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Gift Basket Business World Newsletter
Your Roadmap to Tips, Resources and Tools That Increase Your Profits
August 29, 2006--Issue 107
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Last week's tip: Fish or Cut Bait: Are You Doing All You Can to Succeed?
 This week's tip: Get Back to School, One Way or Another------------------------------------------------------------
My children think I'm weird because I love school. I couldn't wait to start kindergarten when I was 4 years old. When I heard the teacher inform my mother that I was too young and would have to wait until I turned five, I went into such a fit of crying that the teacher succumbed, bent the rules and enrolled me promptly.
When I was expecting my first child I took a one year leave from teaching. I looked forward to this new baby (now 37 years old,) but on the first day of school as I watched the kids in my neighborhood filing out of their homes and walking toward the local elementary, I began to feel sad that I wasn't returning to school. So, I promptly called the school district and arranged to go back to do some substitute teaching for at least a few months.
Not everyone feels as passionate as I do about school, but if you think about school in more than one way, there are benefits waiting for you. As a gift basket designer you can view school as a source of business, as well as a way to build your own skills. Here are some ideas to get you started.
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Freshman college survival gifts
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Monthly birthday gift program for students in boarding schools and college
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Final exam study snacks
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Teacher, bus driver and PTA appreciation
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Camper care
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Thank you gifts for computer salesmen, textbook representatives and other vendors to give school personnel following big orders
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Dormitory move-in day
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Military care packages
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Tailgate parties
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Fraternity and sorority orientations and celebrations
Ready to expand your skills? In addition to classes in your local community, consider these
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Free-Ed.Net offers performance-based online classes in math, vocational, technical and lifelong learning
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