Cool Christmas Gifts for Officemates under 10 Dollars (or under 500 Pesos)
Oh it’s Christmas time again! And if you’re working in an office, it is very hard to escape the company’s exchanging gifts activity during the Christmas party. In some, it is compulsory. If you fail to attend the party, you still owe a gift (and will surely receive one too).
In my 15 years of being under the corporate umbrella, I have never experienced an office Christmas party whose exchanging gift value is above P1000. It must be the hard times, the economic crisis, you know. Or most likely, the money is reserved for the noche buena table than spent on office Kris Kringle. So usually, the gift value is set at P250, P300, P400 or P500.
Cool Christmas Gifts for Officemates under 10 Dollars (or under 500 Pesos)
How far can your P500 or $10 (US$1 = P44 is the current exchange rate) go when it comes to Christmas gifts for your officemates? You don’t actually have to go to Divisoria to purchase these gifts. Imagine the hours, sweat and saliva you will spend there just to purchase a gift worth P500 or less.
Two places come to mind – one is a bookstore, and the other is a tech gadget shop. In my part of the world, I’m referring to National Bookstore and CD-R King. They have stores almost anywhere.
What cool gift can you buy in the bookstore? One is a cool Parken pen with the recipient’s name engraved on it. The last time I checked, the cheapest is only worth P299 with free engraving. You may add a nifty penholder or a leatherette-covered planner.
Or you can buy books. The latest bestsellers cost a little over P500 but there are bestsellers of the previous months that cost less. Just check around if your recipient had already read that book, or is into books. They might just want an audiobook instead.
There are also affordable gifts you can buy in a tech gadget shops. A flash disk drive, and SD card or even a microSD card, can be bought at under P500. The 8gb or higher are more expensive though, but just look out for some bargains and sale items. A cooling pad for my laptop, priced between P200 – P400, is cheaper than I thought. I’d be happy to receive one this Christmas.
Now that you already have an idea of what cool Christmas gift to buy, you must hurry up as these items sell like hotcakes. But wait! Have you received your Christmas bonus already?
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December 22nd, 2011 at 10:20 pm
cagnaan bookstore has books to at a very very low price (JY mall) havent tried the other branches though