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Preparing for the Holiday Season

Secrets To Getting Through The Holiday Season

Karen Luniw | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Holidays, Holiday Season, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Tips for Holiday Season, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Holiday Season Commentary, Family, Thanksgiving Tips, Living News
Karen Luniw

How does one get through the holiday season unscathed by the family biting sarcasm, the off-hand negative comments about your love life or lack of employment? Those unsaid, yet thick feelings of disapproval?

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Thanksgiving Turkeys: How They Get From The Farm To Your Dinner Table

businessinsider.com | Gus Lubin and Lawrence Delevingne | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Holiday Season, Peta, Eating Matters, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Thanksgiving, Business News

It's turkey time. Millions of Americans will dive into the big bird next Thursday, smothering it with gravy or cranberry sauce or both. Many will al...

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Holiday Shortcuts

One For The Table | Posted 11.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Thanksgiving, Holiday Season, Making Gravy, Turkey Gravy, Homemade Gravy, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Style News
One For The Table

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need a whole turkey to make gravy. However, you must slow-roast turkey to get good gravy. Here's a tip for avoiding all that gravy anxiety.

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Five Steps to an Organized (and Joyful) Holiday Season

Carolyn Rubenstein | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Organizing, Holiday Season, Living News, Perseverance, Overwhelm, Living, Carolyn Rubenstein, Aby Garvey, Huffington Post, simplify101, Holiday Planning, Holidays, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News
Carolyn Rubenstein

If you're already feeling stretched thin (and not feeling too joyful about it), then it's time to step back and use a few organizing strategies to make a new plan.

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Gifts To Get Your Coworkers That Avoid Paralyzing Awkwardness

Michelle Madhok | Posted 01.05.2009 | Style

Read More: Gifts for Coworkers, Office Gifts, Awkward, Gifts, Shopping, Coworkers, Holiday Season, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Office, Office Etiquette, Style News
Michelle Madhok

Office gift-giving is a little dicey this year: second-year banking analysts aren't getting $100k bonuses, some companies are closing, others are downsizing and lots of people seem sad.

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Six Ways to Cut down on Waste During the Holidays (and Avoid the Ugly Sweater)

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Holidays, Chanukah, Preparing for the Holidays, Green Living Tips, Christmas, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Environment, Green Living, Christmas Shopping, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

Recycling wrapping paper and cards can drastically reduce your holiday waste and generate a big dose of nostalgia.

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How to Make Your Own Holiday Candy

Karen Leland | Posted 01.03.2009 | Style

Read More: Candy, Food, Holiday Season, Cookbook, Cooking, Chocolate, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Style News
Karen Leland

I'm a fan of candy and not ashamed to admit it, but I've always done the crunching and let someone else create. This holiday, I decided it was time to step into the confectioner's shoes.

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Seven Ways to Bitch for Charity

Sharon Glassman | Posted 01.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Charity Christmas Gifts, Holiday Parties, Holiday Season, Complaining, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Bitching, Sadd, Donating to Charity, Suze Orman, Emotional Uplift, Holiday Stress, Holiday Humor, Philanthropy, Giving, Alternatives to Traditional Gifts, Ways to Survive the Holiday Season, Spirituality, Living News
Sharon Glassman

As money mistress Suze Orman says, you can't teach abundance if you're broke. And you can't teach merriment if you're feeling drecky. Owning your bitches is the first step to disowning them.

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Traveling Home for the Holidays

Jodi R. R. Smith | Posted 12.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Holidays, Travel Tips, Jodi R R Smith, Mannersmith, Thanksgiving, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Modern Etiquette, Snl, Travel, Etiquette, Thanksgiving Travel Tips, Manners, Home News
Jodi R. R. Smith

While traveling over the past few months, I have had my toothbrush case opened and toothbrush carefully inspected. As if I would use it again after those dirty gloves had touched the bristles!

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Hospitality Checklist for Holiday Hosts

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Style

Read More: Houseguest, Holidays, Travel, Humor, Happiness, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Holiday Travel, Family Gatherings, Style News
Jeffrey Shaffer

Realize that, in addition to their luggage, guests may also bring along a wide assortment of lifestyle habits and personal preferences that will lodge in your memory forever.

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From Bonuses To Gifts: How To Handle The Holidays At Work

Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Office Etiquette, Office Life, Christine Hassler, Office Politics, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Tips for Holiday Season, Careerbuilder, Home News

During the Holiday season, the lines of giving and receiving gifts can become a little blurry at the workplace especially since everyone holds different positions with different salaries.

