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Suit of the Week: Theory

Suit of the Week

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For busy working women, the suit is often the easiest outfit to throw on in the morning. In general, this feature is not about interview suits for women, which should be as classic and basic as you get — instead, this feature is about the slightly different suit that is fashionable, yet professional. There's nothing amazing or wow about this suit — but it also isn't boring or (that dreaded term that sadly often applies to a lot of women's suits) “frumpy.” Instead, it looks clean and modern, and the styling here is a master class in how to wear a turtleneck with a suit as well as how to do tone-on-tone dressing. Love it. The straight leg pants are $365 and the blazer… doesn't seem to be available at NetaPorter, but looks like Theory's sleek staple blazer, for $535 in other colors at Theory.  (FWIW, I got halfway through writing about a nice blackwatch plaid schoolboy blazer over at J.Crew Factory before I realized that it really, really, really did not match the blackwatch pants they have weirdly paired it with. (There is also a dress!) But I will note that they actually have a ton of cute things in right now, including lots of new patterns that I quite like, including this blackwatch popover blouse, this velvet floral dress, and this leopard sheath dress… and everything is available in sizes 0-22.) This post contains affiliate links and Corporette® may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. For more details see here. Thank you so much for your support!

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Comments

  1. Horse Crazy

    Can anyone recommend a lap tray or table for my laptop? I will be working from home for a month or two after surgery, and I want it to be comfortable and functional. I have a 13 inch Mac Book. Would like to spend $100 or less.

    • TrixieRuby

      I just work on a plain old table–kitchen, dining room, desk–wherever the mood takes me.
      a good desk chair is helpful to make sure the ergonomics of the table and chair make the wrists, arms, and posture work out.

    • Anon

      I have a regular cheap “lapdesk” bought from the river megastore. It is padded on the bottom which makes it comfortable.

    • Anon

      I use a wooden cutting board. It keeps the keyboard as low as possible to reduce strain on my wrists. I like that I can use it as a writing surface in a lot of positions (sitting up, leaned back, laying down with my knees up, etc.)

  2. Anon

    Does Apple ever do sales on laptops, perhaps on Black Friday or Cyber Monday? I’ve squeezed most of the life out of my 2011 laptop…

    • Anon

      I don’t believe Apply itself ever does sales, but I believe some of the resellers will do gift card offers (like buy a laptop and get a $200 gift card to the store). I know Target and Best Buy do such offers for iphones and ipads, so I’m hoping for the same on laptops since I also need to replace my 2012 MacBook.

    • Anon

      I don’t know about Apple, but I’m looking at the Costco circular I got in the mail yesterday and it says a 13″ MacBook Air with 8 GB memory and 128GB SSD is $200 off, for $799.

      • Ellen

        I once got an Apple macbook Air for $50 off when I first moved to NYC opened a checking account in NYC. I wound up loosing that laptop in the subway after I had to carry so many things with me when I went to court. Thereafer, the manageing partner made sure someone else went with me when I go to court to carry my papers and pump’s.

    • givemyregards

      NY Mag had an article about wal-mart’s black friday sales (which have already started?) and they’re discounting the macbook air and other apple products – I doubt you’ll find a discount on the more high end laptops though.

    • Anonymous

      If you live in Massachusetts, Apple products are included in the back-to-school sales tax holiday in August. I bought my laptop one year and an iPad another year, and saved a lot of money on taxes.

  3. anon

    What are you getting your significant others for Christmas? As always, I’m struggling with ideas for DH. He is getting a new pair of boots from me, which are needed but not very exciting. What else? He doesn’t have a lot of hobbies that require stuff, per se. He is into technology but doesn’t splurge on it very often … maybe something in that realm? Like I think he’d like Airpods but he’s also frugal enough that he may feel weird about receiving them even though we can afford it.

    • Anonymous

      DH and I usually do fancier versions of something we would buy anyway or consumables. Think like Patagonia instead of REI store brand. That way we don’t end up with more overall ‘stuff’. This year he’s getting a running jacket and I’m getting a new gym bag. Sounds like airpods might be good in your situation.

      • Abby

        This is what I usually do as well: Patagonia zip up, new wallet from Shinola, Patagonia vest (this was a hit), etc. This year will be new skiing goggles that are reflective.

      • Anonymous

        After reading the vice article below intake back my suggestion to buy air pods – I had no idea they last only 18 months and then can’t be recycled. That’s crazy pants.

