A fun site that's loaded with helpful tips & tricks from "people in the know" is called Tricks of the Trade.

The site has been on hiatus for over 6 months now, but there's still a lot of valuable data in the archives!

Here are some of my favorites...

Here's another word to add to your spellchecker: REGIFTING

When it first appeared, the phenomenon of regifting took on rather negative overtones due to its association with deception, i.e. the idea that by regifting you were not only deceiving the recipient, but also the person who originally gave you the gift by not being honest about the fact that you didn't want it. However, the increasing popularity of the word and its more recent link to Internet-based auctions has made the phenomenon of regifting more acceptable, and brought with it more light-hearted, humorous overtones. --Source

It seems that's just about where things ARE here in Nashville, Tennessee!

Here's how it all went down...

This may be old news by now, but I still think it's interesting to see the ways that churches are reaching out to people these days...