Every year around this time the blogs start filling up with 'Gift Giving Guides' and 'How to Throw a Wine Party’ posts. After reading four or five of them I was ready to throw my laptop out the window - the amount of useless and asinine info in many of them is mind numbing and it makes me realize why people shopping around this time of year all look shell-shocked… they’ve been beaten silly by stupid 'what and what not to do' lists. For the love of all that is good and right in the world let’s stop making things...