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Must have book for the season: Green Christmas: How to Have a Joyous, Eco-Friendly Holiday Season (Paperback)

The holidays, between November and January, are the busiest times of the year. With all the preparations going on, imagine the amount of garbage and energy we consume for this period alone.

This book will help  us celebrate an eco-friendly holiday season properly, whilst still enjoying the holidays!

• Product Description
  As green awareness spreads over middle America, more and more people want to have a fun, environmentally responsible holiday. This book shows how to enjoy the Christmas season while leaving a smaller carbon footprint. Readers will learn how to do the following: choose between a real tree and an artificial one; find alternatives to holiday cards; avoid the holiday catalog crunch; find or make gifts that are green or teach green; have warm, cozy green fires; create eco-responsible lighting displays, and more! Readers can have a great holiday celebration—while caring for the planet and setting a great example for generations to come.
• About the Author
  Jennifer Basye Sander has been creating successful book products since 1983. Since then she has worked in all aspects of the book publishing business. She is the author, co-author, or ghost writer of more than thirty books. Peter Sander is an author, researcher, and consultant in the fields of business, location reference, and personal finance.

And as with anything eco-friendly, the suggestions to this book can be reused and recycled for the next holidays…so, this would make a good Christmas present as well!

$7.95 at Amazon

These are appropriate things to give to school age children, so you will definitely earn more appreciation by putting these in little kids’ stockings. But surprisingly, a cousin of mine who is a mom herself, was too excited to find these colored pencils. And I thought, why not gift these to adults, too?

• Silly Scents Pencils add an extra dimension to creativity and fun! With zany names and scents, these Pencils will spark children’s imaginations and keep them laughing!
• True To Life Pencils are these unique tri-color colored pencils add an earthy mix of colors to commonly created nature scenes. They represent a mix of colors and shades inspired by earth’s natural surroundings. Includes 8 different colored pencils.
• Crayola Heads’n Tails Pencils, kids can double their creativity with double the colors! Each Pencil has two shades of each color, giving kids more choices for more colorful creations!

Add a coloring book into the mix and you’re set. It’s an unconventional (possibly) throw-away stocking present to give adults, right? But I know for a fact that crayons and coloring books help relieve stress among us older people. I don’t know about you, but stuff like these bring out the child in me. It’s fun, it’s relaxing and it promotes visual pleasure.

Check the Crayola website to locate these products or buy them online for under $4.00 each.

If you’d like something different to wrap your presents for the holidays, check out Dots & Jots‘ selection of Mix and Match Gift Bags. The designs are for all occasions and they come pretty handy for when you’re doing your last minute shopping.

Each kit costs under $10 and contains different patterns of:

• 4 large bags
• 4 medium bags
• 4 small bags
• a sticker sheet

The designs are from Denyse Schmidt.

Via Chronicle Books

Parents know the dilemma of dressing up little children. I don’t know about you but I usually get clothes that are a size bigger for practicality. Kids grow up really fast and clothes don’t come cheap. So with loose clothes, like pants, for instance, I usually have a belt to put on. Except that with me, kids don’t stay still for too long to have their belts put on properly. And some of them don’t even want to wear belts.

The Dapper Snapper is the quick solution to this. It’s like half a belt which you can snap on to the waist of the pants of your child. Because it takes one or two snaps, you eliminate the fuzz and the whining from impatient little kids. It comes in a variety of colors which helps spruce up the little one’s wardrobe.

For Christmas, drop a couple of these onto your family or friend’s Christmas Stockings. Those co-workers with kids at home will definitely have a lot of use for the Dapper Snapper.
The Dapper Snapper is found here.

It’s a couple of weeks more before Christmas. Have you gone over your shopping list? Do you have anything to stuff the Christmas stockings with?  I’ll try and offer you a couple of suggestions…

First on the list is this reusable bags from Flip and Tumble.

I find bags like these really very useful when I’m out shopping myself.  I no longer go home with 10 or so bags of items I’ve hoard at the mall. With these reusable or recyclable bags, I leave the shop with just one bag and all of what I’ve purchased in it. When not in use, the bag is foldable to a size so small, you can slip it inside your purse, or the glove compartment.

There are two styles of these reusable bags from Flip and Tumble — the 24/7 bag ($12) and the loopt ($6).

Use it when shopping at the mall or doing the groceries, this bag is super convenient and a lot colorful, too!

I’m sure your friends will appreciate this small but very useful token from you this Christmas.

Hosting a baby shower requires a lot of hard work. You’d have to plan for food and entertainment, most especially.

Prepare and make this a very memorable occasion for the mom to be and her friends, by hosting one party that’s fun and different with the help of this Baby Shower Box of Questions kit.

The kit includes some unusual thought provoking questions to keep the party going and to learn more about the star of the party —

• Who among the parents’ friends will be the baby’s worst influences?
• If you could have any song playing when your baby entered the world what would it be?
• What is the best piece of advice to help an expectant mother get through childbirth?

The question cards are made from recycled material.

$20.00 at Uncommon Goods.

Keep your household clean and green with this GreenLemonaide Gift Basket. It is packed with a number of eco-friendly cleaning tools and cost saving items, including the following:

• an energy efficient power strip
• a tire pressure gauge
• a faucet aerator
• compact fluorescent light bulbs

It’s not just about cleaning using safe and products from chemical-free materials. It is also about using and conserving energy.

