Burlap Gift Bags

Burlap sacks and bags can be found at most craft and hardware stores. These bags are the perfect base for a non-traditional gift bag idea. There are several steps you can take to transform a standard burlap sack into something unique and extraordinary. One step is to stitch a design into the burlap. If you do not have the time to stitch a design you can always choose to paint a design directly onto the burlap. Buttons and ribbon can add a special flare for folk art style gifts.  If the gift is a country, folk art or primitive themed gift then burlap is the way to go.

Flour Sack Gift Bags

Flour sacks are a non-traditional gift bag idea that is seldom used. The truth is, flour sacks are easy to find and very easy to transform into a unique gift bag for larger gifts. The flour sack material will hold a color easily and fabric pens offer a vibrant color touch for the more artistically minded gift giver. The flour sack gift bag is perfect for holding multiple gifts. If you have a student moving into a dorm or someone moving into their first apartment, then a flour sack gift bag can be the perfect non-traditional gift bag that can be reused as well.

Duct Tape Gift Bags

Duct tape is the first thing people think of when they consider a quick repair. However, duct tape may not be the first thought when it comes to gift bags and gift giving. This is what makes a duct tape gift bag one of the most unique and non-traditional gift bag ideas around. Duct tape comes in a variety of colors, styles and patterns. You can even find Hello Kitty and Bob the Builder duct tape to create gift bags for kids. If you have a carpenter or outdoorsman with an upcoming gift giving event, then consider a duct tape gift bag made from camouflage colored duct tape. It will be a unique and non-traditional way to pay homage to the things that make an outdoorsman tick.

Recycled Denim Gift Bags

Recycling jeans to make a denim purse or denim skirt is a common craft trick. You can use that same style of recycling, orupcycling, to transform an old pair of jeans into a recycled denim gift bag that is perfect for the casual guy or girl in your life. By simply cutting off the jeans and sewing them across the bottom you can create a non-traditional and amazingly unique gift bag for any occasion. You can use a pretty ribbon for the handle of your denim gift bag or you can even use another part of the blue jeans to make a handle.This is a great bag for a summer gift, outdoors themed gift or for a friend’s  housewarming.

Beer Box Gift Bags

They have been called “The Man’s Gift Bag” and honestly they are the perfect non-traditional option to the standard gift bag. Using a suitcase size beer box with some decorative tissue paper and filling this non-traditional creation with football, baseball or other sports themed gift items is a great way to make a hit at the next sports party. However, you may find your favorite male is a bit upset that the beer is gone, so always have a backup case!

Business Minded

If you have a business and package items as gifts for your customers, you may want to consider some of the above options. It is important to recognize the various ways you can be unique and draw customs in to your business. There are many factors to consider such as how custom printing adds value to your packaging, the color of packaging, etc. Business owners should research their options and use some of the ideas above to create unique packaging options so customers instantly visit when in need of a gift!

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To understand the effect promotional bags may have on their environment, t can be useful to do some lateral thinking. Let’s start by imagining a typical physical shopping environment. This is the place where promotional bags are most likely to be found. When you shop online, you might get a branded packet but you don’t get a bag – because you are not likely to be carrying your parcel anywhere.

The typical shopping environment does one of two things – it either contains multiple stores, or just one. The single store environment is commonly a supermarket – most other large stores cluster together in industrial estates and retail parks. So we can except the supermarket from our general example, as a unique shop type.

Supermarkets fulfil a specific and unalterable human need – the need for food. Their bags are often seen only by other shoppers at the same supermarket, unless the shopper then walks through the street with them (unlikely when a weekly shop has just been done) or gets on a form of public transport. Where most people are driving to and from a supermarket, the advertising value of its promotional bags becomes almost zero, Instead, they serve as a reminder to the shopper to use the same supermarket again next week – particularly if they then kick about the house for seven days, being reused as bin bags.

Outside of this atypical shopping environment, though, we have the norm of a cluster of shops. It is reasonable to assume that a large percentage of the people passing through the mule-shop environment (whether it is a high street or a retail park) are there for the purpose of shopping.

Where these people see large concentrations of promotional bags from a single shop in their immediate environment, the existence of that shop begins to extend beyond its own boundaries. It is no longer true that shoppers have to be looking for it, or to walk past it before they think about it. If every other person they pass is carrying a bag emblazoned with its logo, they’ll be thinking about it way before they see it.

Now let us assume that a person who has come out with the express purpose of shopping is already in a spending frame of mind. Therefore, any “endorsements” he or she sees from other shoppers (who are, however temporarily, effectively part of a clan or tribe whose purpose is to shop) for specific stores may make a subliminal difference between the shops he or she chooses to go in and the ones he or she does not.

All of this is predicated in the idea that the shops whose promotional bags our hypothetical shopper is now seeing, have already raised their brand profile through other advertising avenues. The combination of these two events may prompt a shopper to choose one over another.

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