Huh?

I know.  It was a great little “who’s on first” conversation that the boy and I had.

“Where did you get these?” he asked, as he peered in the box filled with several packages of M&Ms with a personal message from me.

“My M&Ms,” I said.

“No, My M&Ms,” he stated.

“Right, My M&Ms,” I replied.

“No!  MY M-AND-Ms,” he slowly spoke out to me as if I couldn’t understand him.  “Where - DID - YOU - GET- THEM?”

It was then that I realized that we were going around in circles.  I wanted to keep going, just to get a good laugh, but I didn’t.  If I recall correctly, I would’ve kept going, but one of the four children demanded my attention.

He never pulled them out of the box and admitted that he didn’t want anyone, anyone being one of the four kids, to know that he had received candy in the mail.  He secretly took them upstairs to his room, and as I saw him walk by, his box full of candy messages tucked under his arm and protected as if he were a quarterback with a football, he winked and mouthed, “My M&Ms.”

Later that evening, when the kids were all occupied with a movie he asked how I had gotten them.

It was then that I revealed my secret.  “mymms.com,” I said.

“But how did you get the little messages on there?” he asked.

“Well, I took a pen and wrote it on all of them…”

I got the look.  I’m sure you know the look that I am speaking of.

“Oh, shoot.  That’s nothing!  I could’ve put my picture, or our picture, or a picture of the kids on them as well, but I had a deadline if I wanted it to arrive before Christmas.”  And it was true, I had wanted them to get there a day or two before Christmas because he was chomping at the bit for Christmas to arrive, had guessed already the coolest toy that I had purchased for him, and wanted something that would surprise him.  “I just went to their website and selected the colors, what I wanted to type on them, the packaging and paid for it.  Easy peasy.”

And it was.  It was one of the simplest personalization orders that I’ve ever done online.  My M&Ms makes it easy for you to select the colors that you wish to have in your package, giving you preset combinations for things such as “sweetheart”, “party”, “wedding”, and “holiday cheer” among others or allows you to chose from 22 different color combinations.  They even tell you which colors are best to use for printing.

To upload a picture took a bit more time, not on the site, but because I’m anal and I didn’t want to put just any picture on the candy, so I opted not to stress over it before placing my order.

I ordered on the 19th and the package arrived on his doorstep on the 23rd.  The order was just as I had placed it and it was received better than I thought it would be.  It’s gifts like these, when I get something for him that no one else has, or has thought of, that he looks at me like I’m a genius.  Although, I have to admit, he didn’t like the MnMs nearly as much as he liked the Nerf Machine gun that was under the tree for him Christmas morning.  But that’s okay.

My M&Ms is a great way to send something personal to a loved one, family, friends, or you could even use it as an advertising tool.  I recommended to the big dogs at the tv stations that I work for that these would be great things to mail out to potential clients to stand out, or current clients just as a way to say thank you.  (They even have a business section to help business customers use these as a marketing tool!)

So, if you’re looking for something for Valentine’s Day or just to say something a little differently, I highly recommend My M&Ms.  I’ll be ordering from them again, before Valentine’s Day, too, but this time, it will be for the kids.  I can’t wait to see their faces when they realize that there are messages for them on the candy.  I’m thinking of writing something like, “Clean your room” on one and “Don’t pick your nose” on the other.

What do you think?

Until next time…

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