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What to get for those on the go By BETH J. HARPAZ AP Travel Editor
NEW YORK — What’s in your bag when you take a trip? What gadgets, tools and comfort items are essential? The Associated Press crowdsourced that question on a Facebook thread as fodder for a holiday gift guide for travelers. We heard from folks around the world, from Millennials to retirees, from frequent-flying business travelers to once-ina-while vacationers. Here are their recommendations, plus a few of our favorites.
Gadgets • A universal travel adapter that converts electric current around the world. The travel store Flight 001 has a “5-in-1” color-coded adapter , $35. • Portable chargers to keep devices running on the road. Anker’s PowerCore 26800, $48, can charge an iPhone more than six times. For hikers and beach bums, Anker’s PowerPort Solar Lite , $51, was deemed the best solar charger by The New York Times’ Wirecutter product-testing company. • The Tile, $35, to keep track of belongings. Attach the Tile to an object like keys or bags, or tuck it inside a passport case or wallet, and you can locate the item with Bluetooth technology. For outdoor gear, try Tile Sport. • Tiny Bluetooth speakers, like the $28 Oontz, to fill a hotel room or vacation rental with music. • Power strip or cube tap (a cube-shaped adapter with multiple outlets) to charge multiple devices in hotel rooms and airports. • Headlamp for hiking, reading and crafting. Or the mini Lumio lamp and battery pack, which opens and closes like a book, $150.
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Flight 001 travel store’s mini-bar kit features tiny glass bottles and metal flasks for storing your favorite alcohol-and-mixer ingredients for cocktails on the road. The portable happy hour also includes a funnel, stir spoon and cocktail recipe booklet.
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The Morpher bike helmet collapses to a flat shape when not in use. It’s easy to store and carry, especially for cyclists who don’t want to lug their own helmets when they travel, but who want to use bike share systems in cities where helmets may not be provided.
• Packing cubes and ultralight nylon packing bags for organizing. Flight 001’s Spacepak bags, $42 and up, have dual compartments to separate dirty and clean clothes, and also have air vents for compression. • Hand-held scale for weighing bags. • Colorful luggage tags. • Luggage. For inexpensive and serviceable, Target and Costco; sturdy and sensible, L.L. Bean; stylish, upscale and durable, Tumi. For organized hipsters, the $220 Nomatic backpack/duffel bag. For day bags, Bagallini, LeSportsac and REI’s $33 compressible Sea To Summit Ultra-Sil Daypack. For high-tech, Bluesmart smart luggage includes a builtPacking and luggage in weight scale, a GPS tracking • Compression storage bags device, a battery to charge a so packed clothes take up less phone and laptop, and autolock room. No vacuum needed for activated by cellphone. Roomier Life Roll-Up Space Sleep Saver Bags, $16 on Amazon: • Travel pillow. The new trtl The air is expelled through an opening when they’re rolled travel pillow looks like a neck wrap rather than the tradiup.
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The trtl travel pillow supports the head and neck with a system of ribs inside a soft fleece, in a design that is very different from traditional U-shaped travel pillows.
