Speaker 1: Hey, besties, Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2: Are you still scrambling to find the perfect holiday gifts?
Speaker 2: Don't worry, We've got you covered. Today is your show.
Speaker 2: So People Magazine's fabulous style and beauty director Andrea Labenthal
Speaker 2: is here with her ultimate last minute gift guide. It's
Speaker 2: packed with goodies for everyone on your list, from your
Speaker 2: pickiest friend to your impossible to shop for husband or
Speaker 2: mother in law, whoever that person is in your life. Yes,
Speaker 2: we've got options for every price point. Owen, did I mention?
Speaker 2: Andrea is also bringing a few treats just for you,
Speaker 2: because you deserve it too.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, December twentieth.
Speaker 3: I'm Danielle Robe, I'm Simone boys, and this is the
Speaker 3: bright Side from Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we
Speaker 3: come together to share women's stories, laugh, learn and brighten
Speaker 3: your day.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, Danielle. Can you believe it?
Speaker 2: We are just five days away from Christmas and the
Speaker 2: first night of Hanukhut?
Speaker 1: Are they on the same night? They are? Wow? Look
Speaker 1: at that unity. I get that. That's us. That's because
Speaker 1: the bright Side entered the universe this year.
Speaker 2: That's the astrologer we had on I think it was
Speaker 2: her too.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. She did this, You're welcome world. Honestly, here's
Speaker 1: the thing.
Speaker 2: No matter how much we plan, prep and promise ourselves
Speaker 2: that we're going to be ahead of the game for
Speaker 2: the holidays, there's always that one person on the list
Speaker 2: that we still need a gift for. Simon, I don't
Speaker 2: know about you, but it comes to me like in
Speaker 2: the middle of the night, I think I did everything,
Speaker 2: I got everyone a gift, and I wake up at
Speaker 2: two am thinking, oh shit.
Speaker 1: I forgot about my boss. Wait are you getting our
Speaker 1: boss a gift? Because if you are, I need to
Speaker 1: know we should discuss that.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, we'll discuss offline. I have not even begun
Speaker 3: to tackle my Christmas shopping, so I am all ears
Speaker 3: here to give us the four one one on last
Speaker 3: minute gift giving is People Magazines Beauty and Style director
Speaker 3: Andrea Lavinhal.
Speaker 1: Come on in here, guys.
Speaker 3: It is so nice to be here and the holidays
Speaker 3: season in the holiday spirit.
Speaker 1: In the Holiday.
Speaker 2: Spirit today is all about gift giving gift guides, which
Speaker 2: is so fun to talk about. But before we talk
Speaker 2: about our favorites, I want to know what your relationship
Speaker 2: to gift giving is.
Speaker 1: Are you a good gift.
Speaker 3: Giver, I like to think, so I have great ideas
Speaker 3: like for you guys, but for some reason, the execution
Speaker 3: when it comes to my actual friends and family doesn't
Speaker 3: always like play out the way I envision.
Speaker 1: So like, I'm fine, I'm fine. I have great ideas.
Speaker 2: Is gift giving or receiving a love language of yours?
Speaker 1: Oh one hundred and twelve percent? But I like acts
Speaker 1: of service?
Speaker 3: Actually that would be number one, And then gift giving
Speaker 3: is like right behind it.
Speaker 2: Take out the trash and then buy me a Jenny
Speaker 2: Kine sweater.
Speaker 1: Right right there, you go, perfect dream.
Speaker 3: Well, Andrea, we've asked you here today because People releases
Speaker 3: an extensive gift guide this time of year, so we're
Speaker 3: hoping you could walk us through it. What are some
Speaker 3: of the most popular items on the list. Okay, so
Speaker 3: we do a lot of different gift guides, and I
Speaker 3: kind of have my own separate, private one that I
Speaker 3: stashed for you guys with some of my best ideas.
Speaker 1: This one is.
Speaker 3: More like, okay, it's last minute, which is, let's be honest,
Speaker 3: most of us, you're going to someone's house or it's
Speaker 3: a family member, it doesn't really matter and you have nothing,
Speaker 3: so you go to literally any store. It could be
Speaker 3: a CVS, it could be a grocery store, whatever, and
Speaker 3: you create a starter kit for that person, so like
Speaker 3: a little bit of cliche items that best represent that person,
Speaker 3: and you put it together and it feels like a
Speaker 3: cohesive and kind of jokey, cute gift somebody who can't
Speaker 3: be without.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I always have like a protein bar
Speaker 1: in my purse.
