Twitter: What are your favorite strategies for creating meaningful moments of celebration for yourself or loved ones? 🎉
(I'm terrible at this! I suspect I'm missing opportunities to amplify big moments in my/friends' lives)
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I'm not especially good at this, but I have a couple friends who are exceptional at it. Here are some things they've done:
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- decorating their apartment in silly ways (e.g. like a French restaurant to welcome me home from Europe; using a fan + confetti as fake snow to welcome someone to Canada for the first time)
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- getting a bunch of friends to record clips for a mock award show in which the recipient wins e.g. Roommate of the Year
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- paying a local business to put a special message on their billboard for a day
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- buying an absurd amount of something consumable that their friend loves (e.g. fill the freezer with ice cream)
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They're pretty relentlessly creative with this stuff, but one thing that has always struck me is how logistically easy it is to make an occasion memorable — once you have the basic conceit, all you have to do is go to the dollar store and buy a bunch of silly stuff!
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These are wonderful! Thank you for sharing.