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Gift Guide: For the Moms

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Mom Gift Ideas | Corporette 2017 Update: We still think these are some fun gift ideas for moms, but you may also want to check out our latest gift ideas for professionals. I usually do single product gift recommendations during the few weeks before Christmas, but I thought I'd be ambitious this year and do a few recommendations for a variety of categories. We're starting Pinterest boards for each category and we'll be adding to them throughout the season, so please check 'em out. The first category for the blog, though: For the Moms. Whether it's your mom, your mother in law, or that special mom-like relationship you have with someone at work, these gifts can be next to impossible to buy. (Check out our guest poster's excellent guide to buying jewelry for women in your life from last year — lots of great tips.) See info for the pieces below the jump… and keep checking our Pinterest board for more mom gift ideas.
  1. Bowls, bowls, all types of bowls. These lovely nesting bowls are $160, but with today's extra 20% off sale, they come down to $128. Four Cantara Nesting Bowls
  2. Sephora has a number of gift sets — I like this “Superstars” set for a mom. $225 value for a $75 price. Nice!
  3. I love the sparkles on this card case from DVF — it would be great for all the extra store cards your mom may want to carry with her while doing holiday shopping. The case is $38 at DVF; today only you can get free ground shipping. Glitterati Tuxedo Card Case
  4. It's hard to go wrong with a lux wool and cashmere scarf, and I like the 12 different colors this one comes in. It's $98 at Nordstrom. Nordstrom Wool & Cashmere Scarf
  5. What a great bit of bling for the office. I kind of want this for myself. (OK, I'll be honest, I kind of want all of these for myself.) This quartz paperweight is $49.95 at Anthropologie. Crystalline Paperweight
  6. This is a really little gift, but sometimes those are appreciated — an iPhone stylus. If your mom has been struggling to type and so forth on her iPhone (or you just know anyone who generally misses their Blackberry keyboard), get them a stylus — my mom swears by hers. This one has something like 3,000 positive reviews from Amazon, and retails for $4.95.
Ladies, what are you getting for your moms for the holidays? What other gifts do you struggle with?  Gift Ideas for Moms, MILs, and Mom-Like Mentors | Corporette

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  1. I’m really excited for my mom’s present this year. She wanted a new casserole dish. I was in a random little store and found one that is the exact color and print as my bridesmaids dresses were. (Periwinkle blue with white polka dots.) I think she will love the special memory every time she uses the dish.

    Also, I got a random catalog that had slow cooker carriers for $7. They are like insulated lunch boxes for when you are bringing your crock pot somewhere. My husband and father in law both take part in a lot of chili cook offs so they are each getting one along with my mom (since she is always going to some pot luck).

    2. I’m a mom of adults and I got that exact stylus last year from one of my sons (admittedly, I had asked for one). I use it on my iPad, not my iPhone, and I love it – it keeps my fingertip from getting sore.

  3. Job posting for a federal job does not specify a length, only to submit a writing sample. I have a brief that I want to submit. It is about 25 pages long. Should I excerpt, and if so, what should I submit — facts, argument, a little of both?

    1. If the brief you want to submit is something that you really believe showcases your writing skills, I say submit the whole thing. It would be hard to truncate it.

    2. Excerpt it. In my experience, the general rule for a writing sample is 8-12 pages.

    3. Excerpt. Majorly. 10 pages will give them plenty to judge from, just pick one full IRAC or CREAC or whatever you want to call it, omit the facts and other pieces, and include a brief cover sheet that matches your resume heading, stating what the assignment was for, that you have the right to use it, and that you’ve excerpted, giving the pertinent facts there.

  4. Speaking of gifts, I am looking for an elbow length pair of cashmere gloves to gift to someone. Portolano makes a pair, but I can only find them in super bright red and I think my recipient would prefer black or another more sedate color. Brand does not matter, and it would be awesome if they had a tech finger feature. If anyone has seen a pair, please let me know.

    These are the Portolano ones, for reference. At $40 they’d make a nice gift for someone, too!
    http://www.lastcall.com/Portolano-Cashmere-Basic-Long-Knit-Gloves-Fire-Red/prod27970024/p.prod?ecid=LCCIGoogleProductAds&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=sku26450025

  5. This year, as always, I asked my mother what she wants, was told “I dunno I don’t need anything” so a food hamper it is since I can order that online and not have to worry about posting it in time for Christmas.

  6. The gift I’m having the hardest time figuring out is my sister’s. Her kids are grown, she works as a teacher, lives in a different state and seems to have all the climate-related gear she needs.

    2. What about a subscription service to something interesting – Birchbox, something food-related through Zingerman’s, coffee, wine…?

  7. I’m getting her a pearl necklace, I was in Hawaii earlier this year and bought loose pearls that I then (very painstakingly) knotted into a necklace, so hopefully it will have some meaning to her too… I also got her a nice box of chocolates she loves

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