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Wedding Party Gifts (One Unified Gift for Everyone in the Crew)
You're four months out from the wedding. The dress is sorted. The venue is paid. The seating chart is half-finished. Now you've got to figure out wedding party gifts for fourteen people, and the in...
Read moreYou're shopping for a bridal shower gift. The registry is mostly checked off, or what's left is the salad spinner nobody wanted to spring for. The internet is offering you sixty engraved cutting bo...
Read moreYou've been buying him gifts for years now. Birthday. Anniversary. Christmas. Father's Day. Maybe a few "just because" moments along the way. After a while, the well goes dry. You've done the colog...
Read moreA house closing gift isn't a thank-you. It's referral marketing. A Houston agent named Amanda Little put it well in a real estate trade article a couple of years back. She gives Ring doorbells as c...
Read moreBy the end of his first month in the new place, he'll have five candles, three bottles of wine, two decorative trays, and a monogrammed cutting board he'll use twice and put in the cabinet. This is...
Read moreGifts for Dad Who Wants Nothing
You've asked. He's shrugged. He doesn't want a watch. He doesn't need another tie. The drawer is full of socks. He keeps saying "nothing" and meaning it, which is somehow worse than if he'd just ha...
Read moreEvery summer cocktail guide on the internet has the same twenty drinks. Aperol Spritz. Mojito. Margarita. Moscow Mule. A watermelon something. A frozen something else. By the time you finish scroll...
Read moreWhat Is Soda Water? A Complete Guide to the Cocktail Essential
Soda water goes into a vodka soda, a whiskey highball, a spritz, a mocktail. Most people pour it without a second thought and assume it is plain water with bubbles. It is more than that. Soda water...
Read moreMost Cinco de Mayo cocktail guides tell you to make margaritas. Then they suggest a strawberry margarita, a spicy margarita, a frozen margarita, and a watermelon margarita. By the time you finish r...
Read moreSarti Spritz: The Pink Italian Aperitivo Cocktail
The Sarti spritz is pink, fizzy, and garnished with an orange slice. It's lighter and more floral than an Aperol spritz, less bitter than Cappelletti, and considerably more approachable than Campar...
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