Tile via AP tional U-shape. It supports the By attaching the Tile hardhead and neck with a system of ware to an item you don’t want ribs inside a soft fleece, $30. • Ear plugs and contoured to lose, you can use Bluetooth sleep masks that don’t crush technology to locate the item. eyelids and lashes. Travelers have begun using Tile • Bose noise-canceling head- to keep track of passports and phones: expensive at around other items on the road. $350, but the brand of choice for frequent flyers. • Soaragami armrest divid• White noise machines like er , $30. Have fun explaining it LectroFan , $35. to the stranger on the plane sitting next to you in coach. Hygiene and fitness • Travel yoga mats. • Travel-size toiletries: • Inflatable Ten Toes standtoothpaste, sunscreen, deodor- up paddleboard, $500 and up. ant, mouthwash, lotion, anti• Bike helmets that fold flat. bacterial wipes, hand sanitizer, Morpher helmets are certified lip balm, perfume, tissues. Gift safe in the United States and a Birchbox subscription for $10 Canada by the Consumer Proda month and the recipient will uct Safety Commission, $149. get five samples of personal Practical and fun care and beauty products per delivery for hair, skin and • To make a hotel room or style, all in TSA-compliant siz- vacation rental homey, a flates for carry-on liquids and gels folding mesh laundry hamper; not exceeding 3.4 ounces. plastic, fold-out flower vase • Toiletry bag that can be and 2-cup travel kettle for boilhung up upon arrival. ing water. • Tennis ball-size T Spheres, • For cocktails on the road, aromatherapy-massage balls, Flight 001 sells a $65 mini-bar can be heated or frozen, $35. Please see TRAVEL page 4
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Best presents are ones you can eat By The Culinary Institute of America For the Associated Press
Gift-giving is supposed to be fun, but if you’re an adult, by now you’ve learned that choosing gifts is one of the more stress-inducing aspects of the holiday. Luckily, here at The Culinary Institute of America, we’ve learned a no-fail strategy for gifts that keeps us on the “nice” list. Food is almost always the answer, and your holiday gift list is no exception. Edible gifts are always a huge hit, especially at busy times of the year. We can enjoy them in our pajamas at the end of a long day and they are usually something that you don’t get to eat every day. The best presents are ones that we wouldn’t get for ourselves (we’re all set on socks this year, Mom), and for food, that usually translates to something a little bit decadent, unusual, or hard-to-find. And decadent, unusual, and hard-to-find just happen to be three of the defining characteristics of a good cheese. Sure, most of us eat cheese every day. But most of us don’t eat amazing cheese every day. It’s expensive, it’s not a health food, and it’s not readily available at everyone’s local grocery store. Luckily, in today’s global marketplace, mind-blowing cheese is one click away, with high-end sellers offering delivery of the aged stuff, the grated stuff, and even the smelly stuff, right to your doorstep. Cheese preference is personal, but unless you know your loved-one’s favorites, you can never go wrong with a nice assortment. Cheeses, like wines, are hard to narrow down into a few categories, but in very general terms, you can classify them as hard, soft, and semi-soft/semi-firm. For a nice gift, if you choose one from each of those categories, you have a well-rounded selection.
Advice from cheese guru CIA instructor and cheese guru John Fischer says, “I like to have both a theme and variety at the same time. For instance, the basket could be all French items, but there should be a range of cheese from soft to aged, mild to stinky.” Themes that relate to a friend’s interest are also a fun way to ex-
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Edible gifts, such as this charcuterie box, are always a huge hit, especially at busy times of the year. plore new flavors. If they spend a week skiing in Vermont every year, give them a sampling from the state’s abundant creameries. If you just don’t know where to start, we’ve put together a collection of our favorites. Use it as a cheat sheet for a gift basket that anyone will love. For cheeses, we started with Garrotxa, a Catalan goat’s milk cheese that is semifirm (so, not dry like an aged Manchego, but not soft and runny). It has a touch of sweetness to contrast its peppery flavor that makes it an ideal dessert cheese, though it’s no slouch at a cocktail party. Next, we chose a Camembert. This one is more familiar to even indifferent cheese-eaters. It is soft and creamy, with an edible, bloomy rind (yes, it’s mold. No, it is not gross). Though Camembert comes from the same-named region in France, true Camemberts are becoming harder to find, due to increased regulations on raw milk
airplane. • Rain ponchos that fold into tiny flat squares. • Disposable underwear. Continued from page 2 • Pashmina or cotton print kit with tiny glass bottles, met- scarf, for warmth, modesty or al flasks, stir spoon, funnel and even as a picnic or beach blanrecipe booklet. The vials are ket. sized to be TSA-compliant, but Gift cards, etc. remember that it’s not legal to • Surprise someone in a desdrink your own booze on an
cheeses. Luckily, several American dairies are producing Camembert-style cheeses that hold up to the classic iteration. Finally, the little Bijou from Vermont Creamery is made in the style of a traditional French Crottin de Chavignol. This soft-ripened goat cheese is velvety in its creaminess, slightly tart, and relatively mild. You might think goat cheese isn’t your thing, but this is not like the dollops of chevre you’ve picked out of your salad. Man cannot live on cheese alone (we’ve tried), so a good cheese basket will include some companions. Charcuterie items, like dried salamis, cured meats, and pates, are all good friends of a flavorful cheese. And don’t forget the crusty bread or good crackers and accompaniments like quince paste, stone-ground mustard, or even homemade apple butter. If you really like the person, you could include a bottle of wine, but then you’re really setting a high bar for next year.
