Got shopping tips? MiddBlog will get you started. Feel free to share your brilliant plans for gift-giving this season through the comments. Or just email a color-coded and indexed online gifting spreadsheet as one friend sent me today…
- Apple: One-day sale on iPods and MacBooks. Still expensive.
- Timbuk2: There may be one ounce of hipness left in their messenger bags which increasingly populate our campus. Have them ship to Midd for free through Dec. 8!
- REI: OK, you’re going to need gear-up for our long winter with proper socks, scarves, and hats. This is the place to do it with their Winter Sale through Dec. 1.
- JCrew: Go ahead, perpetuate the JCrew Middlebury myth with a discount through Nov 29.
- Kiva.org: Feeling gifting without the consumption part? Kiva.org gives micro-loans to entrepreneurs in developing nations. Give a gift certificate.
- Economist: Need to break the Midd bubble? Get a subscription to the Economist. News, once a week, non-partisan, smart, detailed, and awesome.
- Etsy: Buy handmade. Etsy links you up with thousands of hand-crafters.
- Amazon: The future of textbooks is The Kindle. Woah, ERES just got easier.
- Footie Pajamas: You know you will be the life of your hall if you’re seen with one-piece footie pajamas.
- BrighterPlanet: OK, this isn’t a gift. But you should probably be buying your presents with this credit card that fights climate change as you shop. (yes, it’s a Middkid alumni project)
- Threadless.
- Tom’s Shoes: An alternative online shoe store that, for every pair you buy, donates a pair of shoes to a child in need. Check it out.
- Gift cards: Bad.
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I hope MiddBlog will feature local businesses in Middlebury, Bristol, and Vergennes when students return to campus next week. There are holiday events in each downtown this month, welcome relief from mindless internet shopping during the semester’s final weeks.
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