I'm slobbering over these Phone Receiver Salt and Pepper Shakers from Charles and Marie ($22) — which, though they're made of vintage telephone receivers, were never used in their original capacity, so you can be sure no one has already slobbered on your shakers.
They're genius — not to mention achingly cute and a perfect gift for the vintage geek-lover in your life — because you get all the thrill of vintage with none of that ABU (already been used) situation.
Do you ever joke around with friends and say things like "If you pay me $5,000, I'll sail to China and back?" I know I have, at least after a beer or two, and now there's actually a legit site that brings fairytale fantasies to fruition.
Things For Sale That I Will Mail You lists personal assignments for artist David Horvitz to achieve, like asking for $2,443 to go to Iceland to find you three things or offering to go to a small Okinawan island for $1,626 to send you an envelope of star sand (this one is my fave). You can donate as much as you like, and once David receives the full amount, he adds the task to his "view all purchases" page. It not only lists all of the adventurous tasks he's fulfilled, but it includes the name of the person who paid for his trip. A very cool idea indeed.
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Get ready to call yourself Santa — and not go broke during the holidays by checking out today's installment of Bargain Buys, which includes some fun movie tech and deals on MoMA Store accessories.
I'm just sayin', you could literally be on your way to the salon when you realize that you don't know what kind of new style or hair color you want. Though I plan on getting this app, iStylist, just to see how I'd look with Reese Witherspoon's bob or Posh's pixie, and show whoever is nearest to me how fab (or fug) I'd look with a new do.
It's $2, but that's a small price to pay for realizing how washed out your complexion looks with that color you were thinking about before the peroxide hits your head.
Get ready Netflix subscribers with Macs . . . you can now watch movies and TV shows instantly on your laptops. The service that was previously announced a few months ago is officially out of beta, so you can stream videos to your heart's delight — at no extra cost.