Speaker 3: That's a terrible example, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Or their chapstick or their face wipes, or they always
Speaker 3: need tilet all or tampons. Like, create a little starter
Speaker 3: kit for them of all the things that you feel
Speaker 3: like represent them, and now you have a present.
Speaker 1: But really what you have is a CVS receip. But
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I love.
Speaker 3: This, but it looks like you put thought into it
Speaker 3: because you ran around the store thinking about them and
Speaker 3: what they would want.
Speaker 2: Well, anything personalized does require thought.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: Whenever I'm stumped on a gift, I always go the
Speaker 3: gift basket route. I just do what you're saying and
Speaker 3: just pile certain items that I think represent them and
Speaker 3: then present it really nicely and boom, takes the guesswork
Speaker 3: out of it.
Speaker 1: It's all about the presentation.
Speaker 3: You could go to the grocery store and just put
Speaker 3: together some like high end looking items that kind of
Speaker 3: like a really nice pasta with an olive oil and
Speaker 3: some fancy salt, and now you have like an Italian
Speaker 3: dinner night. Like you can create little vignettes. And again
Speaker 3: when you group things together and you put them in
Speaker 3: a little gift bag with some ribbon, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: we have a party. Guys, like, now we have a gift.
Speaker 3: We went from condiments to a gift, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. And it's not that expensive. Do you guys
Speaker 3: know that I carry ribbon and scissors in my car
Speaker 3: for this exact reason. I'm tying up gifts last minute
Speaker 3: because I live out of my cargs. I'm in La
Speaker 3: so I have a whole to go. Gift dropping situations
Speaker 3: is amazing. That's incredible. It's a true Hollywood story. You're
Speaker 3: the Santa Claus of Los Angeles. Another gift that I
Speaker 3: came up with that seems kind of like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: not that exciting, but it actually is is a magazine
Speaker 3: subscription for all of you listening who aren't familiar with
Speaker 3: paper products. This is a bound booklet, catalog looking thing
Speaker 3: with words and pictures about something you're excited about. And
Speaker 3: because people don't have magazine subscriptions the way they used
Speaker 3: to get one gifted to you is a year of
Speaker 3: surprise and delight. Every month the magazine comes and it's
Speaker 3: reading material, and it comes addressed to you, and we
Speaker 3: all like mail. And I just did this for my father.
Speaker 3: He was getting surgery, and he was thrilled. I got
Speaker 3: an architectural digest who doesn't want to look at rich
Speaker 3: people's houses and feel bad about themselves.
Speaker 1: It's a great gift.
Speaker 3: I think subscriptions are a great idea. I gave my
Speaker 3: dad an audible subscription because he has a really long commute,
Speaker 3: and every time I see him now, he tells me
Speaker 3: about the eight books he's read in this month alone,
Speaker 3: and just how this subscription has changed his life. Oh,
Speaker 3: he says, it's the best gift he's ever received.
Speaker 1: That's really nice.
Speaker 3: I think subscriptions are really nice. Except for the time
Speaker 3: that my frenemy I'm going to call her it's just
Speaker 3: based on this gift gave me six months to.
Speaker 1: The Brownie of the Month.
Speaker 3: Club, and I just feel like that's really mean to
Speaker 3: do to another girl, because who gets lives alone gets
Speaker 3: a giant box of brownies and he's one, Like, we're
Speaker 3: selling me.
Speaker 1: She was out to sabotage me and my stomach.
Speaker 3: That's why it was me and that's why it's a
Speaker 3: Frenemy gift six months a Brownie of the Month club
Speaker 3: when you live alone in your single please totally I'm
Speaker 3: with you. Okay, Wait, Another gift that I love. One
Speaker 3: of my favorite gifts I've ever received. A milk frother.
Speaker 1: Oh love.
Speaker 3: This goes under things you didn't know you wanted and needed.
Speaker 3: It's simple, they're not expensive. And every single day when
Speaker 3: I press that button and watch my almond milk froth
Speaker 3: and then pour it on my coffee, I feel like
Speaker 3: I'm living a better, more elevated life. It's just really
Speaker 3: adds a little bit of delight to my day. And
Speaker 3: it's from a milk frother.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: It's all took. Another gift that I got and then
Speaker 3: started to give is this thing called the Diamond Dazzlestick,
Speaker 3: which sounds like it was invented by a real housewife.
