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Giving the perfect gift? Wrap it just right!

Gift registries can make the holidays easier, but how are they received? Credit: The Style PA, Flickr Gift registries are great for weddings, but should you set one up for your child this holiday season? Stores like Target, Pottery Barn, ...

Forget sugarplums. Your kids have Zhu Zhu Hamsters dancing in their heads. There are a few prerequisites for successfully marketing a toy during the holidays. First, it should be cute in a non-gender-specific way. Second, it should probably ...

So it is the eve before Christmas Eve and your procrastination skills have left you without gifts for a few key friends and family members. It is too late to purchase those presents online unless you are willing to dole out the big bucks for ...

What a colossal waste of money. You spend nearly five bucks for a few square yards of fancy paper which is then ripped to pieces and discarded. And as if that weren't bad enough, it's an environmental disaster as well as an economic one. All this in ...

Okay, so you survived Black Friday, got all your shopping done, and have your gifts hidden away in creative, clever places awaiting wrapping. You've warned everyone that if they try to find their presents before the big day, you'll return them and ...

So your kids are, shall we say, curious. Or maybe it's your spouse that can't keep from snooping. It could even be your sister-in-law that absolutely has to know now. Whatever your particular situation, you have to hide the presents you've bought ...

There are two reasons you might want to know what's inside of a wrapped gift: 1. You wrapped it and you forget who it's for. 2. It's for you, you don't know what's in it, and you're dying of curiosity -- or you need to know what "level" of gift it is ...

When I was growing up, my mom used to stand at the bottom of the stairs on Christmas morning, camera in hand, waiting to snap our picture as we stumbled out of bed to see what Santa brought us. It was a fun tradition I found less than charming once I ...

I've been known to frequent thrift shops. My wife and I once spent a fair bit of a Colorado vacation traveling about collecting children's tap shoes for her classroom (she is a former dance teacher). More often, however, I'm searching for vintage ...