    • anon

      A board game, which he asked for specifically, and a stand to hold keys, wallet, sunglasses, phone, and watch–it also has places for cords so he can charge his phone and watch.

          • different anon

            So funny to hear someone else mention this game. We’re big gamers with oodles of games; we have so many that we haven’t even played probably half the games we have. We have “learning Gloomhaven” on our list for the long Thanksgiving weekend. Geek out, girl!

            Anon at 4:46, if you’re looking for starter board games, Azul is a fun one!

    • Anon

      Dumb question, do Airpods work that much better than regular ol’ wire-free bluetooth earbuds? I am an Android person and I have a pair of wire-free earbuds that work great and only cost $40. Airpods seem really expensive; is it that other wireless earbuds won’t work with iPhones? Is that why people get Airpods?

      • Anonymous

        I’ve heard they work better, but I’ve also heard they’re terrible for the environment, so there’s that.

      • Julia

        Honestly, I’ve found they work better than other wireless Bluetooth headphones I’ve used because the connection is seamless and works every time. Other headphones would be 50-50 on whether they’d actually connect automatically, otherwise I’d have go to into my Settings and find the device and manually Bluetooth connect every time — so irritating. Also, Apple earphones are just a really good shape for my ear and stay in place, while other wireless headphones would awkwardly fall out.

        Finally, I didn’t know this at the time of purchase, obviously, but Airpods are super durable/resilient. I dropped one of my Airpods into a simmering pan of taco meat/water (don’t ask), popped that sucker into a container of rice, and it’s completely fine.

    • Anonymous

      We try to put the money towards the house in some way instead of individual presents, so we’ll get like new wallpaper or a new light or something. We like couples’ massages also so I usually get a Groupon or whatever for that.

    • Anon

      Ideas I’ve had, as we tend to get a few less expensive presents rather than one very nice present:
      Coudoroy casual blazer in the 50-90 dollar range – he wears jeans to work and we live in a warm climate so this price is good for a light weight jacket that might get worn 10 times a year.
      Dresser valet to hold his glasses, wallet, charging phone, etc.
      Desk toys for him to fiddle with at work.
      Camera accessories
      Socks and underwear because he never buys them on his own
      Cute staged photos of our dog.

    • Anonymous

      I would NEVER buy myself Airpods – too cheap – but I got a pair as a gift from work and I freaking love them. FYI :)

    • Anonymous

      This is probably a controversial opinion, but if neither of you are the type that really needs/wants gifts, consider agreeing not do them. DH and I quit giving presents for all occasions years ago because we decided we didn’t need more stuff, if we did need something we tend just to buy it when we need it, and we’d rather spend money on vacations. Not having to come up with one more gift idea is kind of a present in and of itself around christmas, honestly (both my parents have late december birthdays, so I always struggle with gift shopping).

        • Never too many shoes...

          Us too! I also love it. As does my husband who finds buying gifts incredibly stressful and anxiety-inducing.

      • Vicky Austin

        I feel you so hard on December birthdays. There are so many in my family and a couple Januaries to boot.

      • Anonymous

        Yep. We celebrate Christmas, but don’t exchange gifts. This year we got a new TV so that’s sort of a gift to ourselves.

      • LaurenB

        My spouse and I both have late December birthdays. We just don’t exchange gifts anymore. What do we need? Nothing really.

      • Anonymous

        I’m so glad other people also don’t give presents, because people sometimes give me horrified looks when I mention we don’t do presents and I was feeling like a weirdo.

    • Anonymous

      My husband is very, very, very into cooking and making cocktails and fancy work clothing. So, I’m getting him some of the America’s test kitchen recommended products (such as their recommended wine corkscrew and kitchen shears), their new-ish book on cocktails, a special ice thing that makes clear ice (apparently clear ice is better? Regardless he’ll have fun with it), and a giftcard to ebay so he can buy some fancy ties (he finds really get deals on Hermes and Zegna ties on there, and since he wears one every day at work, he gets great use out of them).

    • Anonymous

      I got mine a super nice belt for his birthday plus a video game he requested.

      Usually I look for a luxury (I ask him what he wants) and get him that plus an upgrade on a thing he always uses. My husband was kind of meh about the belt but has used it daily for six months because it’s a good belt and the ones he had sucked.

    • Explorette

      We have gone to doing stocking stuffers only the last few years, and I love it. This year he’s getting new cycling socks, a light up collar for our dog, chocolates, mini bottles of booze, and some other fun random stuff I find.

