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Cookie baking, decorating, stuffing stockings, building a holiday village scene with Iron Man and Thor action figures — just like a huggable snowman discovered, everyone has traditions for that time of year.We’re a blended family with kids ranging in age from 17 to mid-30s. As our kids have moved from…
I had an ex-boyfriend who wasn’t the best gift-giver, but he really wanted to be. So he started writing down ideas for gifts throughout the year, and by Christmas, I couldn’t believe he had remembered something I mentioned months ago. He shared his trick with me, and I was impressed.…
It’s traditional for our family to go Christmas tree shopping together, even though my kids are now 15 and 17 and practically leading their own lives.This year was no exception. We found a brief window between my daughter’s clock-in time for her part-time job at a gift store and my…
Official inflation reports have been in chaos since the government shutdown, so we took matters into our own hands.Business Insider turned to its readers to gauge whether grocery hauls, shopping sprees, and fuel were more expensive while official data reporting was in question.The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks roughly 80,000…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sir Christopher Ball. It has been edited for length and clarity.In the few years before my 70th birthday, my doctor informed me I had become a bit overweight and had high blood pressure. This came as a shock to me, considering…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Pat Santiago, a 28-year-old cofounder of Accelr8, based in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Last year, I moved to San Francisco to cofound an AI startup. Living in a hacker house seemed like the best way…
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My husband is Jewish, American, and from New England. I am a first-generation immigrant from Eastern Europe.I was baptized in Bulgaria and grew up in an Orthodox Christian household, whereas my husband was bar mitzvahed and went to Hebrew school. In other words, we come from completely different cultural and…
