The gift guides are about to start hitting our inboxes.
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The gift guides are about to start hitting our inboxes.
There is a timetable that rolls out without fail; after Thanksgiving comes the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales and once they are done the gift guides start arriving thick and fast. It was once mail catalogues and much browsing; now it’s a brief look and a click if you fancy.

Don’t misunderstand I absolutely love creating gift guides for you here at vickiarcher.com. Truthfully, we put so much time into them it’s probably not the best use of time but I don’t care. I have never been one to work on a practical schedule.

My gift guides from years past have mostly been themed; think colour, subject or simply, “what she wants“.
This year is going to be different.

We are working on gift guides with very strict guidelines.
I have recently become focused on the practical, which means I want things I can actually use.
The purely decorative and useless have become uninteresting to me – I’m not talking feel good experiences, like flowers or candles – but pieces we buy, put to one side and wonder why we even have them in the first place. Now when shopping I am trying to consider if it is something I really need, will it enhance our lives or simply make it cluttered.

This year our gift guides are going to be full of ideas we can ...