Visits: 28 Miniature livestock are a hot-ticket item this holiday season. Dear Santa, I’ve been so very good this year. Could you please bring me a miniature cow? I promise I’ll take excellent care of it. Please, please, pleaaaaaase! While …
When the Best Gift Costs Nothing at All
Visits: 41 In a season of high spirits and spirited spending, experts say focusing on sentiment over receipts is more likely to bring holiday cheer. On Christmas Eve in 2013, Elisa Stead, an American living abroad in Iceland, was ready …
Popping the Other Question: Will You Be in My Wedding Party?
Visits: 35 Brides and grooms are proposing to their close friends and family members through personalized gifts and lavish events. By the time Melanie White’s fiancé dropped to his knee in a Las Vegas speakeasy in February, she had already …
In Oman, Frankincense Still Tops Gift Lists
Visits: 37 The resin’s sweet and musky scent has been added to items like sunscreen and ice cream. Frankincense has a long history in gift giving, all the way back to the pharaohs of Egypt, Alexander the Great and at …
What’s the Best Gift You Ever Received? Here’s 6 Replies.
Visits: 40 The responses include a trip through Canada, earrings and several books. A favorite gift can be as practical as a new laptop or as profound as an introduction to one’s heritage. So, The Times asked six men and …
11 Beauty Advent Calendars We Love for 2023
Visits: 53 From merry makeup minis to sweet skincare surprises. By Lauren Knowles Date November 3, 2023 Facebook Twitter Nothing says “treat yourself” like having a beauty advent calendar to unwrap as the holidays unfold. Day after day, unboxing sweet …
Heart Accessories, Love Them or Hate Them
Visits: 23 Either way, you can’t escape them. Don’t search for heart-shaped rings on the internet. It leads you to a series of failed celebrity romances and presumably to a trail of tears: Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney, Gwen Stefani …
Day 5: How to Give a Rescue Animal as a Gift
Visits: 23 You know the scene: A child ambles downstairs in footed pajamas. She runs to unwrap her holiday presents and sheds joyful tears as she embraces a new puppy rescued from an overcrowded shelter. The music swells, hearts double …
A Brief History of the White Elephant Party
Visits: 20 Trendy, tacky or an American classic? It depends on whom — and when — you ask. Legend has it that, when the King of Siam wanted to punish one of his courtiers, he did not kill the offender. …
88 Best Gifts for Mom 2022 That’ll Show Her How Much You Care
Visits: 28 Finding the best gifts for mom can be both the easiest task (they’ll love you no matter what!) and the hardest (what do you get the woman who raised you?). How do you sum up all your love …