The 10 Most Batshit Crazy Celebrity-Themed Gifts to Give This Year
Oh fans. You love you some bizarre stuff emblazoned with the face or likeness of your celebrity obsession of choice, don't you?
Reader Gift Guide: Cool, Smartypants Gifts for Little Girls
With Hannukkah upon us and Christmas right around the corner, we received a plea from a reader to tackle gifts for girls.
The Clean Person Holiday Gift Guide 2013
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. This holiday season she's got gift ideas for the clean, or not-so-clean, person in your life. Are you dirty? Email her.
Reader Gift Guide: What Are You Getting Yourself This Year?
You know what? Forget all those other people in your life—your BFF, your parents, your boss, your co-workers, your college roommates and all the rest of them. They are probably going to get lots of cool crap from nice people just like you this holiday season. I say, it's time to be selfish!
Reader Gift Guide: What Are You Getting Your BFF This Year?
The holidays are the only one time of the year when you can drop all those no let me pay, no really, I got it this time pretensions with your nearest and dearest and get them a gift that truly says 'I'm glad I didn't believe to all that shitty gossip about you that I spread back in the eighth grade because you are…
Reader Gift Guide: What Are You Getting Your Lov-ah This Year?
This time Thursday you'll likely be sitting down with a heaping pile of food with some people you want to kill even though you have the same genes. But maybe you'll be sitting down with people you want to kill that you don't have the same genes as because they're your significant other's family. Despite that suffering, …
Reader Gift Guide: What Are You Buying for Dad This Year?
Black Friday draweth closer and with it, the intensifying pressure to get a leg up on your holiday shopping. You know the routine: unload your wallets and stuff those stockings.
Reader Gift Guide: What Are You Getting Your Mom This Holiday Season?
It's November 25 — exactly one month until Christmas, exactly one month to watch Elf on repeat — and even if you think the gift-giving season shouldn't officially start until the turkey dinner has been reduced to leftovers, it's already happening. Black Friday and Cyber Monday — why even wait for those? Everyone's got…
Your Official Last-Minute Guide to Last-Minute Mother’s Day Gifts
Fuck, you forgot that it’s Mother’s Day, didn’t you? And now you’re thinking of trying to play it off with a quick phone call and an impromptu recitation of a found poem you’ve cobbled together from an old modernism anthology that you only half-read. Your mom will see right through that, of course, and she’ll be pissed …
Valentine's Day Provisions For The Deeply Ambivalent
As we're all aware by now, the modern incarnation of Valentine's Day is nothing more than a consumer fabrication to get us to splash out on Godiva chocolate and a bouquet of Birds of Paradise for the person we hump on the regs. However, for those of us who are single, it can still be a crappy benchmark of the year—when …
Holiday Gift Guide: What to Buy Malcontents and Misanthropes
Unfortunately, the holidays are here. The sooner we purchase presents for our favorite sad sacks, the faster they can sigh "thanks?" and we can all get back to our miserable little lives. So here's what to buy the grumpiest, grouchiest hateful little monsters in your life. If you have the sick need to keep these people…
Holiday Gift Guide: What to Buy Your Favorite Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl! We all know one, but that doesn't necessarily mean we know what to buy her for the holidays. What's the perfect gift for the free spirit who lives to inspire, dance in the rain and experience each moment with childlike wonder? Turns out that there are lots of great things. Let's have a…
Passive-Aggressive Gifts for Your Horrible Mother-in-Law
You don't get to choose your family. And so sometimes we wind up in families with people who are...less than choose-worthy. Then again, a lot of people have a lot of mother-in-laws that they like a lot! Because mother-in-laws are a lot like people (some legends hold that they actually are people!!!), which means that…
Gifts for Budding Feminists
Your favorite budding feminist's name will go down in HERtory if you buy her these awesome gifts, we swear! At the very least, she'll never say she's "not a feminist, but..." again.
Holiday Gift Guide: What to Buy Your Smug Married Friends
As you get older, you will probably find that more and more of your friends are falling in love with each other and tying the knot. Despite this being a practice that human beings have done for thousands of years, the newlyweds in your life will quite possibly act annoyingly smug and proud about their nuptials, but —…
Anthropologie: Holiday Shopping for the People You Hate
Ah, Anthropologie. It's the place you turn to when Urban Outfitters starts to feel too twee and you still can't afford real designer shit. You're in that in-between space, Anthropologie's sweet spot, and the store makes its riches by selling rags — and we fall for it hook, line, and adorable sinker rain boots (tm).…
The Ultimate Gift Guide for Crafty DIY-ers
Got some crafty people on your holiday gift list? Fear not — a present like one of these is bound to please even the pickiest of Do It Yourselfers. (And — self-interested bonus! — it virtually guarantees years of awesome knitted/crocheted/sewn or otherwise home-built gifts for you in turn.)
A good pair of scissors…Holiday Gifts for the Truly Charitable Do-Gooder in Your Life
What do you, the most unabashedly selfish and inconsiderate member of your friend group, buy this holiday season for that one person in your life whose giving is not restricted by our Gregorian calendar? To defeat the charitable people in the world, we must first understand the charitable people in the world, and the…
Holiday Gifts for the Unemployed
Shopping for an out-of-work Eeyore? Or a glass-half-full Pollyanna? Or some other children's-entertainment metaphor about being unemployed? A lot of people are slogging through joblessness this holiday season, and I'll bet they could use a little cheer right about now. Even if your friend isn't in dire,…
Gifts for Your Friend Who Thinks She's Rihanna
Is your friend the kind of girl who wears a rings above her knuckle, takes pictures of herself smoking weed, wears a bra as a shirt but also wears shirts without bras? Does she very carefully craft a look that says, "I don't give a fuck" but in reality gives quit a few fucks? Do chains and whips excite her? Answer yes to …