    • Anonymous

      I’d say square toes are back–but maybe only for those who really know what they’re doing! I like these boots. I do think they have the potential to look … not advisedly retro, but unintentionally frumpy. Much depends on the rest of your outfit and your general level of flair.

    • PolyD

      This person who was an adult in the 1990s says, Square toes? You call those square???
      It looks like a slightly flattened regular toed boot to me. I would wear them as I wear any bootie, although they might look a bit better with wider-legged pants vs. skinny ones.

  5. Anonymous

    Does it bother anyone else that the pants have belt loops and she’s not wearing a belt?

    • Anonymous

      This is how I roll. I have truly monster hips and have no worries that my pants will need a belt. I’d rather they be left off completely. But I ignore. I have a couple of belts, but never seem to have the right width and just gave up doing it just to be decorative.

    • Cat

      no, but I don’t like belts and never wear them, so maybe I’m just used to it!

    • LaurenB

      No. I don’t own a single belt. I hate them. I am built straight up and down with no waist, so they are never, ever flattering.

  6. Anonitynon

    I’ve read some of the insightful posts over the past week about the life you don’t live, the choices you didn’t make, etc., and wanted to ask for some advice about my own situation. Really this is more venting than anything, but any helpful suggestions/thoughts appreciated!

    I’m in my early thirties, live alone, no kids. I have a fulfilling, challenging job, and I think I’m doing well there. My salary isn’t as high as I’d like, but that’s the reality of my industry. I have good friends, good family, etc. Earlier this year, I went through a break-up that shook me up — it was amicable and initiated by me, but I have this feeling of “now what” that I haven’t been able to shake since. I feel like my entire life is just stretching out and I have no idea what I want from it. I don’t want kids, so I don’t feel that pressure to meet someone new (in fact, I feel no desire to date again at all…). I have more or less the best job I can get in this industry, unless I move to a new country, which I don’t particularly want.

    Maybe part of the problem is that I don’t have tons of hobbies (I work in a creative field, which means what used to be my number one hobby is now my day job). I love travel but have to be careful about budgeting. Lots of friends have moved away or retreated into their relationships and I find that I go out and do new things less and less.

    I would like to have the kind of rich, fulfilling life so many people here describe, but it’s hard to know what that could look like without marriage, kids, home ownership, and all the other traditional markers of adulthood. I don’t even know where to start. So I guess my question really is: now what? If you had the career part sorted out but had a big blank page for the rest of your life, what would you dream of doing?

    • Anon

      This sounds my life five years ago, right down to the breakup.

      Main recommendation: Read No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol if you haven’t already. It’s the beginnings of an answer to the question you ask in your final paragraph: how to decide what comes next in a woman’s life when it’s not defined by the traditional markers of adulthood.

      What are you passionate about? What do you like to spend your free time doing? What do you want to learn more about? Where can you immerse yourself further? The answers to these questions may help you figure out next steps.

      • Anonitynon

        I have read that book! I loved it, but maybe I’ll reread it now that I’m no longer in a relationship. Those are good questions to ask, too. Thank you!

    • Monday

      I think many people in their 30s-40s deal with this even if they do have “all the traditional markers of adulthood.” There comes a time when your next goal just is not obvious anymore. Either you’ve checked all the boxes already, or you don’t know what your remaining boxes are. (This is part of the midlife crisis cliche.) That said, as another child-free single woman I agree that it can feel especially isolating for us because the question mark is even more obvious.

      I haven’t really solved this for myself either, so I can’t tell you how to fix it. I agree with the advice to find things you’re passionate about or simply just love doing and put more time and effort there. Make new goals if you want to, but also try to find a side of yourself that is less goal-oriented. For me, meditation helps with this even though it’s a struggle to make myself do it!

    • Anon

      Figure out what you want to do and just go do it! Taking the step from dreaming to action is key. Is there a sport you always wanted to try? A friend whose craft projects you’ve always admired? A gym that you’ve driven by and thought “that looks cool” about? Think outside the box. Off the top of my head, I’d love to continue doing or try doing whitewater rafting, backpacking, needlepoint, trampoline gyms, surfing, mountain biking, horseback riding, indoor soccer, an after-work volleyball league, reading more, etc etc.