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Nigella Lawson's Favorite Christmas Recipes

Daily Mail | Nigella Lawson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Christmas Recipes, Christmas, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News

Christmas seems to instill an unparallelled tremor of expectation in people. We seem to feel that for this crucial period we must suddenly become grea...

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"Shopdropping" Brings Art And Anarchy To The Aisles

New York Times | Ian Urbina | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Shopdropping Consumerism, Shopdropping Anarchy, Shopping, Shopdropping Capitalism, Shopdropping Christmas, Shopdropping, Christmas Shopping, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News

This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it's also the season of spirited shopdropping. Otherwise known as reverse shopl...

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Reading Robert Frost, Waiting On Christmas

John Lundberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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John Lundberg

Here in Washington DC, if you aren't standing in a Starbucks, you don't see much evidence of Christmas. There are three big, beautiful wreaths hangin...

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Your Favorite Tradition: Ugly Holiday Sweaters

New York Times | ERIC WILSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News

It may be this: Sometimes, in our hoity-toity haste to malign a tradition that is seen as perfectly normal in just about every part of the country wes...

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The True Holiday Spirit

Daphne Oz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Holiday Gifts, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News
Daphne Oz

We are spiritually evolving when we exhibit internal growth and change as a direct result of how we perceive the world and our place in it.

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Gifts That Give (Like This Rat)

NEED Magazine | Liz Werner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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This gift guide was originally published in NEED magazine. (Full disclosure: We're kind of obsessed with this magazine at the Living section. Check ou...

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How To Make Merry (Without Doing Too Much Damage)

Times Of London | Amanda Ursell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Holiday Foos, Holiday Diet, Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain, Tips for Holiday Season, Eating During the Holidays, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News

It's eight days until Christmas and if, like me, your trousers are feeling tight and waistline panic is setting in, it might be wise to take stock. If...

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How To Make The Most Of Your Holiday Greetings

Samara O'Shea | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Holidays, Holiday Season, Preparing for the Holidays, The Balanced Life, Christmas, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News
Samara O'Shea

It's not too late--to send holiday cards that is. I just bought my stack the other day. I'm sure some of you were hoping it was too late as cards can ...

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Happy Holidays From the HuffPost Team in New York

The Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Holidays, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News

Greetings from SoHo-Ho, and the HuffPost holiday party, where the festive tunes are a-blastin', the cups are a fillin', the lords are a-leapin', an...

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The Fix Finder: 24 Last-Minute Gift Ideas That Will Save Your...

Michele Wissot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Holiday Shopping, Holiday Season, Style, Holiday Gifts, Christmas, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Tips for Holiday Season, Living News
Michele Wissot

The date is Friday, December 14, 2007. Do you know what that means? If you're already done with your holiday shopping, then you're probably scheduli...

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Eating My Way Around Mexico

Katie Lee Joel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Appetites, Mexican Food, Aguila Y Sol, Refrigerator Roll Recipes, Huitaloche, Eating Grasshoppers, Mexico City Markets, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Museo De Artes Popular, Katie Lee Joel, Preparing for the Holidays, Holiday Season, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Tips for Holiday Season, Living News
Katie Lee Joel

This year, I want to go back to tradition and recreate the Christmas dinners of my past.

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Tips For A Meat-Free Holiday Dinner

Guardian.co.uk | Andrew Shanahan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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December 25 isn't just for carnivores ... Three cooks share their recipes for delicious meat-free Yuletide feasts with Andrew Shanahan For more hol...

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Go Green: Give Nothing

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Preparing for the Holiday Season, Biomimicry Institute, Green Gifts, Tips for the Holiday Season, The Giving Life, Heifer International, Olivia Zaleski, Gifts That Make a Difference, Donations, David Suzuki, Green Christmas, Living News
Olivia Zaleski

Why is it that every holiday shopping season, I somehow believe the most useless mechanized piece of plastic will make the perfect Christmas gift? E...

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The Holidays Can Give You A Heart Attack (Literally)

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Christmas Heart Attacks, Holiday Season Heart Attacks, Holiday Season Stress, Heart Attacks, Tips for Holiday Season, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News

Those lords-a-leaping and ladies dancing may want to consider the downside of the holidays: Heart attack season has arrived. December and January are ...

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