Wedding costs are rising. Should the value of your gift go up also?
As wedding season ramps up across Canada, many guests are grappling with a familiar question at a time when seemingly everything costs more: how much should they spend on a wedding gift?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/wedding-season-gifts-9.7221048?cmp=rss
The Relationship Expectations Nobody Talks About Until It's Too Late - Zsolt Zsemba

From texting habits to gift giving, public affection to social media behavior, here's everything couples never talk about until it causes real damage.

Zsolt Zsemba

"Happy birthday!"

"Wow!"

"I gotta gift for you!"

"You shouldn't have. It's a big box. I said get me something little, like a little toy or something."

"Open it."

"Okay. [...] Wait... you got me a toilet?"

"Yes. A wavelet is a little wave, so a toilet is a little toy."

"If you have to explain your gift..."

#toilet #toy #little #GiftGiving

Valentine's Day spending hits record $29.1 billion as pet gifts surge: Americans plan to spend a record $199.78 per person on Valentine's gifts in 2026, with pet spending reaching $2.1 billion as consumers expand celebrations. https://ppc.land/valentines-day-spending-hits-record-29-1-billion-as-pet-gifts-surge/ #ValentinesDay #Love #GiftGiving #PetGifts #ConsumerSpending
Valentine's Day spending hits record $29.1 billion as pet gifts surge

Americans plan to spend a record $199.78 per person on Valentine's gifts in 2026, with pet spending reaching $2.1 billion as consumers expand celebrations.

PPC Land
Is there really no #opensource digital frame software that is actively maintained? Everything I found is abandonware. #digitalframe #photography #giftgiving #gifts #christmas #diy

Một nhà phát triển đang xây dựng ứng dụng mới về danh sách quà tặng và quà nhóm! Ứng dụng này giúp bạn tránh nhức nhối khi tặng quà: không biết mua gì, trùng quà, hoặc gom tiền lúng túng. Bạn có thể tạo danh sách riêng tư/chia sẻ, tổ chức quà nhóm dễ dàng và giữ bất ngờ cho người nhận. Rất tiện lợi cho sinh nhật, lễ tết, hay tiệc mừng!

#App #Wishlist #GroupGifts #GiftGiving #Tech #Startup #ỨngDụng #DanhSáchQuà #QuàTặng #QuàNhóm #CôngNghệ

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1ptqwe9/bu

Buckeye Wishlist: What Ohio State students are asking for on their holiday gift lists

With the holidays approaching, Ohio State students arehave forminged their anticipated holiday wishlists. With anything from perfume to suitcases, here is a guide to students’ top picks for the holidays, which gives insight into trends seen across campus.  Travel essentials  Luggage is an essential part of any traveling, and with nearly 20 percent of Buckeyes […]

The Lantern

There's a lot of talk of polyam romance stories on my TL right now, so I want to point out I've narrated a *fantastic* polyamorous comedy romance:

The Trouble with Angels, by Maggie Adams.

This was my debut romance audiobook narrating as Eden Cavell.

It's about a woman divorcing an awful husband who's trying to start a new life from scratch. On the worst day of her life, she is taken in by two hot Daddy Doms who are best friends and run a sex club together. And she promptly falls in love with them both!

It's hands down one of the best-written books I've ever had the pleasure to narrate. It has a big heart. It's genuinely funny. It has a plot! The romantic tension between the leads is fabulous. And the sex scenes absolutely sizzle.

If you're looking for a polyamory-themed gift for someone special in your life, this is a wonderful book!

It's also a book that listeners constantly tell me that they love even though they don't think of themselves as romance fans.

If you've ever wanted to check out one of my audiobooks and didn't know where to start, The Trouble with Angels is a great choice!

It's available as an ebook and paperback, too, if that's more your thing than audiobooks.

https://geni.us/TTWA

@audiofiction @bookstodon

#Polyamory #PolyamRomance #Bookstodon #Books #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Audiofiction #Audiodrama #Romance #BDSM #BDSMRomance #SecondChanceRomance #GiftGiving #Gifts #HolidayGifts

We really should start asking the critical question. Not if AI can do something, but why we shouldn't let AI do something. Gift giving is about thinking of the other person, not about simply buying random stuff. Thus, outsourcing it to AI means failing.
#giftgiving #AI
https://qz.com/ai-christmas-shopping-gift-guide
I asked ChatGPT to play Santa this year. Its gift for my mom was deadly

I tried using AI to shop for Christmas gifts, and it kept mistaking intimacy for inventory — right up to the “smart” jump rope it wanted my mom to survive

Quartz