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would on any booking site. More than 350 airlines participate. • For Disney fans, the Gift of Disney Vacations program can pay for an experience, ticket or entire vacation at a Disney park. • Kindle or iTunes gift card. • Priority Pass membership for airport lounges.
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Be life of holiday party with DNA gifts By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Stumped about holiday gifts? Reach for the stuff of life itself. Gifts made of or merely related to DNA have multiplied over the last several years as interest in genealogy has picked up. You’ve got your basics, like coffee mugs and T-shirts with ye old double helix on them, but there are other things to order, wrap up and hand over as gifts. Some ideas:
Human DNA kits Yes, we’re talking saliva for the holidays. Oprah Winfrey was taken by one kit in particular, the Ancestry kit from a company called 23andMe . She put the kit on her 2017 list of her favorite things. According to some reviews, the kit has a good number of features, as does one from Ancestry.com, which boasts the world’s largest DNA network to reveal ancestors and where they came from. The 23andMe company, named for the 23 chromosomes in human DNA, also has a health kit to identify genetic risks and whether a person is a carrier of certain inherited conditions. The process of saliva collection is painless and straightforward at 23andMe, starting at buying the kit for $99. A gift recipient would then register at the company’s website, spit into a tube provided and return the sample with a prepaid label and box.
Dog DNA kits Because who doesn’t want to know the genetic makeup of man’s best friend. For $199, a company called Embark makes a dog DNA test that generates a report it says will identify everything from geographic origin to personality traits through the tracking of more than 200,000 genetic markers. Another company, Orivet Genetic Pet
This art from DNA111 was created out of human DNA.
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Care, will do the same, including disease testing kit and instructions on how a gift screening, breed identification and pure- recipient can get it done in colorful yarns. Everything is on Helix.com. The DNA bred profiles, including parentage confirkit is $80 and the one-of-a-kind knitted mation, for $85. scarf is $149.99. DNA wall art Colors can be selected to represent The company DNA11 has been around each of four DNA bases: adenine, thysince 2005. It produces via a mouth swab mine, cytosine and guanine. The machine method of DNA collection colorful framed washable scarves are a mix of Italian wool canvas art for hanging and smaller ver- and acrylics. sions for desk display based on the samEach scarf comes with a card detailing ples. Several size options are available, as 33 genetic traits based on the saliva sample are a range of color schemes. Prices range submitted for analysis. It also comes with from $199 to $649. a booklet that explains the basics of DNA The DNA of several people can be com- and how the subject’s DNA was translated bined into one canvas or split into two to create the pattern on the scarf. screens for couples. The company delivers Coffee mug winner to 29 countries. Key chains, double helix lamps, jewelDNA for the neck ry and wall prints — the DNA gift options Who doesn’t need a scarf crafted around are endless. One black coffee mug with a one’s genetic code? A London company, green, blue and red double helix design Dotone.io, will help a gifter out , partnering says it all: “Stop Copying Me!” Available with another company, Helix, to provide a on Amazon for $17.95.
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With the hectic pace of today’s busy lifestyles, is it really all that surprising that people everywhere are craving new smart technologies? After all, life basically demands that you save time and money wherever you can, and smart technologies utilized in your home deliver both. It’s easy, right? Research shows one-third of Americans plan to buy smart home devices this season, and while you may not find much value in a “smart egg tray” (yes, they are real), the following devices can help you save time and money while increasing the functionality of your home. 1. Smart thermostats save you money. Few pieces of smart home technology can have a bigger impact on your home all year long than a smart thermostat. Honeywell’s Lyric T5 saves you energy by managing your home’s temperature for you. Using geofencing, the Lyric T5 saves you money by putting the thermostat into energy-saving mode when someone leaves, and detecting when the first person is nearing the home to start making the home comfortable ahead of his or her arrival. 2. Smart lights, a bright idea. Forgetting to turn the lights off when you leave a room or your home is a common occurrence. Unfortunately, your power company never forgets your energy usage, and this simple mistake will show up promptly on your bill. Installing smart lights like Philips Hue light bulbs allows you to turn the lights off and on with your smartphone, meaning no matter where you are, reducing your energy usage and expense is as easy as flicking a switch. You can also schedule them to turn on, even when you’re not home, which gives the appearance of someone being home, increasing your home’s security. 3. Security you can feel safe about. Whether it’s a baby crying or a smoke alarm, when
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Honeywell’s Lyric T5 saves you energy by managing your home’s temperature for you.