      • Anon

        For more ideas, what I’d like to do is: learn french well, learn spanish, learn to draw/paint with oils and watercolors, learn to play piano (didn’t learn in childhood, learning now using an app), become a yoga expert and attend ballets and opera more and learn to be a discerning viewer.

    • M

      I’m single, childless, and late 30s. After pretty much all of my friends got pregnant and disappeared into the all-consuming baby years at once (I have one childless friend left and she lives across the country), I found myself getting depressed and staying at home more. So I bought a bunch of season tickets. It turns out it isn’t a big deal to go to the theater/ballet/musical/symphony/lecture on your own. Now I have something almost every weekend during the school year and I’ve experienced a lot of interesting things. Then I signed up for ballet classes (never took dance as a child) and that worked out well. Now I’m signed up for skiing classes that focus on the off piste areas of the resort. It looks like a fun group and I ski every weekend in the winter anyway. Now I won’t be on my own the whole time. I’ll learn new things and meet people.

      I’m a busy trial lawyer and I’ve been able to make time for these events (my next goal is to actually vacation somewhere new on my own). So my advice is to think of something you’re interested in and try it out.

    • Anonymous

      I have been really impressed and a little jealous of my coworker’s life. Mid or late 30s, single. She plays an instrument in a couple of different groups (chamber, pop), has a serious outdoor hobby she engages in within our area and by travel, is on a nonprofit board, has a couple of serious craft hobbies for which she wins awards, runs, hikes, is in several book clubs, and more. Things I have picked up from her are to try to use my hobbies/spare time to connect with others (enter that competition! Join that group!) , which I’m hoping can add more fulfillment to my own married-with-little-kids life even if I’m stuck at home more.

  7. Anonymous

    Does anyone keep totally separate finances from your husband, like the poster earlier today? Who pays for date nights?

    • Anonymous

      We do, and it depends. Most of the time, my husband pays, but that’s generally because his role in the household includes paying for food (which is the majority of our date nights) and because he has a bit more “fun money” in his account. Sometimes I do. If a bill comes and I’m at the table alone bc he’s in the restroom, I’ll just pay it. And if I want to do an activity, I will pay for it.

    • givemyregards

      My husband and I keep everything totally separate except we share a credit card (technically under his name, but I’m an authorized user on it) on which we put all our joint expenses and then at the end of the month we split the bill. This works well for us because literally all our bills can go on the credit card except our rent, which gets automatically withdrawn from each of our checking accounts each month through our building’s system. Date nights generally go on the joint card unless someone wants to “treat” the other and busts out their own card.

    • ANom

      My DH and I keep everything in separate names, but mentally it all belongs to both of us. He generally pays for date night because he likes to, but it’s not always. We are apt dwellers and our biggest expenses are rent, nanny and preschool tuition. He pays rent, we kinda split nanny (he takes cash out of my account), and he pays preschool tuition. I pay for all incidentals (which adds up with two kids). He makes about 3X of what I make. We do separate because it was just easier to keep things as they were when we married (ages 35 and 39), but have a mindset of it being right pocket, left pocket.

    • Anonymous

      We pretty much do. We have cards where I’m an authorized user, but husband pays the bill. I pay the mortgage, he pays utilities. Amazon purchases are on his credit card. We used to actually tally everything up every month and make sure it was roughly equal, but don’t really do that any more. He usually pays for date nights because he’s got the 3% back on restaurants credit card. Our lack of combined finances is really a result of inertia from our pre-marriage state rather than actual conscious planning (I mean, we’re two years out and still haven’t made a photo album from the wedding. At this rate, we’ll get around to combining finances sometime around our tenth anniversary)

      • Senior Attorney

        It turns out it’s a whole thing to get your finances more or less combined. E.g. we once spend half a day on the phone getting our all various insurance policies moved to one insurer. It took us a couple of years to really make it happen.

    • anon

      yes, totally separate…we like it this way and it works for us for 20 years. I am the higher earner and pay for larger expenses….he takes care of smaller ones and fun $$, date night etc.

      • LaurenB

        Everything is jointly ours and has been from the beginning. I manage certain accounts and he manages others, but it’s all the same.

    • Anon

      We have a very odd hybrid system that works for us but may not work for anyone else on the planet.

      We maintain separate checking accounts that are “his” and “mine” (but each of us is named on the other’s account so we can access it in cases of emergency, etc.). We have a joint savings account and another checking account we are co-owners of. Our paychecks are deposited into our “his” and “mine” accounts.