Speaker 3: Now that I say it out loud, but it's like
Speaker 3: a really good stocking stuffer or white elephant gift. It's
Speaker 3: like a little pen and it has a jewelry cleaning
Speaker 3: solution in it, and you can clean your rings and stuff.
Speaker 3: Because have you ever complimented a girl on her jewelry,
Speaker 3: And what's the first thing they say? Oh, my god,
Speaker 3: my ring's so dirty. It's so dirty, I have to
Speaker 3: clean it. Like that's It's the same thing with hair.
Speaker 3: Hair looks so good, and then she tells you the
Speaker 3: last time she washed it. So no one really buys
Speaker 3: themselves jewelry cleaner, but it is one of those things that, like,
Speaker 3: it's really nice to have, especially one that you could
Speaker 3: throw in your travel bag or whatever. So I love
Speaker 3: so good. So that's another one I love. And then
Speaker 3: I'm not like a chef by any means. But one
Speaker 3: thing that I've enjoyed giving and getting is what I
Speaker 3: call rich girls salt, which is those like the Jennifer
Speaker 3: Fisher Universal salt. It could be any fancy salt. This
Speaker 3: whole world of like luck salt is it's just it's
Speaker 3: not my it's not my realm, and yet it's so
Speaker 3: nice to have, and when you give it to someone else,
Speaker 3: it's like fifteen dollars. I'm obsessed with those super flaky
Speaker 3: sea salts.
Speaker 1: Yes, all of a.
Speaker 3: Sudden, you're like putting it on your like lean cuisine
Speaker 3: or whatever, and you're like, look at me, I am
Speaker 3: putting fifteen dollars salt on a three dollar meal. But
Speaker 3: it's another thing that just like Ella, it's the every
Speaker 3: day and it's not expensive. But people, I don't buy
Speaker 3: myself fancy salt. I brought it to a White Elephant
Speaker 3: gift party and it was a huge, huge hit. Okay,
Speaker 3: Malden Sea salt flakes are only eight dollars. There you
Speaker 3: go even better. I would call that less rich girl salt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love this idea. It's such a good gift. Yeah,
Speaker 1: high ends condiments.
Speaker 3: It goes back to like put it all in a bag,
Speaker 3: put in some tissue, grab some ribbon from your car,
Speaker 3: and there you go.
Speaker 1: Now you're like, it's a gift.
Speaker 3: Do you guys have like a gifting closet like where
Speaker 3: you repurpose like random candles you've been given and like
Speaker 3: when you're going to a friend's house, you just like
Speaker 3: grab it and try and hope they don't they weren't
Speaker 3: the person who gave.
Speaker 2: It to you last I have like a gifting, not
Speaker 2: like a closet. I don't want to overstate what it is,
Speaker 2: but it's like a little like a cubby and I
Speaker 2: but I remember what was gifted and what is brand new,
Speaker 2: you know, Like I have like new candles so that
Speaker 2: I can just grab and go, or new olive oil
Speaker 2: so I can grab and go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it gets a little bit like fruitcakey after
Speaker 3: a while, with like the one bottle of prosecco that
Speaker 3: your friend brought you for book club and then you
Speaker 3: brought it to so and so's house to celebrate her engagement,
Speaker 3: and then you get it back and you're like, I
Speaker 3: don't drink persecco, guys, I'm gonna so you have to
Speaker 3: be careful with that.
Speaker 2: The big one is champagne, right, because everyone gives it
Speaker 2: and like nobody drinks it.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. You just rotate for the rest
Speaker 3: of your life. Nobody should ever buy a new bottle.
Speaker 3: Just keep it rotating throughout. It's like the Sisterhood of
Speaker 3: the Trench Champagne.
Speaker 1: What is amans back to you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think that's it means something you close
Speaker 3: the loop, something magical happens. I'm not sure you also
Speaker 3: see that giving personalized stationary is another great gift, right,
Speaker 3: I'm like here for personalized anything, but stationary in particular
Speaker 3: is something that I've always liked getting because I never
Speaker 3: take the time to order myself note cards. It just
Speaker 3: feels like I missed that general. But I need them
Speaker 3: once in a while to write like a nice thank
Speaker 3: you note. So I don't want to buy the ones
Speaker 3: that are like impersonal, but I'm not going on some
Speaker 3: fancy stationary thing and taking the time to design it.