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Installing smart lights like Philips Hue light bulbs allows you to turn the lights off and on with your smartphone. something’s wrong, you want to know immediately. That’s where Honeywell’s Lyric C2 security camera delivers. This smart security camera does more than just pick up such noises and deliver smart alerts to your phone. It is also equipped to differentiate between sounds so you know exactly what has happened at home. This allows you to stay on top of things and keep an eye on your home no matter
where you are. 4. Clean efficiently with smart cleaning technology. Vacuuming isn’t at the top of your list when it comes to ways to spend your free time, so automating the process may just be the best holiday present of all. iRobot’s Wi-Fi connected robotic vacuums, such as the Roomba 900 Series, are capable of cleaning and navigating an entire level of a home, recharging and resuming as needed until the job is done — all with just the push of a button on the robot or in the iRobot HOME App. Wi-Fi connected Roomba vacuums can also be controlled by voice-activated commands via Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant devices, making communicating with your Roomba a breeze. A full fleet of smart sensors guide the Roomba around your home, making 60 decisions every second, traveling under furniture and around that clutter you’ve been meaning to pick up — when you finally have a free moment.
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Coffee-table books go-to choice for readers By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Know a book lover with a coffee table and a passion? Then you’re good to go on a gift. Coffee-table books aren’t usually high on the self-purchase priority list but they can make great holiday gifts if chosen carefully. Some suggestions:
Fashion and style • Russell Westbrook, because why not? That’s the catchphrase of the NBA superstar who is one stylish guy and has put together a great book offering a glimpse into his world, celebrating trendsetters he admires along the way. Peep the baby photo of Westbrook in the back, gold chain on point, in “Russell Westbrook: Style Drivers,” Rizzoli New York, $55. Westbrook inspires in images, chunky quotes from the style drivers he has chosen and some product placement tracing his fashion collaborations. One of the most adorable moments: then-first lady Michelle Obama hugging Westbrook after he and his fellow Team USA members took gold at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. • The House of Dior is marking 70 years in fashion and there’s one special book for your Dior lover that covers a lot of ground: “Dior: The House of Dior, Seventy Years of Haute Couture,” National Gallery of Victoria, $65. The companion to an exhibition at the gallery in Melbourne, Australia, includes Christian Dior in his own words, including his passion for flowers carried over from his childhood. The book starts at the beginning, in 1947, and includes an inside look at the atelier. Eras are broken down by creative directors, including Yves Saint Laurent from 1957 to 1960 and John Galliano, from 1996 to 2011, straight on through to the first woman to head the house, today’s Maria Grazia Chiuri, named last year. • Speaking of anniversaries, Harper’s Bazaar is marking 150 years and the book, “Harper’s Bazaar 150 Years: The Greatest Moments,” captures some of the stars in modeling, fashion
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“Good News, Part II” design and photography who helped shape the magazine over the decades. From Abrams, retailing at $65, the book offers some muchneeded cultural context, such as editor Glenda Bailey’s letter that ran soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. What, she mused, are we to feel for fashion right now? Her answer is the notion that the “exuberance that is fashion has its own role to play — even in (especially in) the worst of times.” There are first ladies, supermodels and a William Wegman dog wearing a Piaget diamond necklace and looking mighty haute couture.
