Dear corporate hounds,
12Oct2007 Filed under: Randomata
Ever since Dre and I moved back into the gayborhood where we can walk to get coffee (him) or tea (me), we’ve suddenly found ourselves in need of more commuter mugs. I can’t STAND the idea of regularly getting tea in a to-go cup, but the idea of actually buying one makes me shiver. You’d think that since both Andreas and I work in marketing we’d have no shortage of free corporate shwaggy commuter mugs … but somehow we only have one between the two of us. Odd.
But! I know many of my friends, dotcom colleagues, and readers work for companies with great shwag commuter mugs, so I beg of you: could you share one with me? It’s win/win: I get a rotating supply of drinking containers, you get me walking around with your company’s shwag, and the world has less trash. Yay!
Leave a comment, and I’ll send you a mailing address.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Seraph
October 13th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Why don’t you just buy one? What’s scary about that?
nanirolls
October 13th, 2007 at 4:34 am
I have a proposition for you. If you send me a full-on face shot (facing the camera, 640×480 pixels, color), I will send you a very special travel mug.
Shannon
October 13th, 2007 at 8:37 am
Yeah, I don’t see what’s so scary about it .. you get to pick the pretty cup you want and you don’t look like a corporate hag. Win/win!
Ariel
October 13th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Just to clarify: I’m not shivering because it’s scary, but rather because it feels like a waste considering how many bajillions of corporate schwag mugs are out there. It’s like buying plastic bags or something.
Also, in terms of looking like a corporate hag: it’s about 10 years too late for that.
lily
October 13th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
We have a bunch. I’m going to give them to you…b/c really, they’re just gathering dust. Whee!
Imanitsud
October 16th, 2007 at 6:43 am
If you email me your address, I’ll send you a Wrox insulated travel mug. I work for the publisher, and marketing gave us one, and it’s just getting dusty in my office, so I’ll be happy to share it.
Renee
October 19th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Want a fun idea? Call a few promotional companies that put logos on travel mugs or pens or whatever. Tell them you are thinking of ordering a bunch for your company and you’d like a sample. They are happy to send you a few. Do this a few times and you’ll have a dozen (free!) mugs before you know it.
Sounds shady, I know, but sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.
Good luck!