw away plastic cards which the recipient college graduates may not use at all. Note realizing that a great number of college students are coffee drinkers, many of these detractors were proven wrong when coffee drinking became a sudden pastime fad.
As days, months and years went by, many people have started to welcome and appreciate these cards. The Starbucks giant base of loyal patrons and other coffee aficionados have realized that these cards, which are reloadable and customizable in many ways, really come in handy. Those who don’t like to drink coffee that much have also come to realize that Starbucks gift cards can also be used to purchase other novelty items being sold at all Starbucks stores such as glass coffee mugs, tumblers, DVDs, books and much more. The convenience of using these cards made a viral effect. Many of those who aren’t sold to the idea of using these cards became converts and came by the numbers to the coffee shops.
The Starbucks gift cards mania and their unique appeal to many customers and consumers is a highly profound statement of the company’s strengths. Despite the small cluster of Starbucks cons out there, the company is very popular and is being emulated by other chains which want to jump into the cart and are now starting to create their own gift cards. More than 10,000 locations across the globe, with thousands more emerging, is a manifest of the company’s continuing growth. In big cities, one can see Starbucks coffee shops in almost every block.
Getting these cards from Starbucks is just simple. For sure, they are all sold at Starbucks coffee shops. Many have bought these cards on impulse for they can be found neatly and enticingly arranged near the cash counters. There are some who are creative and industrious enough and have been able to get these cards at much cheaper prices. Why? Simply because, they just know where to look and have the persistence to keep on looking for discounted cards or even free gift cards.
With these facts and since most of our college graduates are coffee drinkers, Starbucks gift cards are indeed ideal and can be perfect blends with our college graduation gifts.
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Starbucks Gift Cards For College – A Waste?
On some occasions, we cannot help but notice some diverse reactions coming from varied minds regarding the appropriateness of giving Starbucks gift cards as add-ons to the main college graduation gifts. For many people, Starbucks cards have been considered as very convenient to use and many people cannot even leave home without them. However, on the other vein, there are also many people who think that they are worthless and are just a waste of one’s money when it comes to gifts.
Going on a debate regarding the usefulness or worthlessness of Starbucks gift cards can be a vicious cycle with no one winning the debate. Although everyone is entitled to their own humble or fierce opinion whatever it may be, it can be a good start to measure up some of the advantages as well as some of the disadvantages of these gift cards. Whether or not one is a pro or a con when it comes to Starbucks cards being given as added touches to the gifts for graduation, there are also quite a big number of people who are just sitting on the fence and are just relying on their gut feeling.
Most of us might be able to recall that since decades ago when the world was just young and even primitive, giving of gifts in any form has been part of the traditions of most cultures all over the planet. Gifts have been known to spark some form affectionate bonding between the giver and the recipient. Since then, cash has been able to prove itself as the king when it comes to giving of gifts but many have also realized that giving of cash has become somewhat impersonal to some extent. To some, giving cash as gifts may portray that the giver has not exerted any effort in trying to look for something. Further, many have believed that graduation gifts for college have to portray some personal touch or why give them at all.
With this, brilliant ideas from Starbucks, probably the largest and most popular coffee chain all over the world, have led to the creation of Starbucks gift cards. These have been one of the great additions to the arsenal of innovative ideas of the Starbucks culture. Many competing coffee chains have started to jump into the bandwagon in order to bring out prominence in their respective brands but Starbucks has been the popular choice. Agree or Not?
Certainly, there will always pros and cons in whatever way. The haters of Starbucks gift cards have often pointed out that one has to spend more than the equivalent cash value of the card just to procure it. They have even added that many of these cards have just been left as clutter in the closets of the college graduates. Many of these cards have also just been forgotten and misplaced by the recipients which just shows that these cards are not being given due importance at all.
On the other side, the avid fans of Starbucks cards have also highlighted the countless advantages citing that these are ideal for personalizing the college graduation presents. They bet that almost all college students are coffee drinkers and no one can go wrong with these. To them, whatever bad experiences anyone had with these cards are just the exceptions rather than the rule.
There could be an endless list of pros and cons. Both sides of the fence may even go on a spree of arguments but whatever they may try to point out, no one can be right or wrong. Irregardless of what the nature these arguments are, Starbucks gift cards are undoubtedly loved by many, especially coffee drinkers young and old, and will be one of the big favourites of most societies.
For most instances, it has been the experience of many gift-givers that nothing can go wrong with one’s gifts for college when complemented by the popular gift cards from Starbucks.
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