Photography and art • Rihanna bathed in red, Havana light. A pregnant Melania Trump in a golden bikini. Neil Patrick Harris with a large snake’s tail down his pants. Welcome to “Annie Leibo-
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“Annie Leibovitz Portraits: 2005-2016” ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS These are visual recordings, tableaux featuring famous figures mostly in stunning color, including some memorable foldouts. The first volume includes a decade of unseen work. The second book has LaChappelle contemplating mortality and paradise. Tupac Shakur, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, the entire Kardashian-Jenner clan and Isabella Blow included. • Based on an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” D.A.P./ Distributed Art Publishers, $27.46, explores the years between 1963 and 1983 through the eyes of mostly black artists. The meaning of black identity, debates over “black art” in pamphlets and magazines, work by Faith Ringgold and Romare Bearden, and essays detailing the lives and roles of numerous others included. Also included is what went on during those years behind the scenes to boost the visibility of African-American artists in museum collections and exhibitions and to promote the rise of African-Americans to museum leadership roles. Key to that effort was the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, which also worked to secure funding for prison art programs in the 1970s following the 1971 uprising at Attica State Prison.
vitz: Portraits 2005-2016,” the third volume in a series by the famed photographer. The book, from Phaidon, includes 150 photographs of artists, performers, writers, athletes, politicians and scientists, including LeBron James and his “chosen” tattoo and a stunning, stripped-down profile of Lupita Nyong’o close up. It’s a heavy lift, weight-wise and at $110, but it pretty much defines gifty coffee-table books for culture vultures. • David LaChappelle. Is he the Magritte of his surreal, celebrity fueled world? As Richard Avedon, another famous photographer, muses in The New York Times, the potential is there. Taschen has the honor of publishing the long-awaited last two installments in Etcetera LaChappelle’s five-book anthology, “Lost + Found, Part I” • “200 Women Who Will and “Good News, Part II,” sold Change the Way You See the separately at $69.99 each. Please see BOOKS page 11
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“Obama: An Intimate Portrait” “Prince: A Private View”
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World,” Chronicle Books, $50. A collection of the famous and unknown, celebrated and marginalized, from activists and actors to authors and everyday women. They answer the same five questions about themselves and the world, accompanied by portraits. Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Ashley Judd and Alfre Woodard included. • “Prince: A Private View,” St. Martin’s Press, $35. The late
icon’s trusted photographer and videographer, Afshin Shahidi, offers up the staged, candid and in-concert moments he captured and serves them up in stories and images from their time together spanning 2001 to 2010. Few details were lost on Shahidi and he shares freely. He includes more than 100 never-before-seen photos. • “Obama: An Intimate Portrait,” Little, Brown and Co., $28.99. Through the lens of Pete Souza, Obama’s chief official White House photographer for eight years. The former president wrote the foreword: “Over those eight years, Pete became more than my photographer — he became a friend, a confidant, and a brother.”
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ter aeration because as wine breathes, it opens up and releases its intended aromas and flavors. This device can quickly aerate an entire bottle of wine or one glass at a time. You can find it at www.vinturi.com for $29.99. 4. For a slice of the good life, there’s a rugged, commercial-quality, electric food slicer made of die-cast aluminum. It provides excellent stability and rigidity for accurate slicing, a tilted design for fast, efficient slicing, and a professional metal food pusher. There’s a high-quality, multipurpose, stainless steel serrated blade 8½ inches in diameter, a blade cover for reduced friction and easier slicing, and a powerful, cool-running, high-torque motor for continuous, nonstop slicing. The easy-clean design — blade, blade cover, food carriage, food pusher, food deflector and thickness guide plate all remove easily — is matched by the cantilever design that delivers sliced food directly to large trays or platters. Chef’s Choice Electric Food Slicer Model 610 costs $129.99 and even comes with its own serving tray. Learn more at www.chefschoice.com. 5. Popcorn is a delicious and healthy way to enjoy snack time. You can eat it plain or indulge with butter and season-
ings. This Air Crazy Hot Air Popcorn Popper 82418R by West Bend requires no oil. It pops up to four quarts of healthful, delicious popcorn in three minutes using hot air, making it a great addition to any dinner party, backyard BBQ or winter’s night in front of the fire. America’s favorite popcorn popper, it measures 5.5 inches wide by 5.3 inches long by 12 inches high and is constructed with a durable and BPAfree plastic housing. The popper features a powerful 1,400-watt motor to fully pop a family-sized portion in less than two minutes. The butter cup also works as a measuring cup, so you can accurately measure a 1-quart single portion or a 4-quart family-sized serving, and the heat from the popper melts the butter within the cup so you can drizzle it on your popcorn for a delicious theater-style treat. It costs only $29.99 and you can learn more about it at www.westbend.com. 6. Get the real scoop on holiday cheer with Zeroll, the original scoop of choice for American ice cream parlors and ice cream lovers since 1935. It’s an excellent tool for creating nicely rounded ice cream balls — scoop after scoop — because it features an acclaimed liquid-filled, heat-conductive
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A cool way to celebrate the holidays or any time is with a sweet, round scoop of ice cream delivered by the original heatconductive ice cream scoop.
