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12 Father's Day Gifts Beyond Socks and Beer
Father's Day has almost no gift tradition, which is why the shops are full of novelty mugs.
◆ The journal
Notes from the
studio.
What a bespoke game costs, how a commission actually runs, and ideas for the occasions people most often build one for.
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12 Mother's Day Gifts That Are Not Flowers Again
Flowers are not a bad gift. Flowers for the fourteenth consecutive year is not really a gift at all.
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12 Ways to Do New Year at Home Without the Anticlimax
New Year's Eve is five hours of waiting for sixty seconds. Everything else is a plan to fill it.
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11 Secret Santa Gifts Without the Landfill
Secret Santa is a design problem with a tight budget and almost no information. It is solvable.
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11 Valentine's Gifts When Your Partner Plays Games
The gift problem is not that they play games. It is that you are buying for a hobby you cannot assess.
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One Christmas Gift for the Whole Family
Instead of adding to the pile, one gift the whole family actually shares. What works, what gathers dust, and why.