{"id":4114,"date":"2013-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/need-quirky-gifts-try-blue-q\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T19:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:02:28","slug":"need-quirky-gifts-try-blue-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/need-quirky-gifts-try-blue-q\/","title":{"rendered":"Need Quirky Gifts? Try Blue Q"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<div class=\"figure-page_regular\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueq.com\/shop\/item\/229-productId.125845855_229-catId.117440728.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imagecache-page_regular\" src=\"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/blue-q-coin-bank.png\" alt=\"[filefield-filename]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you love to get people goofy gifts that make people laugh and smile. I&#8217;m not as arts and craftsy as Zo\u00eb and the rest of <a href=\"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/content\/about-us-page\">Team Whipped Bakeshop<\/a>, so unlike them, I can&#8217;t make hand-made gifts that are any&#8230; good. That means I usually just go ahead and buy stuff for gifts. There&#8217;s not much shame in it!<\/p>\n<p>My pick for the best place to order quirky gifts this year is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue Q<\/a>. Based in Pittsfield, MA, they design and manufacture all of their products with humor, quality and charity in mind. They are kind enough to hire folks with disabilities, and 1% of the sales from their awesome recycled bags goes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nature Conservancy<\/a>. As a writer, I really appreciate their product descriptions. They are possibly funnier than I am. Jerks.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you know anyone who needs some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueq.com\/shop\/item\/229-productId.125847100_229-catId.117440802.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">funky socks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueq.com\/shop\/item\/229-productId.125838014_229-catId.117440520.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian breath spray<\/a> or just a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueq.com\/shop\/item\/229-productId.125846453_229-catId.117440548.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">badass tote bag<\/a>, now you know where to look.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you love to get people goofy gifts that make people laugh and smile. I&#8217;m not as arts and craftsy as Zo\u00eb and the rest of Team Whipped Bakeshop, so unlike them, I can&#8217;t make hand-made gifts that are any&#8230; good. That means I usually just go ahead and buy stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/blue-q-coin-bank.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29882,"href":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/29882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whippedbakeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}