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Customized subscription boxes are all the rage, and now there is one just for girls who love fashion. kidpik is the perfect time-saving solution for giving a gift that delivers lots of excitement and style all year round.
Just her style Exclusively for girls in sizes 4 to 14, a new box is delivered to her door on a schedule you choose, so the gifts just keep on coming. Each box is personalized and styled just for her, filled with head-to-toe fashionable girls’ clothing. She’ll get five pieces of clothing, footwear and accessories — seven pieces in all to make up three mix-and-match, coordinated outfits — plus a surprise gift. Taking the difficulty out of shopping, kidpik makes moms’ and girls’ lives more convenient, stylish and fun. Shipping is free, and there are no styling fees. You only pay for what you keep, so she can try before you buy. Keep the whole box and receive a 30 percent dis-
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Giving back Your girl can experience the joy of giving. The company’s charity partnership with the Good+ Foundation lets girls donate any of their fashion items, North American Precis Syndicate sending them back in a prepaid kidpik is the ultimate subscrip- envelope. It’s a win-win—you get a 30 percent discount for tion box for girls who love fashion. keeping the entire box and girls count, making kidpik a great val- in need get brand-new clothing. ue for high-quality girls fashion. Gain family time For the first time this year, Have a special girls’ outing. kidpik is offering pre-styled gift boxes, making giving even Take your girl to lunch or get more of a breeze. You can order manicures. The sky is the limit one box at a time and all you with all the time and stress you saved. Let the stylists do the need to know is the girl’s size. work and you enjoy some qualAs unique as she ity time with your girl. To see the collections or to Whether she favors classic, trendy, girly or active looks, kid- sign up, go to www.kidpik.com. pik stylists will hand “pik” her Remember, you pay only for fashion box, just for her. You can what you keep and the service start the journey by creating her is risk free.
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Brighten the holiday season for everyone on your shopping list with this sleigh full of gift ideas. With an assortment of thoughtful options, you can find everything you need to wrap up the seemingly endless quest of finding the right presents. Check those names off your list and find space under the tree for gifts ranging from boxes of baked goods or steaks to a robotic car that teaches kids about programing to wardrobe accessories like boots and watches and even a wireless tech accessory for tunes on the go. Find more gift ideas that can bring holiday cheer to everyone on your list at eLivingToday.com.
Gift of good taste Take the guesswork out of giving with The Kansas City Steak Company’s Filet Mignon Gift Box, which includes four 8-ounce Super Trimmed Filet Mignon, cut from the finest Midwestern beef available and hand-trimmed for upscale quality and flavor. Items arrive in a signature gift box with an Original Steak Seasoning packet and a Kansas City Steak Book. Use the code GIFTFORYOU for a discount and free shipping, and find more gift ideas at KansasCitySteaks.com.
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Bring a smile to a loved one’s face by giving the gift of a sweet treat this holiday season with Dancing Deer Baking Co.’s scratch-baked cookies and brownies. With a blend of traditional artisan baking and unique flavor combinations, these baked goods come in packaged gifts perfect for the holiday season, such as the STEM in motion Classic Deer Gift Hamper. Use Put science, technology, en- the code DEERJOY at checkout gineering and math (STEM) for 30 percent off your holiday subjects into motion this holi- gift purchase, and find more in-
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