Valentine’s Day. A brilliant invention by candy and card companies? Or maybe this is a holiday meant to bring everyone together and keep them smiling. Think about the timeline. Maybe it looked something like this:
Six years old – “Okay class, today is Valentine’s Day. Everyone get a brown paper bag and color in your hearts and smiley faces so your classmates can fill them with lollipops and pictures and other goodies!”
Ten years old – “Happy Valentine’s Day kids, everyone gets a cardboard heart filled with chocolate!”
Sixteen years old – “You hang up first.” “No, you!” Then proceeds the “I love you” text messages.
The Compulse Integrated Marketing Office in their twenties? – “Everyone make a Valentine’s Day box so we can swap candy and chocolate and give out cute cards from preschool!”
Oh yes, folks, that was said. Yes again, that is what we really did. Okay, maybe your timeline doesn’t quite end the same way ours did, but it was so much fun!
Everyone in our office crafted a box to fill with Valentine’s Day goodies. Disney Jr. style cards with stickers, all kinds of sweets, heart pencils, and mini tubs of play-doh (they were a-doh-able!) were stuffed into the holiday boxes on everyone’s desks and we had a great day in the office. I don’t know about you, but there’s something about a constant stream of flowers and chocolate that makes me very happy.
Thanks to the clever, and may I say whimsical, minds of Tim Goodell (Digital Sales Coordinator) and Brianna Bolling (Social Media Coordinator), our office has smelt and tasted great today! Sweethearts, chocolates, lollipops – all free today! And the boxes were pretty creative, too. Those cute multicolored boxes you can buy in any store during this holiday season, collage boxes of things we liked and hearts and glitter; we even had a Captain America neighboring “Valen-tank”. Check that picture out below. The blog team’s very own Frank went all out covering a tissue box with cut out hearts!
All in all, this has been a very sweet day with friends in the office. Not to mention a great addition to the growing Compulse holiday celebration tradition in the agency.