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Crappy day present exchange

December 9, 2011 by andreaunplugged

The coolest thing about blogging is that there is an instant community you can become a part of. This is a story about why blogging is so awesome.

A few weeks ago, I was having a crappy day. I don’t even remember what had me down, but I remembered reading about Crappy Day Presents. (Crappy Day presents are little presents that you get from a friend and save to open when you’re having a crappy day.)

So I asked my Twitter friends if anyone wanted to do an exchange. But, the lovely lady behind Doing My Best had already proposed the very same thing a little earlier in the day. (She’s really the mastermind behind the whole Crappy Day Present movement!) So I signed right up, and started thinking of gifts to send to someone else, in hopes of making their day brighter.

And yesterday, when I got home from work, I found a key in my mailbox. That meant there was a package waiting for me. I didn’t think I was waiting for anything else in the mail, so I started getting excited. After several attempts at trying to put the key in the wrong lock, I opened one of the large mailboxes and there it was, my Crappy Day Present!

As soon as I got in the door of the apartment, I grabbed the scissors and opened the box to find this!!

I was so excited!

And since I’ve had a sore throat all week, been sleeping horribly (propped up on 2 pillows, granny style), and woken up that morning all congested, which made me have to breathe out of my mouth all day, I decided it was ok for me to open one of the presents. I opened one that had a little hole in the wrapping paper to discover some cute nail files and some lemon drop salt scrub. (I would have been trying to peep at what was inside anyway!)

I ran myself a hot bath and used the salt scrub right away.

Thank you so much to Carmen for my lovely gifts. I can’t wait to open the rest! Not that I love crappy days, but at least I know I have something to look forward to when those days come around.

Also, thanks again to Doing My Best for organizing the exchange. It was so much fun to participate.

And just in case you were wondering, here’s what I sent to my person in the exchange. I can’t tell you what everything is, because I don’t want to give anything away to the recipient (or anyone I might send a Crappy Day Present to in the future!) but I had a really fun time gathering the gifts.

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Posted in Blogging | Tagged Crappy Day Presents, I love the blogosphere | 13 Comments

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on December 9, 2011 at 4:44 pm | Reply Carmen

Oh yay! I’m glad it arrived safely (although with some torn wrapping paper–phooey). I thought about putting nice labels on them like you did, but I wanted them to be perfectly witty and wonderful and then…I couldn’t think of anything witty or wonderful. So now you just get to pick randomly based on the paper, I guess.

This is a fun exchange and I’m looking forward to receiving my box from a Mystery Person. I predict I’ll need a present on Dec 18th. My brother-in-law, my parents and my in-laws will all be at my house then and I’ll bet that a Crappy Day Present will be required after the stress of all that.
- on December 12, 2011 at 1:06 pm | Reply andreaunplugged
  
  Thanks again Carmen! No worries about the torn paper. It was just that one. I definitely agree a Crappy Day Present will be required after the family descends on your house.
on December 9, 2011 at 5:26 pm | Reply Doing My Best

Woohoo! I love it when CDP have EXCELLENT timing =)!!! (And I still think it is funny that we were both trying to set up a CDP exchange on the same day!)

The package you received and the package you sent both look GREAT! It makes me so happy to read these posts =)!
- on December 12, 2011 at 1:07 pm | Reply andreaunplugged
  
  Thanks again for organizing this. It’s been super fun. I’m already gathering up a few things to send another present out to someone.
on December 9, 2011 at 11:18 pm | Reply Elsha

Crappy Day Presents are so fun!
- on December 12, 2011 at 1:09 pm | Reply andreaunplugged
  
  Me too. I don’t know what I’ll do when I run out of presents to open.
on December 9, 2011 at 11:40 pm | Reply -R-

So fun! I love your labels on the presents you gave.
- on December 12, 2011 at 1:09 pm | Reply andreaunplugged
  
  Thanks. It was an attempt to be witty and cute!
on December 10, 2011 at 10:17 am | Reply Julie Short (@mavsmom)

Great idea…I wish I would have signed up. I could seriously use some crappy day presents as I’ve had a few of those recently.
on December 12, 2011 at 2:53 pm | Reply Lacey

Yay!! I loved your crappy day presents to me! I may have broken the rules and opened them all like it was Christmas. I couldn’t help it, patience is not my strong suit. BUT, I will find great use out of them all when I AM having a crappy day! Thanks again, and yay for new bloggy friends!
on December 14, 2011 at 2:00 pm | Reply Alice

how wonderful!! i absolutely love the internet sometimes
on January 1, 2012 at 1:29 pm | Reply Swistle

I LOVE the labels you put on!
on January 12, 2012 at 9:40 pm | Reply I opened a few crappy day presents « Andrea Unplugged

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