      We used to go through a fairly elaborate calculation of, here’s the percentage of take-home household income you make and here is what I make. Here’s what our bills cost, and here’s what’s left over after bills are paid. Here are our non-bill household expenses. And we would divide up the known-reoccurring expenses (so bills like utility and mortgage, and expenses like groceries) by what percentage of income each person was bringing in, so expenses were proportionate to income. And then each person deposited X amount of money into the household checking account and we paid bills out of that account.

      Then, I went part-time for awhile, then he got laid off, then this happened and that happened, and then and then and then. We haven’t done the expense-splitting-by-proportion-of-income thing for awhile. Now how it works is: he pays the mortgage and the internet bill. I pay all other utilities (gas, electric, water/sewage), plus car insurance for both of us. I also pay for health, dental and vision insurance through my work. I pay for the groceries except for when he picks up milk at the store a couple of times a week. He pays for most of our dining out. Everything else we just kind of negotiate as things go along. I just calculated it the other day and he’s paying more than his proportional share due to the cost of our mortgage, which he said he is fine with and doesn’t see a need to try to do more equitable expense sharing at this point, so we’ll leave things as is for now.

      The big issue at one point was daycare, which we split. We pretty much split all our son’s expenses (clothing, shoes, school supplies, etc.) right down the middle (usually one of us will pay the expense and the other one will transfer money from their account to the other person’s account). Stuff for the house took a lot of negotiation as I feel like we “need” more things and replacement items (like towels, bathroom rugs, etc.) more frequently than he does but generally if it’s over $100 at Bed Bath and Beyond, he’ll split the cost with me. We both plunk our defined savings amount (we try to save a good chunk of our incomes) into either savings or the “household” checking account every pay period and we use that money to pay for house repairs, car repairs, vet bills, summer camp, etc. He pays his car payment (I don’t have one currently; when I did I paid mine). We each pay for our own cell phone bill (his is partially reimbursed by his work, so we can’t combine them). We both have FSAs and will draw down from each other’s accounts as needed to make sure health-related expenses are covered. If it’s not a definable “we” expense, or necessary for the health and prosperity of the household, then we consider it a “me” expense and that gets paid for by whoever incurs the expense. Date night? Theoretically, whoever proposes the date night activity pays. In practice, he usually pays as he feels like it is the gentlemanly thing to do.

      As I type it out, I realize this sounds really overly complicated but it somehow works for us. We never fight about money and I always know where our money is going. Having split finances means we both need to be on top of what’s happening so we are pretty vigilant about budgeting and tracking expenses. We each have a credit card in our own names but we don’t carry balances and he has no problem with me looking at his credit-card bill (and vice-versa). I pull our credit reports every year and we go over them together. We talk about expenses and money a lot but it doesn’t bother me and it doesn’t bother him. I will say that my husband is A. easygoing, B. trustworthy, and C. not afraid to talk about money, which is maybe why this works. Also, in the beginning it took some work to have him prioritize saving money (he grew up in an economically-disadvantaged household where they lived paycheck to paycheck) but we got past that.

      • anon

        We do something similar as well. We have a joint couples account, from which we pay for things we have agreed are shared expenses. And we each have our own accounts, from which we fund our individual expenses (clothes, hobbies, individual meals out, individual travel, health insurance because we pay separately, etc.). And we fund the couples account equally — that was the result of a long set of conversations. We’ve been together for 21 years, married for as long as it’s been legal in our state (we’re both women); she’s 16 years older so we had variations in income that were a result of being at different stages in our careers but had similar positions with similar earning power when in the peak of our careers. We know the bottom line is that our money is jointly shared if necessary, but this system works very well for us. And it simplifies estate planning because I can I can direct some of “my” money to go to causes I especially care about, and vice versa.

    • Robin Sherbatsky

      I mentioned this the other day, but we use splitwise for everything (utilities, date nights, target, etc). We pay for the premium account and set up a “group” for each month so that we can set the default proportionate to our incomes. We set up separate groups for travel (one new group per trip), and will do a separate group for moving expenses since there are a lot of weird one-time payments. We want to have a joint checking account at some point, but didn’t want to do anything dramatic with our finances before we bought our house. Now that that’s done, we’ll do the joint checking account, but I think we’ll still use splitwise for things that end up on one person’s credit card.

