Bribing Your Kid's Way Into Preschool Is a Complicated Business
Rich people in New York continue to be the worst, this time with wealthy parents bribing teachers and administrators for coveted spots at private schools, particularly pre-schools, with expensive gifts.
Buy a Fried Chicken Scented Candle for the Dieting Relative You Hate
There is now, thanks to the dual triumph of American gluttony AND ingenuity, a scented candle that, when set aflame, gives off the sweet, crispy aroma of fried chicken. The hapless victims of your gifting laziness at least deserve a candle that will start a few awkward conversations and trick them into thinking…
How to Deal With Expensive Gifts From Your Friends
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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…
Print Your Child a Creepy 3-D Alien Doll This Holiday Season
The "toy shop of the future" involves customizable 3-D printed dolls, apparently. Cool in theory, but they look like creepy aliens in reality. (They are bone white and have pointed ears and I think they're going to collaborate with the bionic mannequins and take over the world.)
Skip Amazon: 11 Indie Gifts to Give Instead
Shop is an experiment from the biz minds at Jezebel (so to be clear, this is not editorial). Every once in awhile, we'll bring you content about unique products or stores. Today's contributor is Erica Cerulo from Of a Kind, an NYC-based startup that curates products from fresh, independent designers.
Socks…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…
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).…
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…
Pinterest Gifts Users with Private Boards for the Holidays So That You Can Keep All Those Presents You Can't Afford a Secret
Pinterest, the fan site for British playwright Harold Pinter, is giving its users a holiday treat by allowing them to keep private pinboards in order to categorize ideal gifts for loved ones. A Pinterest spokesperson told Today, "As pinners prepare for the holiday season, they'll be able to create up to three secret…
Screw You, Slanket: It's All About the Pajancho
But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the sun? Well, shut the fucking blinds because it's pajancho time! The natural melding of pajamas and poncho, the only strange thing about the pajancho is that the world has waited this long.
Being a Teacher in China Sounds a Little Like Being in the Mafia
It may seem sometimes like America treats its teachers like emulsified shit, which is why it may also seem impossible to imagine a world in which teachers are so well-respected, they're bribed like mafia dons with cash and designer handbags, a world in which parents defer to teachers, a world in which teachers are…
Finally, Some Man Candles for the Man in Your Life
Father's Day may have come and gone, but fortunately Yankee Candle's special collection of "man candles" (yes, seriously) are still available for all of your masculine odor-masking needs. With scents like "2x4" and "Riding Mower"—which both smell like exactly what you'd expect—you can cater to the stereotypical…
Mr. Clean Ad Tries to Enlist a Legion of ‘Man Maids’ for Mother’s Day
The first question we might be asking about this terribly misguided ad from Mr. Clean is what sort of weird, Oedipal relationship does a son have with his mother where he dresses like the Brawny towel paper dude's less brawny younger brother in order to clean mom's house? Thankfully, Mr. Clean doesn't want sons to…