Speaker 3: So if someone does it for me, preferably someone with
Speaker 3: good taste who can choose like the nice fonds and stuff,
Speaker 3: and that's such a nice gift and you think about
Speaker 3: that person every time you write a card. Another thing
Speaker 3: I forgot to share that's on my list. This is
Speaker 3: more of a gifting tip. So if you're like me
Speaker 3: and your family exchanges gifts, what I like off property,
Speaker 3: Like we go to Florida to celebrate with my husband's family.
Speaker 3: I am not schlepping everyone's gifts and they may not
Speaker 3: arrive on time. So one of my favorite things to do,
Speaker 3: and it's great when it's last minute. I print out
Speaker 3: a photo of the gift they will be receiving, and
Speaker 3: they don't know about shipping delays, so don't worry if
Speaker 3: you ordered it that day, and then you just print
Speaker 3: it out. You just say it's coming in the mouth.
Speaker 3: And then I decorate the picture. I write some funny
Speaker 3: or cute you can put stickers, whatever. And then they're
Speaker 3: excited because they're getting a picture of the gifts, so
Speaker 3: they know what they're getting.
Speaker 1: And then they forget about it.
Speaker 3: And then ten days later, bam, the milk frother arrives
Speaker 3: and their life is changed and they think of you fondly.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 3: We've got to take a quick break, but we'll be
Speaker 3: right back with more last minute gift ideas.
Speaker 1: And we're back with Andrea Lavenhal.
Speaker 3: We've talked about a couple of white elephant gift ideas.
Speaker 3: You've got the frother, the diamond Dazzler, which is the
Speaker 3: jewelry cleaning pen. I also would add an electronic eyelash curler.
Speaker 3: They now make them so they heat up so you
Speaker 3: don't have to like apply the blow dryer heat to it.
Speaker 1: That's another cheap one that's good.
Speaker 3: What are some other cheap gag gifts or under twenty
Speaker 3: five gifts twenty five. Well, you know what you can
Speaker 3: do friends or twenty five that I think is a
Speaker 3: great gift is frame a photo. Again, this kind of
Speaker 3: falls under magazine subscription. It's like, but it's something that
Speaker 3: we just don't do that much anymore. And I find
Speaker 3: that we send each other pictures of each other all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: Look how cute we look.
Speaker 3: Look at this selfie, look at blah blah blah, but
Speaker 3: nobody actually frames them and has them anywhere. I love
Speaker 3: getting a frame photo, especially when I look really good
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 1: I think that's important. I'm gonna through out some curveballs.
Speaker 2: See what you think.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I love a great pair of socks. I'll take fuzzy socks.
Speaker 2: I'll take tube socks, especially if they have like a cute,
Speaker 2: fun little message on it.
Speaker 1: Love that. I love a sock.
Speaker 3: Especially if you know that the person likes to do
Speaker 3: pilates or yoga, like you could do that. If they,
Speaker 3: I don't know, have cold feet, you get them cashmere ones.
Speaker 3: If they like dogs, you get them ones with dogs
Speaker 3: on them. Socks are a good one.
Speaker 2: This is for all the book lovers out there. I
Speaker 2: love a little book light that you can attack to
Speaker 2: your book at night.
Speaker 1: So funny.
Speaker 3: I was going to get my eight year old son
Speaker 3: a book late and see if that changed his life.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's such a camp like something I
Speaker 3: have when I went to camp and it felt like
Speaker 3: you're under the covers reading.
Speaker 2: I think that's cute. I think that's a nice one.
Speaker 2: How about a shower bluetooth speaker. They have those for
Speaker 2: like under toe five bucks. You can stick them on
Speaker 2: the wall.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I've never gotten into speakers in the
Speaker 3: shower because a I think you have to like hang
Speaker 3: them up. Oh your said they just stick to the wall. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel like that would fall on
Speaker 3: my foot and see it fall sometimes. How many things
Speaker 3: in your life right now need to be charged?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Everything?
Speaker 3: Like everything in my life needs to be charged. And
Speaker 3: I cannot take on another thing with a us B.
Speaker 3: I can't, I say, no, especially kids toys. I bought
Speaker 3: a freaking starve for the top of my Christmas tree.
