Gift Ideas 2007: Boyfriends, brothers and sisters
November 20, 2007
This is part two of a four part gift guide for the holidays. This guide is for people like me: you don’t have the largest budget and some times you’re stumped as to what gifts you can get for some people on your list.
This round I’m giving you gift ideas for the boyfriends, brothers and sisters on your holiday gift list.
Gifts for the BOYFRIENDS on your list
20×200 prints $20, $200, $2000
Insound.com Indie Rock In-A-Box Pick 10 of the top 100 CDs get 25% off + FREE ground shipping + neat gift wrapped box
Social Studies tees and tops Prices are not listed on the site, but I heard they are reasonable at around $15. Contact Social Studies for details.
Gifts for the BROTHERS on your list
Continuous inking system (relieves constantly having to run to the store for expensive ink cartridges for your printer)
Subscription to MAKE $34.95
Gifts for the SISTERS on your list
Elsita’s Etsy shop Prints start at $10
Retread tote $198 <-Yipes! But it’s your sister. She deserves cool and a tiny bit pricey!
Pink Grapefruit-Vanilla Body Polish $11.50
Tomorrow, gift ideas part three of four: Vegans, bff’s and kids.
Popular news: The Gap is in hot water over child labor in India
November 20, 2007
Funny (not so much in a ha-ha way) how the Gap has been doing this huge (RED) campaign to promote healing in Africa. It’s almost like they knew it’d only be a matter of time before their credibility would be compromised… again. Dammit, The Gap!
Apparel retailer Gap is canceling half of its orders with a vendor in India and promises to donate $200,000 to improve working conditions there. The move comes after revelations that some of its clothes were made by children as young as 10. Gap says it didn’t know that children were hired.
Um, it’s kind of your job to know where and how your clothes are being manufactured… you know, as a company that makes and sells clothes.
Please do not shop the Gap this Christmas. I am well aware that boycotting almost does no good in today’s economy (the big companies are just too big to feel the sting most of the time), but I’d be unethical if I didn’t say that something consequential should happen to a company that thinks its consumers are idiots and won’t care enough about the child labor thing to challenge it.
