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Gift Guides, Products We Love, Shop
December 9, 2019
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7 Seriously Cool Last-Minute Gifts

Each year, I make it my personal mission to find gifts that are not only easy on the eyes, but also unique and useful. You know, something that…

Shop
December 7, 2019
6 Minute Read

Our Parents Already Have Everything—Here’s What We’re Giving Them For Christmas

Each year, after the gifts I’ve selected for most of my family have been wrapped and set under the tree, I’m left with the same unchecked…

Products We Love
December 4, 2019
3 Minute Read

End the Stocking Stuffers Junk Wars and Give These Games Instead

Confession time: I love Christmas and gift-giving and traditions, but I hate putting together items for my kids’ stockings. I always seem to…

Living
December 2, 2019
2 Minute Read

Church’s Clever Viral Video Reminds Us the Best Presents This Christmas Aren’t Under the Tree

Black Friday sales have come and gone. Cyber Monday deals and steals flooded your inbox as the calendar turned to December. The mall is a zoo, and…

Gift Guides, Products We Love
November 12, 2019
5 Minute Read

Dear Family, Our Kids Don’t Need More Toys, Let’s Come Together to Get Something Really Awesome

Dear family, What I’m about to say comes from a place of absolute love and appreciation, with a smidge of overwhelmed-mama desperation thrown…

Gift Guides, Products We Love
October 29, 2019
5 Minute Read

The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Subscription Boxes for Everyone On Your List

Subscription boxes are allllll the rage these days⁠—and for good reason. They’re unique, they’re exciting, and by definition,…

Living
December 19, 2018
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2 Minute Read

A Former Retail Worker’s Holiday Shopping Plea: Be Kind to the People Helping You This Week

Through my early twenties, I worked in customer service as a gas station clerk and a waitress, and let me just say one thing. The customer is NOT…

Humor, Journal
December 8, 2017
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4 Minute Read

Dear Target, From Now On We Can Only Meet Online

Dear Target, I stopped in for a visit today, naively thinking that we could spend some quality time together. The kids and I were in the spirit…

Living, Style
December 21, 2015
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4 Minute Read

Last Minute Tips to Avoiding Stressful Shopping This Holiday Season

Let’s face it: Very few of us enjoy holiday shopping. Crowded malls, rude sales clerks, and pushy shoppers make it very hard to find pleasure in…

Kids, Living
November 19, 2015
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4 Minute Read

Operation Secondhand Christmas

I don’t know about you, but 2015 has been a year full of, “Oops!” “What?!” and the ever more dreaded, “Oh…