Speaker 3: It needs to be charged with a USB cord and
Speaker 3: worse if it needed batteries, So like, you can't win.
Speaker 1: I just I'd rather hear.
Speaker 3: Myself think or sing terribly because I don't have to
Speaker 3: charge either of those things. But it does feel like
Speaker 3: something some people who don't mind the charging life would do.
Speaker 3: One of the best gifts I've ever given someone is
Speaker 3: I gave my husband a box cutter from Amazon. I
Speaker 3: searched for like best box cutters. So here's the deal.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of packages. I shop a lot,
Speaker 3: I order a lot, A lot of stuff comes to
Speaker 3: our house.
Speaker 1: He is the head of that department.
Speaker 3: He is in charge of box breakdown for recycling, and
Speaker 3: he's been doing it for the longest time with a scissor.
Speaker 3: And you know what, there's a better way, and that
Speaker 3: way is with an incredibly sharp box cutter. And when
Speaker 3: I printed out the photo, because how weird if we
Speaker 3: traveled with a box cutter in our suitcase and pulled
Speaker 3: it out on Christmas morning. But like a prize and delight,
Speaker 3: so something they need but nicer. Now, this is a
Speaker 3: hot take that I know you'll someone one of you
Speaker 3: has to disagree. I hate experienced gifts. I don't like
Speaker 3: to give them, and I don't like to get them.
Speaker 3: I think, Andrea that I know, I know. Here's the thing.
Speaker 3: I don't want you really a millennial. No, I think
Speaker 3: I'm adjacent like Cusby. This is the cuspy part. So
Speaker 3: here's an example. For my birthday this year, I told
Speaker 3: my husband I want nothing except for my car to
Speaker 3: be detailed. And he said, is this a trick? And
Speaker 3: I said it is not. My car is filthy. I
Speaker 3: don't have time or the wherewithal to organize a detailing.
Speaker 3: I would love my car just cleaned.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Day before my birthday, he was like, do you have
Speaker 3: like a company in mind or like a day in time?
Speaker 1: I said, uh uh uh uh. The gift is that
Speaker 1: you do the work for me. You Google, you come
Speaker 1: up with the best place.
Speaker 3: Please use promo code because if you don't get a discount,
Speaker 3: I'm going to die and it's not a present. And
Speaker 3: then figure out my schedule. You know what days I
Speaker 3: work from home. Just make it happen. Like I don't
Speaker 3: the work takes the beauty gifts anymore.
Speaker 1: It's a negotiation between the two of us. I could
Speaker 1: do it myself. It's the same checking account. I just
Speaker 1: want you to organize it for me. That's a beautiful
Speaker 1: act of service. Did it happen for you?
Speaker 3: It did, and honestly, for two straight days my car
Speaker 3: was so clean and then my kids ruined it. But
Speaker 3: for those forty eight hours, I felt loved.
Speaker 1: But wait, that's an experience. What's wrong with well, I'm
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 3: If you're going to do an experience, like a gift
Speaker 3: card for something, go the extra step to make the plan.
Speaker 3: So say to your friend what days are you free,
Speaker 3: What Saturdays or what fridays in the next few weeks.
Speaker 3: Hold those while you can, and then you're like, we
Speaker 3: are going to this place for dinner on me. Because
Speaker 3: if you give someone a gift card, it takes forever
Speaker 3: for them to use it. They usually waste it. I
Speaker 3: have a stack sitting right next to me. It's really
Speaker 3: hard to take the next step. Like one year my
Speaker 3: husband got a photographer to take family pictures, but then
Speaker 3: I would have to find the photographer and arrange it.
Speaker 1: No, no, it never happens.
Speaker 2: And like dress your kids and get everybody's outfits done.
Speaker 3: That's a terrible gift, yeas was he said, you could
Speaker 3: have a few months of a trainer.
Speaker 2: No, okay, I have a low lift, amazing gift for
Speaker 2: this year. I'm going to go with the drop of
Speaker 2: Sunshine Wine starter pack. So there's a sparkling rose, a Chardonnay,
Speaker 2: and a red blend. You can gift it and separate
Speaker 2: it to multiple people and it's economically efficient. But I
Speaker 2: think this is a good one if you're wanting a
Speaker 2: low lift, high value gift. My question for you all
Speaker 2: is what do I pair it with? Like? Do I
Speaker 2: pair it with like a charcouterie board kit? Do I
Speaker 2: pair it with me be like a cool cute towel wrapping?
