Gifts that Give Twice and Then Keep on Giving
A Submission by Fair Trade Ambassador Ruby Peters for the #YouAreKnown Advent Contest
For a presentation I was giving to a Catholic Women’s group who wanted to do a Community Order, I brought an assortment of CRS Fair Trade products to the meeting so people could see the variety and quality of the items. A mother/daughter pair were looking at the products with Christmas gift-giving in mind. 
They were checking out the puzzle boxes from India, one of which was a cat, when the older lady asked her daughter if her cat-loving granddaughter would like that as a Christmas gift. Both agreed that she would, but then the daughter suggested she instead buy 8 heart-shaped puzzle boxes, so as to give one to each of her grandchildren with a personal note to enclose in the box. I told her that I thought that would be a treasured gift for a lifetime and she had very lucky grandkids! When she picked up the 8 boxes I had ordered for her, she thanked me many times for solving her Christmas gift-giving dilemma.
I told that story to the people at a Fair Trade Sale the next week and a woman thought it was such a great idea, she ordered 9 of them for HER grandchildren! I’m imagining those grandkids reading and re-reading those notes many years from now. Gifts that never stop giving!
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