I do’nt know what the suggested price limit is, when I talk about stocking fillers for my grown up children I mean everything that isn’t their main present such as pyjamas, alcohol, etc etc so everyones idea may be different in value.
I don’t think there was a price limit on the totd for stocking filler, may be good idea for another time though.
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Just looking at todays, which is ‘Christmas Jewellery’. There is all manner of jewellery, not specifically Christmas, though all could potentially be a Christmas present . Maybe that was the intention , but I would have interperated it as specifically Christmas items e.g Santa earrings or Mince pie brooches etc. Otherwise it could just have been called ‘jewellery’. If a title is intended to be more specific, and thus make Theme of the Day more meaningful, then somehow we need a third column on the Theme of the Day list explaining what sort of items it is intended for. But that makes more work for Folksy staff, so may not be very practical. Just tossing around ideas here - not to be critical or complaining, just observing and wondering and thinking aloud (well not aloud, but by typing!)
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Well… this is quite specific, the subject is “christmas jewellery”, the tag is “christmas jewellery”, so it seems like some people intentionally used the tag (in some cases), to get to the theme of the day, despite the fact that the jewellery might not have anything to do with christmas (apart from being worn, or gifted during christmas, as it would on any other day). Let’s be honest, we are grown ups here, and no matter what the theme is, no matter how specific the tag is, no matter how much effort folksy staff will put into something like this, if we want to find a “window” and make our items fit in most themes, we can do it. I can easily tag my gift pouches because you can gift the christmas jewellery in them! Everyone can interpret it as they like, but we all know what we are doing and why. Simple. Should we do it? No. Do we do it? Yes. Do we really need to come to a point where we need a telling off? It seems so… To me, It just ruins something that is there to help us get seen and an idea of possible promotion for our SM. But sometimes you do rip what you sow, and when adults act like toddlers, the sowing can get quite messy… That’s my opinion anyway. I was thrilled when I discovered the theme of the day. Such a nice idea that I can use when my items fit to post about them again on my SM, make the boards, etc. It’s just a shame it gets ruined by our greediness.
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And just to prove my point that the problem is us sellers abusing the theme of the day feature, had a look on today’s tag, which is stockings… hilarious… stocking fillers have magically transformed to stockings… some of them are not either a stocking filler or a stocking, tried hard to find a connection and can’t… 
Imagine going to a shop asking the staff for a christmas jumper and they come back with knitting needles… marvellous…
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Been on about this for years Mina. The best thing would be to limit the number you can add ie.3 items and as mentioned before make it more specific, so harder to add to tags.
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The worst thing is that that there are people who have genuinely tagged stockings that have ended up on page 8 of the listings. Out of 429 items there are 283 items that are either stockings or have stockings on the item, the rest are either fillers or something completely different.
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I didn’t use the tag stockings as I genuinely do not have any stockings to sell
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When I saw Stockings on the list, I took that to mean actual stockings, or pictures etc of them, because we had already had one called Stocking Fillers - pretty obvious. But I also thought I expect some people would tag their stocking fillers … and yes, I was right!
As has been said, the problem basically lies with human nature.
There are some steps Folksy might be able to take (as suggested on here) to make TOTD more meaningful and more useful to potential buyers, but we know they are busy with all that NIreland stuff at the mo, and then they have the Stats to sort out (mine havent updated for nearly a week now ), so TOTD is probably low priority .
Tomorrow’s is Colourful Christmas , which is general and vague enough to cover most Christmas related things, though I am sure there will be plenty of colourful things that arent necessarily Christmassy. The following is Gifts for makers, that should be clear, but again I am sure there will be the approach that if something (ie anything!) can be given as a gift then of course it could be given to a maker ! We shall see!!
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In its current form, the Theme of the Day is pointless. It either ends up with items included, that bare no relationship to the theme, or the theme is so vague that it ends up with thousands of items included. The theme needs to be more specific, and it needs to limit the number of entries per shop. In regard to human nature, I think people are just trying anything, in the hope of circumventing the declining sales on Folksy over the past few years.
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As Caroline @Caroleecrafts says, it really needs to be limited per shop and some kind of unique component to the tag if it’s ever going to create the kind of shopping experience we all want it to be.
Although some people may be purposefully using the tags to try anything to get seen, I’m sure that the vast majority are just down to how tags have been written originally when people are listing their things - you make connections in your mind and sometimes just use what comes into it or connects with a line of thought you’re having because you’re stumped for ‘proper’ tag ideas: “knitting needles - err…would love to find some in my Christmas STOCKING! Yeah, I’ll use stocking!”: 
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It just needs a little bit of thought before choosing the actual wording.
Stockings … plural … would not have included the very popular and obvious
Stocking. … Singular… Fillers.
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I agree with other comments, totd tags need to be more specific, I do think sometimes it is a genuine mistake especially if listings have been copied and easy to miss but I also agree some people just tag away to be included.
…if any bears appear under stockings I have no idea at all how they got there
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Looking good today lots of genuine crafty gifts 
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Wow, 55 pages worth on theme of the day today. No potential customer is going to trawl through that lot, rendering it pointless again.
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I cannot think of a logical answer for all of this…for example last year or the year before, the theme word was “landscape” and as I have dozens of them in my shop, there were a lot of them featured for the theme of the day. I didn’t specifically tag them…it was the expected tag for me when listing a landscape
IF I didn’t use this tag , then people might not find my work when coming to folksy and using the search bar…
So how could anyone separate an expected tag from a Theme of the Day tag…??
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I think the suggestion is the tag should be more specific. I do not object to say your landscapes being shown. The problem is when the word landscape is put on something that is totally irrelevant and has been done deliberately to get on the totd pages.
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If you read through the thread, the suggestions are that a) the tag is more specific, i.e. Landscapes Dec 2024 as opposed to just landscapes. This would eliminate whole shops being included. And b) a limit on the number of items that a shop can list in the theme of the day, which would stop the Theme of the Day having so many entries and being rendered pointless.
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Get ready for tomorrows, ‘handmade jewellery’, isn’t it all supposed to be handmade on Folksy! There is no attempt to narrow it down at all, like ‘jewellery with purple stone’ or ‘wire wrapped jewellery’ or crocheted jewellery’ so that other colours and techniques could be used throughout the year. Same goes for landscapes, could be winter landscapes, autumn landscapes , urban landscapes rural landscapes etc.
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YES… how very silly 
It won’t find any of mine as i wouldn’t dream of tagging as ‘handmade jewellery’ as of course everything for sale on Folksy is handmade, surely
That is debatable!
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