Holiday Gift Guide: A Few of My Favorite Things
FreeTime Unlimited

FreeTime Unlimited

I am over-the-moon excited by Amazon’s new Kindle Fire content subscription service for kids 3 to 8. FreeTime Unlimi

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Texting Gloves

Texting Gloves

Also called touch screen gloves, or smart gloves, these lifesavers will let you use your smart phone WITHOUT taking

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Happy Socks

Happy Socks

I discovered Happy Socks at a sock store in Amsterdam, across the street from a cheese store where we bought lunch.

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Dearfoam Clog Slippers

Dearfoam Clog Slippers

Did I already say these are so comfy? And that you can wash them in the washing machine? Oh, be still my heart!!! I

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Packing Cubes

Packing Cubes

I still remember my father-in-law (may he rest in peace) going on and on about what a pro traveler I was, when he saw

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Donors Choose Gift Card

Donors Choose Gift Card

I first learned of Donors Choose in 2007 when Google sent me a Donors Choose gift card as a holiday present. Back in

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Thermapen Instant Read Thermometer

Thermapen Instant Read Thermometer

This is a splurge purchase that I put off for a long time. But I finally realized that home cooking saves money, and

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DeLonghi EC155 Espresso Maker

DeLonghi EC155 Espresso Maker

After returning from Italy this summer, I began dreaming about making cappuccinos and lattes at home. The price at S

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My Walit

My Walit

I love My Walit! These colorful, beautifully crafted leather handbags and wallets are made in Lucca, Italy. Mine wa

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Audible Membership

Audible Membership

I'm not old enough to have memories of gathering around the radio listening to serialized dramas, but I love putting a

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Holiday Gift Guide

FreeTime Unlimited

by on December 7, 2012

Wow! For kids 8 and under, a subscription service with unlimited parent-approved apps, videos and ebooks. WHEEE!

I am over-the-moon excited by Amazon’s new Kindle Fire content subscription service for kids 3 to 8. FreeTime Unlimited offers a nearly unlimited supply of apps, videos and ebooks for a low monthly fee of just $2.99 for Prime members. (You already are a Prime member, right?) The service includes Parental Control over content and the amount of time spent on the device, and can accommodate multiple kids with separate profiles (this requires a family subscription for $6.99 a month.) Content providers include all the big names such as Disney, Nickelodeon, PBS, Sesame Street, and more. This means that your kids can download unlimited apps (as long as it fits the profile you have set up for them) for free during your subscription.

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Texting Gloves

by Barbara Feldman December 6, 2012
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Also called touch screen gloves, or smart gloves, these lifesavers will let you use your smart phone WITHOUT taking your gloves off. Now that’s clever! Texting Gloves

Happy Socks

by Barbara Feldman December 4, 2012
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I discovered Happy Socks at a sock store in Amsterdam, across the street from a cheese store where we bought lunch. As much as I liked the cheese, the socks were even better, as was I suffering from a sock emergency. My daughter and I were on day 4 of a 25-day travel adventure, when [...]

Donors Choose Gift Card

by Barbara Feldman December 12, 2011
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I first learned of Donors Choose in 2007 when Google sent me a Donors Choose gift card as a holiday present. Back in those days, Google sent cool, techie holiday gifts to their best Adsense publishers. If they are still doing it, they have dropped me from their cool kids club. Anyway, in 2007, after [...]

DeLonghi EC155 Espresso Maker

by Barbara Feldman December 12, 2011
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After returning from Italy this summer, I began dreaming about making cappuccinos and lattes at home. The price at Starbucks is really rather ridiculous. And besides, they don’t deliver! So I read all the espresso machine reviews at Amazon, and decided on the DeLonghi EC155 based on a combination of its low-price and good reviews. [...]

The New Kindles

by Barbara Feldman December 12, 2011
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I have two Kindles: a Kindle Fire and an e-ink Kindle Keyboard 3G. If you have not yet fallen under their spell, this holiday season is the perfect time. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of bestselling (and back list) books that are available for purchase at Amazon.com, there are frequently excellent books on [...]

Thermapen Instant Read Thermometer

by Barbara Feldman December 12, 2011
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This is a splurge purchase that I put off for a long time. But I finally realized that home cooking saves money, and not ruining an expensive piece of meat? That’s priceless! Ha ha ha. Anyway, I use this instant read thermometer several times a week when roasting or rotisserie-ing something yummy for dinner. Hubby [...]

Packing Cubes

by Barbara Feldman December 12, 2011
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I still remember my father-in-law (may he rest in peace) going on and on about what a pro traveler I was, when he saw the tiny suitcase I was bringing on my European honeymoon in 1985. The secret to my packing success was small, zippered plastic envelopes that were each big enough for maybe two [...]

Audible Membership

by Barbara Feldman December 12, 2011
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I’m not old enough to have memories of gathering around the radio listening to serialized dramas, but I love putting audiobooks on my phone (used to put them on my iPod) and listen while driving. The odd thing about this is that I don’t drive often, and I don’t usually drive very far. I’m talking [...]

Dearfoam Clog Slippers

by Barbara Feldman December 12, 2011
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Did I already say these are so comfy? And that you can wash them in the washing machine? Oh, be still my heart!!! I have the Chestnut color (but Cayenne Red looks hot!) and everyone think’s they are UGGs. But I didn’t buy them because they look like UGGs. I have UGGs, I love my [...]

My Walit

by Barbara Feldman December 12, 2011
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I love My Walit! These colorful, beautifully crafted leather handbags and wallets are made in Lucca, Italy. Mine was a gift from my step-mom when we were in Italy last summer. I chose this model because of its light weight and many zippers. I do not put a wallet in it, but rather use the [...]

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