
Are you racking your brain about what to get all the tackiest people on your holiday gift list? Have no fear: As an authority on all things
tacky, I have scoured the Internet for the most tasteless, tantalizing, and hilarious gifts I could find. So what are you waiting for?

With its festive parties and unlimited opportunities to bake and cook, December is one of my favorite months. Here, I've rounded up my must haves for the holidays. Enjoy!

If you did a lot of cooking over the Thanksgiving holiday, I'm sure you did a lot of dishes. And if you did a lot of dishes, I'm sure your hands are feeling the effects. Even if you weren't scrubbing away, the cooler months often produce dry hands that need some extra TLC.

Santa Claus is coming to town and well, he's already at the mall! Whether you use the snapshot of your kids with St. Nick for
holiday cards or to showcase on the mantel, many families make posing for one an annual tradition.

To kick off our
girlfriends and sister gift guide week and to continue on into
guys and brother gift guide week we're giving away two hot new laptops. The first is the
Windows Vista powered Acer Aspire Gemstone Blue Notebook, which comes with Dolby Home Theater sound and a CineCrystal full 16-inch HD display. While the second is a
Windows Vista powered Sony VAIO CS laptop that weighs only 5.7 pounds and comes with an Intel Centrino 2 processor, 4GB of RAM and a whopping 320GB hard drive.

Pop singer
John Mayer, a guy whose not afraid to say what he needs to say, wants everyone to get in the
holiday spirit. How should they show their seasonal cheer? By baking a cake.

The weather outside is frightful, but that doesn't mean your lil girl's coat shouldn't be delightful. Warm outerwear for lil one is a necessity during the holidays to keep her cozy.
Share the Winter coats that your little princess is wearing or just the ones on your wishlist.

This weekend my girlfriend is hosting a holiday sample sale for
her jewelry line. After the sale, I've invited everyone over to my house for a tree-trimming party. The event will kick off the holiday season, so I want it to be festive and fabulous in everything from the invites to the specialty cocktail.

Holidays are on my mind lately, and I love seeing all the creative ways others decorate their homes at this time of year. I'm always looking for inspiration to try new things in my own home. We each have our own traditions for the holidays and the seasons, and personalizing our homes is often a large part of those rituals.

After hearing the news that a Wal-Mart employee
was brutally trampled to death by discount-hungry shoppers on Black Friday, you might think eager shoppers everywhere turned out for after-Thanksgiving sales. While other retailers avoided such tragedy on the biggest shopping day of the year, they didn't draw in the same crowds and are now apprehensively facing the bad news that 2008 could end in the red.
The prospect of getting something for less might have caused some aggressive crowds, but the number of shoppers out this Black Friday didn't compare to those in recent years.