Unique Valentine’s Day gifts and specials from Offbeat Bride!
Over on our sister site Offbeat Bride, a bunch of our sponsors got together to offer up special goodies and special deals for your someone special this Valentine’s Day. Head over to Offbeat Bride to see what fun Valentine’s Day gifts you can wrangle up for yourself or your sweetie!
Gift your buddies cute-yet-easy embroidered gifts
Want to give your friends and family something unique and hand-made, but don’t really have the skillz to pay the crafting billz? What about finding cute but totally easy embroidery patterns? That brown bird pattern looks as adorable as it is simple. I would hang the shit out of that on my wall.
Melting cats & rainbow unicorns: uncommon gifts from UncommonGoods!
Wanna know a little secret about my gift-shopping prowess? I generally head to UncommonGoods the moment I start my “awesome gifts on the internet” search. This year, just in time to get your holiday shop on, UncommonGoods has joined forces with me as one of our sponsors! So I get to gush about some of the unique gifts that cut just about melt your face with all the awesome…
How do deal with gift-giving as your families and finances change?
Now that our brothers are over 21, do we still get them presents? And how do we tell them we don’t want them to use their limited funds to get us anything? And can we not get them presents while still buying my younger siblings presents? And what about when our siblings have kids too? We can’t afford to buy 10 kids quality presents as well as all of our other people! Plus, I don’t want our kid coming home with a truckload of gifts. How have other Homies dealt with family gift giving as their families and finances have changed?
5 tips for creating a “judge-free” gift registry, by Thankful Registry
Raise your hand if you’ve ever indulged in being judgey over other people’s gift registries — It’s kind of like the equivalent of snooping inside someone’s bathroom medicine cabinet, right? That must be why conversations about gift etiquette can get so hairy. Our sponsor, Thankful Registry, are sharing five tips on how to create a wedding or baby registry that’s useful for you and should also be well-received by family and friends.
From geeky to gangsta rap: Jordandene has the coolest kids clothes you’ll see today
Remember when I first introduced you to Offbeat Home sponsor Jordandene? I gave you geek chic shirts for big kids, and you explored the site and found the geek chic items for little kids. Let’s talk about Jordandene‘s awesome kids clothes and accessories (including the BEST FREAKING GIFT FOR KIDS of all time). Plus there’s a special discount for any Jordandene stuff you like.
Throw this Seinfeld-inspired, shame-free Regifting Party
We’ve talked about what to do with gifts you don’t want on Offbeat Home & Life before. One of the suggestions is to regift — that wonderfully taboo idea many of us are familiar with thanks to Seinfeld. Thanks to my extended family’s incredible generosity but general cluelessness about what I want or need for Christmas, every year I find myself with a bunch of gifts that are very nice, but not quite what I want. After some conversations with friends in the same boat, I decided that regifting shouldn’t be a dirty word. It should be an excuse for a party!
14 gifts for dapper, artistic types that will make even the hipster-iest hipster excited
I got this request via Twitter: “Any plans to do a gift guide for the dapper artsy-type people in our lives? I’m totally stumped for my brother-in-law and could use some ideas.” My response: “I suspect he may be suffering from hipsterism. But it’s okay! I can help.” Forget skinny jeans and slouchy beanies, these gifts will make even the pickiest hipster say, “okay, yeah, that’s totally me”…