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Wednesday
Feb272013

[GIFTED] Ceramic Pig Planter

There are two types of people: the people who are responsible enough to care for plants, and the people who are not.

Your girlfriend falls into the first category.  She is the type who will run through the house with crazy eyes, yelling at you while you're playing Tetris on your iPad, saying, "We need to clean the bathroom, mop the floors, and dust the baseboards!!!!!!" 

Your attitude is more along the lines of, "Well, we don't need to do anything." 

Her version of being an adult is being responsible, and your version of being an adult is not having to answer to anyone.  YOUR MOM ISN'T HERE.  YOU DON'T HAVE TO MOP THE FLOOR TONIGHT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO. 

This may seem lazy, but it's smart to isolate tasks and responsibilities to the shit that really matters in order to preserve your energy and balance out your stress levels.  For example: Feed the cat?  Yeah, that needs to happen every day.  Water the plant?  Eh, who cares.  

What have we learned here?  You'd be terrible at taking care of plants (or nurturing any kind of life, really), but your girlfriend's control freak tendencies and inability to relax would make her the BEST at it.  Buy her this Ceramic Pig Planter ($29.99, Fruit Fly Pie) and watch her happily add yet another task to her already long to-do list. 

Thursday
Feb212013

[GIFTED] PlugBug

Between you and your boyfriend, you have about 17 Mac products in your house at any given time. Your apartment would be a burglar's treasure trove, filled with the most popular, most expensive electronics on the market.  

Regardless of that, though, the even bigger problem is that you have all of these battery-sucking devices that demand to be charged every few hours or so.  Also, there is only one outlet near your couch and your boyfriend wants to plug in his MacBook and you want to plug in your iPad, so you can both ignore each other while you're pretending to watch a movie but really stalking people you hate on Facebook.  

What is the solution here?  PlugBug ($34.99, Twelve South), obviously.  PlugBug acts as a two-in-one charger, juicing up your iPad and iPhone at the same time while only taking up one outlet.  Your lazy Sunday couch conundrum is solved.  Also, this would be useful when you're traveling, so your fellow passengers don't kill you for taking up all of the limited outlets that are available at that one corner near the gate.  

Wednesday
Feb202013

[GIFTED] State Heart Mugs

HOME IS WHERE YOUR HEART IS, sentimental jerks always say.  That syrupy phrase means that even though you might be in one place, your heart can be somewhere else.  

These State Heart Mugs ($35 for set, Grey Skies Blue) echo that sentiment, and are perfect for anyone who is moving away from a place they love, someone who's in a long-distance relationship, or someone who was convicted of a crime and being sent to prison in another state.  Cheers.  

Tuesday
Feb192013

[GIFTED] Polaroid Locket Necklace

The Polaroid might be dead and gone, but it's one of those iconic things that sticks around in the hearts of dramatic girls who wear thick glasses and have unintelligible tattoos all over their arms.  

This Polaroid Locket Necklace ($35, iluxo Jewelry & Design) is perfect for those girls, who love taking photos of themselves looking forlorn in the bathroom mirror.  As an added bonus, the necklace works as an actual locket, so she can store a lock of hair of a former lover or a leaf she found on the ground on the saddest day of her life.   

Monday
Feb182013

[SPONSORED] Knife Dock

You live in a tiny apartment, with an even tinier kitchen.  Apartment kitchens tend to be comically small, because you are supposed to be "out on the town" drinking Cosmos with your girlfriends and having the time of your life.  You didn't move to the big city to stay in, right?  WRONG.  First of all, the average Cosmo costs $14, and second of all, you like spending time in the kitchen.  Cooking soothes you.

What DOESN'T soothe you, though, is the fact that your tiny kitchen has ZERO storage space.  Everything is in disarray. The last time you checked, your colander was in the bathroom. 

RELAX: the Knife Dock ($29.99, Knife Dock) will help you out with your storage problems.  It will fit easily into any standard kitchen drawer, and its flexible cork dividers will make room for every knife you have—from the cheap $7 knife you bought at Target to the expensive Wusthof Knife you got from your parents at Christmas.  

Bonus? The Knife Dock comes in a larger size (at $48.99) for you kitchen organization aficionados with extra space to spare.