36 photos in galleryWe love giving presents, And let’s be honest: We also love getting presents, because, really, does anyone really legitimately HATE that? Please. If we didn’t all love receiving gifts, we wouldn’t ever give any, because so much of the point is to bring that warm “YAY STUFF! THANK YOU FOR CARING ABOUT ME!” joy to somebody else.
Last week, tons of our readers gave us suggestions on Twitter and Facebook for the items they are most stoked to give — or get — this holiday season. We mined those, mixed them with our own, and have come up with this handy-dandy way to procrastinate your December workload with a little extra online holiday shopping. The economy thanks us all.
And so might The Children: If you see anything you want, drop by our Mulu page first, find it there (we loaded everything we could from this guide onto that page, plus some pretty extras; they will ask you for the secret password — it’s “Swinton.”) and click to buy, and then a portion of your purchase price goes to charity — in our case, Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), which is very close to my family’s heart. Mulu is in beta right now, so it might be buggy, but we think it’s a neat idea. And no, we’re not being paid to say that (nor, as some people have wondered, are we being paid to put any of these items in our guide. We would never, ever do that without being up front about it; we take very seriously your trust in us). We just think it’s swell for the season of giving to involve as much actual giving as possible.
@majsa80 We always cover as much of it as we can! -H
Fug Nation Gift Guide: 2012 Holiday Edition
Last year, when we made up a Gift Guide, portions of each purchase went to charity — and y’all ended up raising more than a thousand dollars, just by doing a little holiday shopping. Doesn’t that rule? So we decided to do it again, scouring our browser histories and grabbing all the bits and bobs we ripped out of magazines (yes, I totally still do that) to come up with a list of gifty things we’re digging on right now — in some cases, aided and abetted by Fug Nation itself.
And again, it’s for charity. Here’s how it works, and please bear with me, because it’s worth it: Each item’s slide links to its spot on our Mulu page (or you can browse there directly if you prefer). From there, mouse over the photograph and then click “take me there” to buy that item from the merchant, and a portion of the proceeds goes to Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), an organization that is dear to our hearts because I have a wonderful, smart, beautiful niece with autism, and watching her navigate the world — and lose an incredibly important, formative relationship when her best pal, my father, passed away — really underscores the fact that the older children like her get, the tougher the world becomes for them. It costs you nothing but two or three extra clicks, and every last cent it generates means something to a whole lot of people. Really, you’re shopping for The Children. And since Whitney Houston taught us that the children are our future, you’re therefore shopping for HUMANKIND.
Further: If you want to help out the children and families affected by Hurricane Sandy, many of whom will have to conjure holiday spirit from amid the rubble, Toys for Tots has a special donation page to help make things merrier and brighter in the blighted areas.
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