Speaker 2: How do you best gift alcohol and wine?
Speaker 3: I like getting two or four if it's not too
Speaker 3: expensive glasses. There's so many really cute wine glasses, not
Speaker 3: like the fancy stemmed kind, but something more fun and playful.
Speaker 3: I get a ton of stuff at Marshalls and home
Speaker 3: Goods and whatever. And again, if you put it together
Speaker 3: in a bag, it doesn't have to be expensive. It
Speaker 3: just makes it more of a cohesive, like thought out gift.
Speaker 3: But wine, it's wine. You could give me wine with anything.
Speaker 3: You could give me wine with socks or wine with underpants,
Speaker 3: and I would think that was fantastic. Wine with the salt.
Speaker 3: Wine goes with everything in my house. So I think
Speaker 3: you can't go wrong. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: You could also pair it with a nice wine opener.
Speaker 1: That's a good wine.
Speaker 3: I need a new Everybody could use a new wine
Speaker 3: opener or the champagne stoppers. Again, I think anything that's
Speaker 3: like useful and functional, but not something you would just
Speaker 3: like have, like an external charger. I saw some soccer
Speaker 3: mom at soccer whip out this amazing charger and she
Speaker 3: just put it on her phone and I was like,
Speaker 3: what is that? And I said to my husband, That's
Speaker 3: what I want for Hanukkah. So I'm not going to remember.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to buy it, but he should remember
Speaker 3: that was four months ago. Let's see how he does.
Speaker 2: Will you come and report back and let us know. Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So I've been looking at the Hello Sunshine gift guide
Speaker 3: for inspiration, and I'm looking at the brook Linen organic
Speaker 3: ribbed robe, which is around one hundred bucks, the Kitch
Speaker 3: Pillow eye mask, which sounds great for travel. Andrea, what
Speaker 3: would you suggest for the self care girlies in our lives?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. I First of all, I mask is
Speaker 3: always a good one, as is a robe, any kind
Speaker 3: of face tool, because face tools are kind of still
Speaker 3: that thing where if you know your friend isn't like
Speaker 3: has never ice rolled, this is the time in her
Speaker 3: life to introduce her to a jade roller.
Speaker 1: I also back to the beauty products.
Speaker 3: If there is something that you love and that you
Speaker 3: are like evangelical about an I cream, eye patches, a lipomb,
Speaker 3: a hand cream, don't gate keep it.
Speaker 1: Give it to somebody you love.
Speaker 3: A body cream that's really nice because it's like, this
Speaker 3: is my favorite, yeah, and I think you'll love it too.
Speaker 2: I have a question about favor gifts. I guess it's
Speaker 2: in line with sort of what you were talking about
Speaker 2: with your husband detailing your car. Do you ever think
Speaker 2: that they are worthwhile? I remember being a little kid.
Speaker 2: I didn't have any money, right, so like I would
Speaker 2: make a booklet of favors and give it to my parents,
Speaker 2: like I'll do whatever you say and not put up
Speaker 2: a fight, or I'll massage your feet for ten minutes,
Speaker 2: or whatever it is that are like favors. I sort
Speaker 2: of think this is interesting carrying it into adult life,
Speaker 2: like a book of favors from your husband could be
Speaker 2: really nice.
Speaker 3: You know, I just saw a suggestion that you can
Speaker 3: do that for your children, that you can give them
Speaker 3: a booklet of things you like a yes day, you know,
Speaker 3: things that you're willing to say yes too. Because if
Speaker 3: you say to a kid, we're having a yes day,
Speaker 3: and mommy has to say yes to everything, like, that's
Speaker 3: not a good idea.
Speaker 1: So they can use the yes book.
Speaker 3: So it's like an extra ten minutes of TV or
Speaker 3: a chocolate chip cookie for breakfast or whatever weird stuff.
Speaker 3: So I feel like that's the way that the booklet works.
Speaker 3: Here's my best tip for getting the gifts you want.
Speaker 3: Because it's hard for your significant other to shop for
Speaker 3: somebody who I don't know. It is like me and
Speaker 3: maybe you guys who shops a lot buys what you want,
Speaker 3: has a very distinctive idea of like what your style is.
