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life improvers

"Use the good silver" is fine. But this is better.

Habits can be a prison, but habits can also be a gift. It depends how you use them.

gifts

A bathrobe-free Mother's Day gift guide.

Also notably absent from these pages: slippers.

sale

Everything's on sale at the same time and I can't deal.

It's a sale emergency and I just had to tell someone.

home

Let's set the goddamn table.

Making a nice table and not getting in our heads about the stigma of domesticity.

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The stuff that improved my life for under $50 this year:

Five things that I would've happily paid double for.

dining

Gifts for "kitchen people."

(A category that may, as it turns out, include some men.)

beauty

The best gift is a gift that disappears.

(Hear me out.)