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Barack Obama is becoming such a brand now that if he isn’t going to be elected the next US President, there’s merchandising to fall back on. Look at these Obama items I’ve found online!

Today’s economic situation is forcing a lot of us to go back to basics when it comes to saving our money. When I say back to basics, I mean saving money in coin banks. Is coin banks going to be a very popular item again? Are they back on demand?

Although, if we’re speaking of saving, many of these coin banks (as pictured) may set you back on cost. Loose change isn’t enough to even buy some of it. But compared to regular jars which I’m sure many of us use at home, these selections do look better displayed in the living room. And unlike jars, too… there will probably be a little hesitation on breaking this one with a hammer. Thus, you keep your coins safe where they are.

Photo from If It’s Hip, It’s Here

For product specs and prices see this site.

Some people hate the rain so much they probably wanna curse it. Or curse the other people who splashes rain puddle on you while they are happily sitting in their car, all dry and warm.

The Fuck the Rain Umbrella (pardon the French!) is available on this site. While it’s a merchandise made in China, the  item can be shipped in most places in the world.

Retail price:
55.47  US$ approximately
35.25  € approximately

Designers: Artemy Lebedev, Anton Schnaider

• Comfortable handle allows you to clasp it to your backpack when it’s not raining
• Automatic open/close
• 100% polyester

Here’s what the umbrella looks from the top:

It’s quite useful and gratifying especially when you’re having one of those days and you just want to give the universe a shout out, right?

RueLaLa is an exclusive by-invitation only shopping site where you can enjoy a different kind of shop therapy! Every two days, there’s a new boutique holding a sale there. Many of the items are in season and high end but at discounted prices. And RueLala was also kind enough to extend this exclusive invitation to you!

More details — the press release, the shopping code and the sale date information —  follow after the cut.

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I’m not quite sure if this is a gag gift or one that is practically useful. But I know that in some offices, a lot of food at the common office fridge end up being eaten by somebody else. This plastic bag poses a solution. Because who would wanna eat somebody’s moldy sandwich?

Available at SKForLee just email for pricing.

Who wouldn’t want to have the Shemergency kit? It has all the essentials we definitely need:

• a folding hair brush with mirror
• hair spray
• clear elastics
• earring backs
• hand lotion
• nail clipper
• an emery board
• clear nail polish
• nail polish remover
• a mending kit
• a safety pin
• double-sided tape
• lint remover
• shoe shine wipes
• stain remover
• static remover
• breath freshener
• lip balm
• dental floss
• pain reliever
• deodorant wipes
• a tampon
• adhesive bandages
• facial tissues

Keep one in your bag or your office drawer. Or better yet, gift this among your girlfriends, they’ll love it!

The Shemergency bag will set you back $22.00 only.

From See Jane Work

Miniature perfumes… it’s a good way to sample scents and fragrances without having to spend a lot of money, especially with the limits of purchasing power today. When traveling a lot, it’s also better to bring along a smaller bottle than the bigger ones.

I found a good collection of miniature perfumes at Perfumeloft, and yes these are original scents. Perfumeloft also has gift sets and bath products at great discounts.

OH MY DOG by Dog Generation For Unisex Launched by the design house of Dog Generation in OH MY DOG by Dog Generation is classified as a fragrance. This unisex scent posesses a blend of: It is recommended for wear. Price: $3.99 for .23 oz $8.49 for 1.7 oz	COOL WATER by Davidoff For WomenLaunched by the design house of Davidoff in 1996 COOL WATER by Davidoff is classified as a flowery fragrance. This feminine scent possess a blend of: citrus pineapple and woody notes blended with the scent of ocean air. It is recommended for casual wear. Price: $6.29 for.17 oz	TRIBU by Benetton For Women Launched by the design house of Benetton in 1993 TRIBU by Benetton is classified as a flowery fragrance. This feminine scent posesses a blend of: fruits with floral mid-notes lower notes of sandalwood and amber. It is recommended for casual wear. Price: $5.90 for .16 oz
POLO SPORT BY Ralph Lauren For Men Created by the design house of Ralph Lauren in 1994 Polo Sport is classified as a refreshing spicy lavender ambery fragrance. This masculine scent possesses a blend of fresh warm sporty florals. Price: $9.99 for .4 oz	BURBERRY LONDON by Burberry For Women Launched by the design house of Burberry in 2006 BURBERRY LONDON by Burberry is classified as a fragrance. This feminine scent posesses a blend of: It is recommended for wear. Price: $7.99 for .15 oz	AZZARO SILVER BLACK BY Azzaro For Men This fantastic cologne was created by Loris Azzaro. This amazing scent includes a mixture of bergamot green apple lime coriander juniper caraway wild flowers vetiver patchouli cedar cypress and musk. Price: $6.99 for .13 oz

Well, who didn’t love The Simpsons at one point in their childhood or even well into adulthood? Those that grew up with the cartoon series are with day jobs now  now and will probably want these cute memorabilia as cherished reminders of their childhood.

Made from vinyl, these mini-figures, all three inches tall,  is sold individually for $7.95 a pop. $181.20 for 24 pieces and kept in a special case.

You can check out the mini-Simpson site for more details on these collectible art. This is in coordination with the show’s chief artist, Matt Groening, of course.

Shipping is only limited to these countries: USA, Puerto Rico, Canada, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Russia.

Via Kidrobot