Speaker 3: I sent him about ten links, very specific. I'll get
Speaker 3: down to the color and my size. I'll put promo
Speaker 3: codes because again, if it's purchased without the twenty percent off,
Speaker 3: I'll die. And I say, pick any of these, and
Speaker 3: I am always so excited to see of my crazy
Speaker 3: list what he hones in on and where he landed
Speaker 3: and why you're getting something from your own list. You
Speaker 3: just don't know what, so you still get a little surprised,
Speaker 3: but you're not going to be disappointed.
Speaker 1: That's such a good suggestion.
Speaker 3: It seems so like want want send them all this stuff,
Speaker 3: but you might as well make it easy. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: then they get to shop your list. So I'm a
Speaker 3: good gift receiver to bring it all the way back around.
Speaker 3: I actually am a receiver if you do it right,
Speaker 3: if you follow my directions.
Speaker 1: Too, don't go off list.
Speaker 3: My strategy is I've found the most aesthetic friend in
Speaker 3: my friend group, and I've selected her as my delegation
Speaker 3: to my husband. So whenever he has questions or if
Speaker 3: there's something specific that I want, I'll plan to see
Speaker 3: with her and then she'll have a conversation with him.
Speaker 3: But she's already pre vetted through me, brilliant.
Speaker 2: It's time for another short break, but we'll be right
Speaker 2: back with Andrea Lavenhal's holiday gift ideas. And we're back
Speaker 2: with Andrea Labenthal.
Speaker 3: Okay, Andrea, as we wrap up our gift guide conversation,
Speaker 3: we want to hear your take on the best last
Speaker 3: minute gifts.
Speaker 1: For specific people in our lives.
Speaker 3: This is going to be a little bit of a
Speaker 3: rapid fire, so I'm gonna throw out a type of
Speaker 3: person in our lives, and you feel free to say
Speaker 3: the first.
Speaker 1: Gift that comes to your mind, oh god, this is fun.
Speaker 1: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: All of this that we've been talking about, it's all
Speaker 3: been training leading up to now. Okay, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 3: So best friend, Oh my god, the first thing that
Speaker 3: came to mind is really good sweezers and tell her
Speaker 3: to put them in her car so that when she's
Speaker 3: waiting for our kids that pick up and sees a
Speaker 3: chin hair, she can yank it.
Speaker 2: Now genius, genius, generous and thoughtful.
Speaker 1: How about a sibling.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going to go back to Danielle's socks siblings.
Speaker 3: Socks for siblings, but no under pants, and maybe a
Speaker 3: T shirt. I think it's really nice to get like
Speaker 3: an elevated like a cool T shirt, nice T shirt,
Speaker 3: like a You're a T shirt or a Lululemon like
Speaker 3: a nice shirt and some socks. Yes, socks for siblings.
Speaker 3: Sounds like a lanthropy. I'm sure it is one out
Speaker 3: that it is. Okay, parents or maybe even inn in law.
Speaker 3: You have to get them something that's going to help
Speaker 3: their electronic situation, like you got to get them again
Speaker 3: back to charging, some kind of really easy charging station,
Speaker 3: or we just got my parents' extra extra long phone
Speaker 3: cords for charging so they're not like next to their outlet.
Speaker 3: So I think anything that upgrades their current system, or
Speaker 3: like a subscription to whatever streaming service they don't currently have,
Speaker 3: audible anything like that.
Speaker 2: Love.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great to do it, but you got
Speaker 3: to set it up for them. Don't be a jerk
Speaker 3: and leave it with them. Okay, how about a coworker.
Speaker 3: I think coworker is that's when you get a nice book,
Speaker 3: a really nice, thoughtful hardcover that they can like, sign
Speaker 3: off and go read a book.
Speaker 1: Cute love it. How about a teacher.
Speaker 3: That's the person that needs your Starbucks gift cards. To
Speaker 3: be honest, there's not enough coffee in the world to
Speaker 3: deal with anyone's children. So I say get them something
Speaker 3: like useful like that, and then combine it with something
Speaker 3: just nice and thoughtful, like a hand cream or some
Speaker 3: lip bombs, because I feel like teachers need to be pampered.
Speaker 3: They need practical which is coffee and pampering. Well said,
Speaker 3: I've given my teachers my kids teachers I cream and
Speaker 3: written in the card this is for the stress that
Speaker 3: my children have caused.
