for panicking givers.
Tarot Meets Taylor Swift: Discover the Taylor Arcana
How I made the Taylor Swift tarot deck
Challenging Love Languages: Insights and Criticisms
A lot of good ideas come from utter trash. What I'm saying is: whilst Christian 'keep your marriage together' propaganda doesn't seem like a great place to look for advice on healthy relationships, there can be little insights that, taken out of context, do apply more widely.
Come In From The Cold: A History of My Relationship With Christmas
What changed me from hating Christmas to being a celebrant? Why did I hate Christmas in the first place? How can you act to make the festive season as joyful for those around you as it is for yourself?
The Late-Romantic dot com Gift Guide – A Friend Who’s in a Different Financial Situation To You
We all have friends we navigate tricky waters with - maybe they’re coupled up and their finances are entangled with somebody else’s, maybe they have a better-paid job than you, or are freelance and their income is intermittent, but we all have somebody in our lives for whom buying a wrongly-priced gift will send the... Continue Reading →
The Late-Romantic dot com Gift Guide – The Co-Worker You’re… Friends? With Now
This list also works for the office Secret Santa: it’s for somebody you chat to every day on a superficial level. Maybe you want to know them better, maybe you don’t, but you certainly don’t need to be spending a tonne on them… equally, though, a card might not cut it. Make them a mixtape.... Continue Reading →
The Late-Romantic dot com Gift Guide – The Person You’re Saving for a House With
You clearly love this person a lot, but money is also clearly something you've discussed and you're on track for building a life together, which takes cash. How can you show your partner that you care in both the long and short-term? Etsy jewellery. People like pretty things, and rather than going for mall jewellery... Continue Reading →
The Late-Romantic dot com Gift Guide – Your Friend’s Bilingual Kid
Let's be real, your friend's gift is less important than the one you'll get their kid, and this is definitely the category I find most difficult to shop for. The child doesn’t have to be bilingual - this is a general guide to children of all ages who you may not know very well (my... Continue Reading →
The Late-Romantic dot com Gift Guide – Your In-Laws
More specifically, this guide is for the in-laws who have everything. It isn't specific to in-laws: it can be your own parents or your boss or anybody to whom you do not want to gift anything too personal, anything too intense, or anything too jokey. You want to get them something nice (commensurate with your... Continue Reading →
November is for gift guides.
November is for gift guides. I always want these proposed Christmas lists to come out earlier rather than later to give you time to actually buy them: either to go to the store and get them, or to get them shipped and wrapped in plenty of time; to give you time with the Black Friday... Continue Reading →
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