Twelve Months of Fruit
I have a lot of friends that I like buying for when Christmas comes. I’m the practical type, though. If you receive a gift from me, it is more than likely not going to be a knick knack that will sit and collect dust, or a cheap pen set, or dime store perfume. I like to buy gifts I know will be used and if I can find a way to do so, I like my gifts to be consumable.
I love things like the Fruit of the Month Club. I can hardly think of a single person who would not absolutely love to get a shipment of fresh fruit every month, a gift that changes each time and certainly won’t sit around gathering dust or taking up space on your mantel.
This gift is especially appropriate for my friend Sonia. She lives in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in the middle of the city, where space is limited. What room she does have is filled to the brim with stacks of books. Books are her passion. She also loves good food, though, and her kitchen is actually relatively uncluttered. By sending her five pounds of gourmet fruit each, I know she will not only love what she receives, she will also be able to enjoy it and not worry about where she is going to store it for years to come.
I live in Florida and I have an amazing array of fruit trees in my yard (star fruit, blood orange, naval orange, lemon, etc.), but it’s an awful lot of trouble to ship fruit. And, I have shipped in the winter and the things I send freeze in transit. I would rather rely on a company used to shipping fruit on a daily basis.
Plus, with an actual minimal amount of effort on my part, she will have something arrive on her doorstep 12 times this year that will remind her how much I love her. How sweet is that?
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