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The Gift Container

  
Though a gift doesn't have to have a container - e.g., a wrapper or receptacle that hide it - the hiding is what creates suspense and surprise... tantalizing layers of fun.

The traditional box-to-fit is just fine... if a little ordinary; but the wrapping can turn the ordinary into the extraordinarily interesting in a flash.  So the creative "container" is a powerful means of giving extra pleasure, even of expressing meaning - perhaps intimating some element of the inner gift, or acknowledging the receiver in some way, or even just of "mystery".

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