Speaker 1: You like the stress wrinkles?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, how about a teenager.
Speaker 1: They're the hardest. They hate everything.
Speaker 3: I usually go with sweatshirts, like oversized hoodies or crops sweatshirts,
Speaker 3: or beauty products because they're all such like monsters for
Speaker 3: makeup and skincare.
Speaker 2: Now monsters for Sephora. Yeah okay, younger kid.
Speaker 1: So what am I get?
Speaker 3: My kids are super super into legos, so I mean,
Speaker 3: that's kind of easy, but you know it's also a
Speaker 3: great gift. I've been getting them white sketch pads with
Speaker 3: fresh sets of markers or pens or crayons. They love
Speaker 3: to draw. They go through it all the time. Markers,
Speaker 3: they lose their tops, It's all over the place. There's
Speaker 3: something so nice about having a fresh set, so I
Speaker 3: do that. I also, they're gonna hate this gift, but
Speaker 3: I got them new water bottles.
Speaker 1: I love that one eco front me too.
Speaker 3: Here's my rule. Anything you buy your kids between Thanksgiving
Speaker 3: and the Holidays is a gift. I don't care if
Speaker 3: it's a toothbrush and they needed it, jazz it up,
Speaker 3: put some ribbon on it, put it in their stocking,
Speaker 3: and now it's a present. Put their name on it,
Speaker 3: put a sticker on it. Whatever, it's a present. So
Speaker 3: they're getting water bottles too.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you guys get yourself gifts for the holidays?
Speaker 3: I mean, the amount of stuff that has come to
Speaker 3: this house since Black Friday that is for me from
Speaker 3: me is a resounding yes to that question.
Speaker 1: What about you, guys? Would you buy? I bought? I
Speaker 1: just updated my work wardrobe.
Speaker 3: I just bought a few pieces from Maritzia, and I'm
Speaker 3: mixing and matching and.
Speaker 1: That's all I need.
Speaker 3: I really have cut back on shopping and I'm okay
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 2: I bought myself like cosmetic packing cubes with many or
Speaker 2: like with another set of cosmetics, so when I travel,
Speaker 2: which I do often, I don't have to repack all
Speaker 2: the time. Like they're already set brilliant both toiletries and makeup,
Speaker 2: which is a splurge. But I just I can't keep
Speaker 2: packing unpacking.
Speaker 1: But you gave yourself the gift of time, and time
Speaker 1: is money, yes.
Speaker 2: Well said. And the number one best gift I've bought
Speaker 2: myself this holiday season are new sheets. I haven't bought
Speaker 2: new sheets in quite some time. I'm so excited to
Speaker 2: sleep on new pillowcases.
Speaker 1: They all match.
Speaker 2: I had so many different sets over the years that
Speaker 2: at some point I don't know really what I was
Speaker 2: sleeping on.
Speaker 3: I would like somebody to come in and organize my sheets.
Speaker 3: That's a better gift at this point, even do it? Yes,
Speaker 3: like put them in by whose sheets go wear? Throw
Speaker 3: out the ransoms. Mine's a mess. But yes, that would
Speaker 3: be an act of service. So maybe I'll put that. Andria,
Speaker 3: have you seen those boxes that all the organizers on
Speaker 3: Instagram are telling you hues to organize the sheets? Yeah,
Speaker 3: but like, where's the person who organizes them in the boxes?
Speaker 1: That can't be me.
Speaker 3: I can't be the same purchasing I just purchased a
Speaker 3: bunch of boxes. I can't believe you said that. And
Speaker 3: MYO pair said to me, what are these four? And
Speaker 3: I said, I don't know, therefore organizing things and.
Speaker 1: She looked at me and we both just left them.
Speaker 3: And they're still sitting on the floor of the linen closet,
Speaker 3: just waiting.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say happy holidays to everybody, happy organizing,
Speaker 2: happy gift giving. And Andrea, you are just the most
Speaker 2: fun and just so hilarious.
Speaker 1: Thank you for brightening our days.
Speaker 3: Happy shopping to all of us, and like, just keep
Speaker 3: passing the prosecco around till the end of time.
Speaker 1: May the best add to your cartwin. Thank you, Andrea.
Speaker 2: Andrea Labnhal is the style and beauty director for People Magazine.
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