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

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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

Socially mandated love

“Hi!”

“AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa… You scared me. I did not see you there, crouching behind the couch.”

“Oh, sorry! I just wanted to surprise you on this day of celebration.”

“You’ve surprised me, so mission accomplished!”

“But that’s not all. My coworkers managed to shame me into performing socially mandated gestures to demonstrate my love for you.”

“Okay.”

“Like giving you this set of dead plants.”

“Oh, flowers. You took upon yourself to go to the florist. How thoughtful!”

“Yes. Though, I think florist is a bad name. They should be called flower undertakers.”

“The socially mandated response is to thank you. So thank you!”

“You’re welcome. Here is a card for you. Open it.”

“Give me a second.”

“None of the cards at the store conveyed the exact message I had in mind. So I edited the message.”

“I see that. How thoughtful! Crossing out the word ‘forever’ is quite sensible.”

“Yes. At best, once I’m dead, I won’t be able to love you. Why make promises I cannot possibly keep?”

“I also like how you scribbled in the words ‘froggy-style’.”

“What? Froggy-style? Er… no… it is ‘doggy-style’.”

“Oh… right. Your handwriting is terrible.”

“Yes. It is. I also have this gift for you.”

“Wow! That’s a big box.”

“Open it.”

“Give me a week! Haha!”

[Five minutes later.]

“Did you find it?”

“I think I did. It is a wad of $20 bills, like I’m a pole dancer or some such.”

“This way you can get whatever you want. However, my coworkers chided me, saying money is not a thoughtful gift.”

“This is surely more thoughtful than the coffee machine my parents gave me.”

“Oh… yeah…. with your difficulty processing caffeine.”

“It gives me hives. Not only that, but they keep forgetting that they gave me a coffee machine already, and they give me that gift every year.”

“At least money never becomes useless, even if you get it repeatedly.”

“I’m sorry, but I have nothing for you. I do love you too, but I am aromantic.”

“Oh, the enjoyment of your presence is quite enough gift for me. Come to think of it… I think I might be aromantic too. The whole thing felt rather unnatural to me.”

#TheDailyIsotope #AutisticWriters #ActuallyAutistic #aromantic #GiftGiving #society

#ActuallyAutistic #aromantic #AutisticWriters #GiftGiving #society #TheDailyIsotope

One thing happens practically every holiday season, and it involves the same presents going into people’s carts. Sure, they look fun or thoughtful in the moment. But then January shows up, and the regrets come. #christmas #gifting #giftgiving

https://nadia-onpoint.com/christmas-gifts-people-regret-buying-every-single-year/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Everything Christmas @everything-christmas-NadiaOnPoint

Christmas Gifts People Regret Buying Every Single Year

January shows up, and the regrets come. Here are some Christmas gifts that many people later wish they’d never bought, and the reasons why.

OnPoint Gift Ideas

Big shop update! Multiple new zines! Check out all my latest zine work at www.ovaettr.gay/shop

Come see us at the HOLIDAY MARKET at the Denton Maker Center (728 N. Elm St. Denton TX) on THIS Sunday 11/23 2PM - 5PM RAIN OR SHINE! We'll be dry under a tent, come snag some wonderful gifts for your family and friends by local artisans!

#art #DentonTX #zines #zinester #MakingZines #HolidayMarket #Dentoning #GiftGiving #analog #DIY #AlternativeGifts