Holiday season gift guides are running rampant. They’re everywhere, and they’re necessary. Unlike the last 5+ years of holiday seasons, I’m in a cheerful mood this year which is a relief to myself (& those around me I’m sure).
I’m the person that looks at every single gift guide because one list doesn’t cover everyone. Each person has their own twist on gift guides & everyone on my shopping list has their own unique taste – I require all the options.
This is my ultimate gift list for the HIM’s & HER’s in your life! I based this list off gifts that either Wafiq or I received & we considered to be pretty good. I tried to do a wide price range so you can find something in whatever budget you’re looking for. Keep in mind, if you’re ordering gifts online, order soon! You want to receive the packages with plenty of time for wrapping & delivering!
Let the holiday shopping commence! For the real go-getters you’re already done with all your holiday shopping because you knocked it out during the black Friday sales. Well done. For the rest of us, we’ll be squeezing in time after work up until Christmas Eve.
You know the one part that sucks about holiday time that doesn’t exist around Thanksgiving… The torture of trying to find gifts, for everyone. And make cookies, and hang decorations, and go to holiday parties, and try to eat healthy. Adding gifts on top of all that jazz is what can easily make you freak the F out. I have a few ideas….
5 Ways To Finish Out The Holiday Season Stress Free
The Gift Of Being Stress-Free: Ok, think about the people you’re buying gifts for. Thinking of them? If most of those people knew you were stressed out, driving around like a maniac, spending more money than you had, buying their gift from the checkout line in Target because you can’t think of anything else – they wouldn’t want that from you! So don’t feel like you have to do it. Wait until the next day, by them a good book, or gift card, and let the pressure of other gifts go.
Essential Oils: This may or may not be a placebo, the essential oil trend, but I don’t give a fuck. If it works because my mind is telling me to believe it’s working, or the oils are truly relaxing me – I’ll fucking take it. Am I right? I met an essential oil doctor (jk she was selling her oil potions at the grocery store & I stopped to talk to her), and she gave me a combo she said would help me relax. (5 drops Lavender, 5 drops Jasmine, 5 drops Frankincense, 3 drops Ylang Ylang.) She put it in a tiny spray bottle (here) and said to spray it on my pillow at night, on my clothes, mid anxiety attack – whatever. I’ve become obsessed. It’s so easy to do too! Go to Whole Foods, get these essential oils, get a tiny spray bottle, and make your own secret Xanax potion.
If you’re not already making this recipe- hurry up & get it going! I posted this recipe on my Instagram last year but thought it was worth a post. It is. So. Delicious. And super easy!
CHRISTMAS CRACK RECIPE
Ingredients:
Popcorn
Pretzels
White Chocolate
Dark Chocolate
Coconut Oil
(the amounts you use for each ingredient is up to you! Extra popcorn? lots of chocolate? go for it! )
HO HO HO! I’ve been wanting to write about listening for SO. LONG. But I wasn’t sure how to get across what I wanted to say. Then…
Did you know? Christmas isn’t a national holiday in Japan—only one percent of the Japanese population is estimated to be Christian—yet a bucket of “Christmas Chicken” (the next best…
My whole life I’ve been eating these tasty turkeys with no idea the raunchiness behind the cooking! My God, this is barbaric.
And as if they could read my mind as I walked through the malls here, all I wanted was a little nice small purse that could go with everything and BAM that’s what I got.
