Bid Day Gifts

SWTXBelle · #1 07-19-2007, 03:11 PM

Hey, if you decide to do that, do check out the website for the pens I mentioned - they also have bags and just about anything else you can name and they will personalize it for you!

And no, I'm not on the payroll of any of these companies, although should they want to shoot me a check, I would not say nay.

Senusret I · #2 07-19-2007, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Hey, if you decide to do that, do check out the website for the pens I mentioned - they also have bags and just about anything else you can name and they will personalize it for you!

And no, I'm not on the payroll of any of these companies, although should they want to shoot me a check, I would not say nay.

lol....i am actually looking through them right now and I like the sports bags they have. (With the exception that I'd have to get 100 at once lol)

Senusret I · #3 07-19-2007, 03:34 PM

I like this one better than the other one I posted. Also from ebay.

sunnydebs · #4 07-20-2007, 10:18 AM

Another good idea is to fill the bag with a booklet of information about the sisters in your sorority. Have each girl pair with another sister and create a page of pictures and facts about them. The book will end up really cute and the new members will love it because it will help them learn names!

AlphaFrog · #5 07-20-2007, 10:26 AM

Include a "Survival Guide" - a chapter directory, "Greek Dictionary", info about other chapters on campus (letters, nicknames, President, address), poems about sisterhood/your mascots/symbols, hazing policy, tips on being a pledge/new member/new active etc - I still have mine, and I look at it and remember spesific things about my pledge period.

ForeverRoses · #6 07-20-2007, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by sunnydebs

Another good idea is to fill the bag with a booklet of information about the sisters in your sorority. Have each girl pair with another sister and create a page of pictures and facts about them. The book will end up really cute and the new members will love it because it will help them learn names!

That is a great idea- especially if you have a really big chapter! Oh and giving the new member back anything that was used during the pref ceremony is always nice. So if the rusher wrote a letter or something to the PNM, give it to them to keep on bid day (since they can't leave the house with it after pref).

alrphimu · #7 07-20-2007, 11:43 PM

our girls always get bags, t-shirts, pens, a bumper sticker, pink gum (one of phi mu's colors) a disposable camera to capture bid day memories, a picture frame, and magnets. we also girl the girls an info pack with basic phi mu info specific to our chapter, including a list of members with phone number, phi (pledge) educators bios, exec council bios....we also have the bid day buddies give the new member a gift pack to be put together by the active with things specific to the theme of the bid day activity -- when i went through recruitment there was a wizard of oz theme (there's no place like home, with the 'o' and 'm' in 'home' represented with a phi and a mu) so i got a basket with a stuffed dog, red socks (for rollar skating that night), etc. last year our theme was barbie (every girl's dream house) and i got my bid day buddy a barbie (duh), a babie crown, etc...

Senusret I · #8 07-20-2007, 11:57 PM

Does anybody give out candy in their sorority (or fraternity) colors on bid day? Initiation?

I've been trying to find candy other than M&Ms or jelly beans, but those seem to be my best bets. It just kinda sucks that I'd have to repackage them.