Gift-giving

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Crowdsourcing Christmas: Cheap Gift Edition

Tight budgets are no fun around Christmas time (or ever), but with some creativity you can find your way around them and give your friends and family something better than the cheapest thing you could find at Walgreens. My budget for Christmas gifts this year pretty much tops out at twenty bucks– and since that includes shipping to environs as far north as Wisconsin and Glasgow, we’re probably talking closer to ten bucks on materials. I love the idea of sending my friends and family an assortment of handmade treats, but the most complicated thing I can make are boxed brownies. With that in mind, I am turning to you culinary geniuses here at Crasstalk and asking you to post your quickest, easiest dessert recipe. I’ll get things started with my mint chocolate peppermint bark.

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10 “Unique” Gifts For Your Soccer (Football) Fan

Do you have a soccer fan who already has every jersey, scarf and Official Team Wine of his or her favorite club? Are you racking your brain trying to figure out what to get him or her, be it a birthday or holiday? Here’s a list of more, er, unique gift items for your favorite ultra:

(1) Auto valve cap: For the extremely detail-oriented car owning fan (offered by Borussia Dortmund). Continue reading