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Shop Blisstree: 5 Eco-Friendly Black Friday Buys to Snag for the Holidays
Still stuffed from Thanksgiving dinner? Well, before you begin your blissful Black Friday lying around the house and grazing on leftovers, we found five presents that would be perfect to give away or to keep for yourself. Plus, they’re all natural or organic, so you won’t inadvertently poison yourself or your loved ones this holiday season. Leave that to Uncle Benny and his cigar smoke.
And, now through Monday, November 29, enter the coupon code FREESHIP50 on any order over $50 and you’ll get free shipping on these products from Blisstree. … More »
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Shop Blisstree: 5 Eco-Friendly Black Friday Buys to Snag for the Holidays
Happy Thanksgiving (and Holiday Programming Note)
Happy Thanksgiving, Dear Readers.
We hope you enjoy the holiday weekend with family, friends, and good food. (Just try not to check your work BlackBerry too much. However, you may log on to Blisstree as often as you like.)
Speaking of Blisstree, we’ll be carving our own turkey, sampling some stuffing, watching a few classic movies, playing a little touch-football (and not be attending any Black Friday store sales), so we’ll have a reduced posting schedule over this long weekend. … More »
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Long solitary walks, turkey trot races, iPods, iPads, pretending to have swine flu, baking for hours, saying you have to go upstairs to do some “work,” generous amounts of alcohol, pretending to watch football, anti-anxiety meds: All are perfectly valid ways to get through Thanksgiving weekend when you have a house full of challenging relatives and guests who overstay their welcome. (Or perhaps you’re being held hostage at Aunt Polly’s house for the weekend.) Either way, you can combine one or two of these excuses (I highly recommend alcohol) with my gallery of ten classic movies I watch over Thanksgiving to escape all the family melodrama — albeit temporarily.
Blisstree Editor-in-Chief Christine Egan on ten classic Hollywood flicks you really should check out this holiday weekend (even if you end up having to watch them with relatives), from her post: Gallery: 10 Classic Movies I Watch Over Thanksgiving to (Temporarily) Escape Family Melodrama
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Now, all of a sudden, it’s late November again, and despite my desire for a new pair of boots and a coffee table for my living room, I’m struck by the urge to scrounge up a charitable donation that’s become so well-timed to the holiday season. Am I a bad person for having such inconsistent motivation to help others? Am I the only one who’s so lazy during the other ten months of the year? I’d like to think that everyone else is a better Good Samaritan than I am, but something tells me I’m not unique in my start/stop pattern of giving/non-giving.
– Blisstree Deputy Editor Briana Rognlin on the emotional complexities of wanting to give to the less fortunate around Thanksgiving and Christmas, from her post: Charitable Giving: Are We Holiday Do-Gooders Just Selfishly Easing Our Guilty Consciences?
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But if you’re unluckly enough to have an annoying relative who plops down next to you on the couch to watch one of these films and constantly asks: “Who is that?”, “Wait…did he just kill someone?”, “I don’t get it…are they a couple?”, or “Is that Julie Andrews or Shirley Jones?”, I’m afraid you’re on your own. Which is why I highly recommend alcohol. (And headphones.)
– Blisstree Editor-in-Chief Christine Egan on surviving the holidays with a little help from Hollywood, from her post: Gallery: 10 Classic Movies I Watch Over Thanksgiving to (Temporarily) Escape Family Melodrama
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Oprah’s Better Than Santa, So Here’s What We’d Ask For If We Sat on Her Lap
Part one of OprahPalooza 2010 Oprah’s Ultimate Favorite Things aired this afternoon, and although we’ve been periodically checking under our seats for gift certificates and cashmere, alas: We weren’t invited to the big sha-bang. Guests who have given back to their communities were specially chosen, but rumor has it that they howled and cheered just like anyone else would when Oprah gave away a 52-inch flat-screen TV and a watch worth more than $2K. It’s Oprah’s last season, and she only has one thing left to prove: She’s better than Santa Claus. … More »
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Oprah’s Better Than Santa, So Here’s What We’d Ask For If We Sat on Her Lap
Oprah’s Better Than Santa, So Here’s What We’d Ask For If We Sat on Her Lap
Part one of OprahPalooza 2010 Oprah’s Ultimate Favorite Things aired this afternoon, and although we’ve been periodically checking under our seats for gift certificates and cashmere, alas: We weren’t invited to the big sha-bang. Guests who have given back to their communities were specially chosen, but rumor has it that they howled and cheered just like anyone else would when Oprah gave away a 52-inch flat-screen TV and a watch worth more than $2K. It’s Oprah’s last season, and she only has one thing left to prove: She’s better than Santa Claus. … More »
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Oprah’s Better Than Santa, So Here’s What We’d Ask For If We Sat on Her Lap
Green Turkey Gallery: 10 Ways to Make Thanksgiving More Eco-Friendly
Thanksgiving, traditionally a holiday for being grateful for intangible blessings, is actually a day of mass consumption on every level. We eat a lot; we drink a lot; and the next day, we shop a lot. These behaviors easily can have a negative effect on the planet, thanks to the waste, carbon emissions, and energy use our traditions yield. This makes us feel guilty. (We also sleep a lot over Thanksgiving; this does not make us feel guilty.) So this year, we’re going to turn down the gobble-gobble and make our Thanksgiving as eco-friendly as possible. In that holiday spirit, we’ve got ten easy ways you can reduce your carbon emissions and waste this turkey day. … More »
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Green Turkey Gallery: 10 Ways to Make Thanksgiving More Eco-Friendly
My Wife and I Always Spend the Holidays Apart (And We Like It That Way)
Last Christmas Eve, my wife Kim and I performed our annual holiday ritual.
No stockings were hung, no champagne was toasted, no duet of “There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays was sung,” no gifts were exchanged. Just a couple of simple ‘I love yous” before drifting off to sleep.
270 miles apart.
For ten years running, we’ve spent the holidays apart. And it’s not just Christmas. We usually go our separate ways for Thanksgiving, too.
Kim heads north to join her family in suburban Boston; I go south to sit on my Mom’s couch in her urban Philadelphia neighborhood.
Why, you ask?
Isn’t it obvious?
We adhere to a foolproof system for reducing the holiday-related torture known as in-laws. … More »
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My Wife and I Always Spend the Holidays Apart (And We Like It That Way)
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