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    Zombie Ms. Skittles: I actually am buying my fiance a gift out of TWOP's gift guide. The dude likes NCIS! more »
    Tartan_Tart: I treat them the way I treat everything else in magazines. I ooh and aah over what I like, with no regard to others, and end up not buying anything. ... more »
    randomnessish: To be fair, it WAS the gift guide from Time Out NY that alerted me to the existence of a "Cake or Death?" Eddy Izzard mug. So yeah. more »
    rodmanstreet: Ironically, I would love to find out what Simon Doonan would suggest for Christmas. He's fantastic, and I'd probably buy any number of horrible thing... more »
    judgingamy: Bust's gift guide this year was pretty good. I figured out what to get my dad from it. A record player that converts your vinyl into mp3s? That's perf... more »
    spekkle: I'm a HUGE fan of Etsy gift guides. Take that Simon! more »
    Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd): I find that gifts guides are generally based on stereotypes that have nothing to do with the people in my life. My dad hates golf and gadgets and my ... more »
    Rare Affinity: I find gift guides can be useful at Christmas when I am buying for say children or a man I don’t know that well, like my friend’s brother. more »
    callire: I wish someone out there made personalized gift guides for the people in your lives. Like, if Amazon analysed all my sister's purchases for the past... more »
    Penny: Too bad they're a PR person's dream. more »
    Lymed: Simon Doonan later found out his search for a person who likes gift guides was perhaps limited as it was conducted in Antarctica. more »
    ElleL: I don't hate them per se, but they usually help me get an idea for people. Sephora always has a great gift guide. more »
    BabyJane: I lined my litter box with holiday gift guides once, and I'll never make that mistake again. Cats, cellphones and a Sharper Image catalog made for a v... more »
    BeckySharper: I enjoy looking at all the pretty things I can't afford. And then I recycle them. more »
    brendastarlet is on it: I got a marble-based pen and pencil set from an ex one Christmas. He was a workoholic and I know that he ran down to the stationery store in his build... more »
    Madge: One year when I was about 17, my Uncle asked my mom what he should get me for Christmas and my mom said to just get some pyjamas. So Christmas morning... more »
    Maulleigh: A friend of mine gave me proactiv. It kind of hurt my feelings and pissed me off. more »
    dirtybee: Worst secret Santa gift ever: I got a coffee mug with two, TWO packets of Swiss Miss hot chocolate and marshmallows in a Ziploc bag. I wasn't good eno... more »
    Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: Pro football tickets for the whole family, for the christmas day game. So it's get out of bed on Christmas morning, and surprise, put on your coat, we... more »
    Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: My brother gave me a wretched book called The Artist's Way. It's a twelve step program for people who are unable to be creative because their parents... more »
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    Simon Says

    "People HATE gift guides... I was, in point of fact, unable to find one single person who liked them, is prompted to shop by them, looked at them or even lined the cat's litter box with them." -Simon Doonan [Observer]
  • #holidaze

    Ultimate Terrible Gift Guide: Part 2

    We asked, you answered: herewith, the second installment of our Ultimate Terrible Holiday Gift Guide: Things Not to Get the Family.
  • #giftguides

    Ultimate Terrible Gift Guide: Part 1