  8. Anon 2.0

    Non-attorney here looking for a little bit of simple attorney insight. I need to sell my used car as I got a new one. It is older and not worth very much. How do you recommend I protect myself in this situation? I am thinking along the lines of how to protect myself if I sell it and it breaks down right afterwards, for example. Would finding a simple purchase agreement online suffice? Should it be notarized? I have never done this before and I am a tad nervous about the process.

    • Anon

      Why not donate it to a charity if it’s not worth much, and then you don’t have to worry about it.

    • Anon

      This depends on the state. For example, the Massachusetts lemon law requires that the seller pay for any necessary repairs, or refund the purchase price, if the car does not pass inspection within seven days of sale. Depending on the mileage on the vehicle, there are other requirements for the parts of the car.

      Other states are different and have less onerous regulations.

      I assume you already bought the car – is there a reason you didn’t trade the old one in?

    • Flats Only

      Sell it to CarMax. We’ve gotten rid of a couple of totally used up cars that way, and always got more money than expected. If the car breaks after it’s re-sold, that’s CarMax’s problem, not yours.

      • Senior Attorney

        +1

        You may not get top dollar but the prices are okay and it’s super easy.

      • Anon 2.0

        Thanks for this tip! We have a Carmax lot and this didn’t even cross my mind. Off to make an appointment to find out what they would give me!

    • Anon 2.0

      The dealership was only going to give me peanuts. The car is worth about $1800-2000. I also have a non-attorney salary so I do need* the money from the sale.

      *Need- as in, this is a lot of money to me and I would like to tuck it away in savings.

      For what it’s worth, the state I am in does not require inspections.

    • Al

      Not legal advice but I don’t think this is that complicated – people buy and sell each other things all the time. Just don’t sell to someone that seems sketchy, be very honest with how you describe your car, download a template contract from the internet (as simple as you can find), and make sure you both have original copies (i.e. both sign two copies of the contact and each keep one).

      • Anon

        My ex literally sold his old truck to a blind guy. Granted, it was for his (sighted) nephew, but yeah… not a big deal.

    • anon

      In some states (both OR and WA, the only ones I know about) you should immediately file what’s called a “seller’s report” with the department of licensing. It basically says that you are revoking the title, even if the buyer doesn’t do the transfer properly. This will protect you if there is liability for something like abandoned vehicle fees.

  9. E

    Anyone have any recommendations for a custom made suit in the Chicago area? I’m tall with a 6′ wingspan, deceptively broad shoulders and nothing fits. The Nordstrom sales girl last week as dumbfounded by how nothing fit me and suggested I go custom made but my understanding is that’d start at $2,000. Or if anyone has any suggestions on brands that might fit.. but right now it seems like I’d have to get a blazer in a 14 for example in order for it to fit my shoulders when the rest of me is an 8/10.

    • Chicago anon

      It’s men’s but worth calling and asking them (or if they have a recommendation)- Balani.

    • Anonymous

      You might try German brands, I find they anticipate shoulders. I would also suggest getting used to buying separates, so you can mix sizes. Bloomingdale has Basler and Escada.

    • YasGrl

      If you can spring for a custom suit I’m wondering if you’d be open to visiting NYC? If so, I’ve got the lady for you…

    • Anonymous

      I can make a recommendation in Des Moines if you’re interested in a road trip…

  10. Senior Attorney

    I love the J Crew blazer with the pants that are the same plaid only on a larger scale. Team “They Don’t Match, They Go!”

  11. Anonymous

    Doing a white elephant gift exchange at the office, need an item between $5-$10 (or over just enough that no one will feel weird). Ideas? Avoiding food, coffee, animal products.

  12. Anon

    I live in California and am going to visit an aunt and uncle in the midwest. What is a good edible/consumable gift I can take for them? Budget upto $50.
    The catch: They dont drink alcohol, they are vegetarian and also they don’t like sweets or chocolate.
    In the past I’ve taken them chocolates or such and I have it on good authority they didn’t get consumed. They are pretty healthy eaters, lots of home-cooked ethnic foods which she loves to cook, fruit and veggies and they like nuts. But they are Costco members and I don’t see what I can get that beats the huge Costco mixed nuts that they like from there.

  13. Mary

    Have any of you shopping savants here recently seen mostly white hand towels with a green (like “forest green” or “hunter green”) detail anywhere? Surprisingly hard to come by, and I have tried all the usual suspects and online (The Company Store, Target, TJ Maxx, Bed Bath & Beyond, handful of other stops). Weird reason, but the green detail is important. HELP!

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