2008 was not a boring year. It's been a real-life miniseries with a cast of hundreds and millions of unwitting extras. Comedy, tragedy, irony, pathos, hope, fear, victory and defeat played out daily on our home screens, in magazines and newspapers. We saw avarice and greed, love and compassion, scandals and fairy tales, scoundrels and heroes. 2008 woke the slumbering, energized the complacent, and bewildered the certain—a pretty good set up for 2009, The Sequel.
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The following is an excerpt from the article "10 Whimsical, Recession-Proof Holiday Gift Ideas" by Leslie M. M. Bloome that appeared in today's Huffington Post. Click the image if you want to visit the site for the complete article.
1. Favorite childhood books. Find out what your husband's/wife's/sister's/etc favorite bedtime tales were ... then go on Bibliofind.com and scout out the edition that he or she might have read as a kid. I have found wonderful old copies of everything from Ferdinand to Harriet the Spy for as little as 1 cent - no joke.
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