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Holidays
At last it’s November! The holidays may seem a dream away, but in reality they are just around the corner. That means it’s great time to start saving on gifts, especially for all those hard-to-buy-for friends and relatives. Think grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers and coworkers. These are gifts you want to spend a little extra time saying “Thank You” or “I love you” or “I’m Your Secret Santa” and don’t want to end up in the back of the closet, collecting dust. An easy solution is a personalized gift, filled with the faces of family and friends, like the photo gifts available at Kodak Gallery. Find great ideas, like photo magnets, photo ornaments, prints and more, making those hard-to-buy friends easy to cross off your list.
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Happy Halloween! One of my personal favorite holidays, the perfect combination of costumes, candy, and a silly spooky good time. My friends and I throw a highly anticipated over-the-the top Pumpkin Punch and Zombie Zinfandel costume extravaganza each year. The lawn becomes a creepy ghostly graveyard and the house a blacklit Dr. Frankenstein disco room primed for the Monster Mash. Only this year, after spreading cobwebs and pumpkins and fake hands around the house, we somehow forgot an important party of the party plan: the invitations. Whoops… less than a week away, snail mail was impossible. And Facebook/email invites don’t convey magnitude of the ghoulish party people have come to expect.
That’s when we found out about JibJab, home of the funniest eCards on the web. The
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I know planning a Labor Day getaway now is kind of last minute, but some of the best trips I’ve gone on have been spur of the moment decisions. There’s something to planning out say, I don’t know, a tour of Europe that has its benefits, but it must be said that the spontaneous adventures are often the most fondly remembered. And if you just want a quick escape within your region—or country for that matter—there’s no better time than Labor Day weekend to get both three days off and some fantastic travel deals.
Expedia.com—one of my first online stops when booking tickets—for example, is offering savings of up to $450 when you book your flight and hotel together. Don’t believe me? Check it out here. Sometimes it really does pay to fly by the seat of your pants and buy a ticket
My father is not the best communicator. Let’s just say, he’s a man of few—but wise—words. I’ve learned about his interests, thoughts, and feelings mainly through my mother. I’ll often hear such phrases from her as, “Your father is really excited to see you,” and, “You know your father, he doesn’t like it when…”
Needless to say, it’s always a little difficult to find a really great Father’s Day present for him. What could I possibly get for the man who has given me so much, yet whom I know so very little about? But this year, I think I’ve finally figured it out.
What better way to bridge the gap than with a device specifically created for the exact purpose of communicating? Knowing my father and his love for deals, he would most appreciate a new,
Whoever said that all chocolate lovers are female obviously never met my uncle.
I still remember the German chocolate cake my mom made for my dad’s birthday a number of years ago. It was rich and decadent: in short, every chocoholic’s dream. Except that self-proclaimed chocoholics like me and my mom couldn’t even finish one piece. Meanwhile my uncle eagerly helped himself to seconds.
The fact that guys like chocolate too puts a whole new perspective on gift buying. Suddenly it becomes acceptable—and even desirable—to get your significant other chocolate on Valentines Day (good thing too, because in my opinion V-Day presents are the most difficult to figure out). Birthdays are fair game, and so is Father’s Day.
Speaking of Father’s Day, there are only five days left to
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