Christmas can quickly devolve into a list of mindless obligations. You make the peanutbutter balls that you always make. You put up your tree, post it to Instagram with #betterlatethannever even though it’s not late at all and what is “late” anyway? You go to all the parties that you always go to. And soon enough, you’re buying all of these presents for the same people you always buy presents for. You stress yourself out and can’t wait for it all to be over with. It’s just a mindless deluge of crap that you don’t really care about.
Who wants that? It absolutely doesn’t need to be that way. These are made up rules that you’re definitely allowed to question and toss out the windows if you so decide.
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Window Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide: Easy to Mail Items, Guest Post by Staci Jackson
Friends! I mentioned to my friend Staci that I was writing a weekly Holiday Gift Guide and she generously offered to help! And because I have, on one or two occasions, been on the receiving end of her incredible gift of gifting–I would have been a fool to decline. So here we have, just in time to employ the USPS for our gift delivery needs, a list of Easy To Mail Items from My Friend Staci!
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Holiday Gift Guides: For the Readers in Your World
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Through the month of December, I’ll be posting a weekly gift guide! This week, we’re talking books.
My husband and I managed to actually get Christmas gifts for every single one of our nieces and nephews (of which there are 13 and one on the way). I don’t know if we’ll always be able to pull this off (the number is just growing and growing, you guys!) but we managed it this year. And since there are so many of them and because the love and passion for reading is deep in our veins—obviously we got books for each and every kid. Picking out books for these kids… was SO MUCH FUN!
And so it got me thinking about all the books that I would buy for everyone else in my life if I had unlimited funding. Drawing inspiration from real people in my life, I came up with some ideas! So, hey, maybe there’s someone on your list that matches someone on this list?
And if they don’t, have I raved about the Book of The Month Club yet? Your recipient will always get to choose whatever book they happen to be in the mood for and they’ll get to think of you every month! Check it out.
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Ask a Former Optician: What you really want to know about buying glasses.
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Some of you know that up until several months ago, I worked for an eye doctor. I really did love this job and I learned so, so much. In addition to selecting which frames we would carry in the store and going on the yearly trip to Kansas City for ongoing education opportunities (easily my two favorite parts of the job), I learned a lot about the inner workings of an optometrist’s office.
August is National Eye Exam Month. So, I’m here, today, to answer a few of the Frequently Asked Questions that often still find their way into my inbox even though I’m no longer under the employ of an optometrist.
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What Are You Wearing? #OOTD
I got dressed that morning in my favorite outfit for that week. Do you do that thing where you have a very favorite thing that you wear every day for a week and then once it’s in the wash, you forget that it ever existed? This was my favorite outfit last week.
XOXO, Lib 