The entire TOM BIHN crew wishes you a Happy New Year.

Reminder: Shipping and Customer Service will be closed today (Dec 31st) and tomorrow (Jan 1st). We will open again on Wednesday, January 2nd.

Casey processes and packages your orders in our TOM BIHN Seattle
headquarters. He also has the important job of ordering the Cougar
Mountain cookies which we’ve been giving away in each shipment.
(His favorite is Classic Chocolate Chip.) He is an awesome shipper
and we are glad that he’s a part of our team.

To learn more about Casey, visit our About Us page.

Excerpt: “Casey’s shipping skills are on par with Rainman’s ability
to calculate. In his spare time, he enjoys: collecting records and
mixing music……”

Read Tom’s story about the first Utility Tote (made out of that yellow boat canvas and turquoise nylon webbing) and see new pictures of all available color combinations of the Utility Tote (sorry, no yellow boat canvas with turquoise nylon webbing) on the Utility Tote page.

Our Seattle retail store will be open tomorrow, Saturday, December 1st from 12:00pm – 4:00pm. See you then!

For directions to our store and its address, visit our Contact page.

It’s a fact: TOM BIHN bags make great gifts, and this season you can feel even better about the giving. After you add the bag you’re buying as a gift to your shopping basket, you’ll have the option of adding gift boxing for an additional $5. Our gift box is a sturdy, high-quality cardboard display box (die-cut to our specifications in here in Washington). It’s decorated with original, designed-by-Tom luggage label style stickers (including a holiday sticker designed specially for the gift box) and our signature airplane logo card.

The best part? For every $5 Gift Box, we’ll donate $10 to the Adopt-A-Minefield campaign, an effort to resolve the global landmine crisis.

To order gift boxing, just check off the Gift Box option on the basket contents screen, and add your personalized gift message and any special instructions you have for us. For more information, visit our Holiday Page.

Our Holiday Page is up and full of all kinds of interesting information on gift boxing, gift certificates, holiday shipping, holiday closures, and more. Check it out!

XSBaggage & Co. is a Port Angeles based business that makes handmade bags, belts, headbands, wallets, and checkbook covers out of colorful and printed fabrics.
They recently toured our TOM BIHN Seattle factory: you can read all about their tour and see their pictures of our factory here.

“While some folks are engaged in a frenetic buying spree, we’ve decided to take the day off, take the dogs for a walk and relax. My company doesn’t offer any discounts or coupons: we figure that if you like our bags and want to give them as gifts, that’s great, but discounts just aren’t our deal.

This holiday season, we want to focus on giving. The charity our company has chosen to support this year is the Adopt-A-Minefield campaign, an effort to solve the global landmine crisis. All around the world, innocent civilians, often children (and yes, animals too) are injured or killed by these left-overs of armed conflict. Adopt-A-Minefield is working to remedy this unacceptable state of affairs.

When you place a gift order through our Web site this holiday season and select gift boxing for $5, you’ll be supporting Adopt-A-Minefield, too.

Here’s how: late next week you’ll have the option of adding gift boxing to your order for an additional $5. That $5 will be donated to Adopt-A-Minefield. Better yet, our company has decided to match that $5, increasing the donation to Adopt-A-Minefield to $10 per gift box order.

Our gift box is a sturdy, high-quality cardboard display box (die-cut to our specifications in here in Washington). It’s decorated with original, designed-by-me (Tom Bihn) luggage label style stickers (including a holiday sticker designed specially for the gift box) and our signature airplane logo card.

Stay tuned: in the next few days, we’ll be posting preview pictures of the new Synapse backpack, unveiling a new gift certificate system, officially offering gift boxing, and sending out our November email newsletter. Until then: have a great weekend!” – Tom and the dogs

From everyone here at TOM BIHN to all of you out there: have a great Thanksgiving or Free-Range Organic Turkey or Tofurky or Non-Holiday Day tomorrow.

Make sure to check our Web site/this blog the Friday after Thanksgiving (Nov. 23rd) — we plan to have more than a few announcements. In addition, we will send out our November email newsletter that Friday, so check your inbox as well. (It’s not too late to sign up to the mailing list.)

Our Seattle retail store (and shipping/customer service center) will be closed on Thursday, November 22nd and Friday, November 23rd. We will reopen with our normal business hours on Monday, Nov. 26th. In December, our Seattle retail store will be open the first four Saturdays of the month from 12:00pm-4:00pm. For more schedule information, visit our Schedule/Contact page.

Just a reminder that our Seattle retail store/factory showroom will be open this Saturday, October 20th, from 8:00am – 2:00pm.