Holidays '08: The Under $25 List - a list by tatorandtots

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Whether you need hostess gifts or unusually cool and creative "somethin' somethings" for your holiday gift list, these items will bust out of the package with style without breaking your bank balance.

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Sno Paints

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Winter storms turn the yard into a young artist's brand-new canvas with these easy-to-use squeeze paints that are designed especially for use on snow. Tinted powder dissolves easily in warm water, is harmless to people, pets and the environment, and magically disappears when the snow melts.

Set includes 4 paint packets, 4 squeeze bottles that look like crayons, and instructions. Sno-Paints Refill has 8 packets of color.

Updated Nov 12, 2008

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Shoes: Embellished Notecards

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A fabulous gift for yourself, a friend, a hostess at a holiday party.... I love that these notecards are packaged in a shoebox!

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Women’s footwear varied more in the 20th century than in the entire history of fashion. The great designers balanced form, function, and fantasy to create some of the most beautiful shoes ever made, even adapting styles from the past with a contemporary sensibility. Housed in the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the four sensational originals depicted on these notecards are highly imaginative works of art. Amusingly brought to life with faux-suede, sparkles, or rhinestones, the shoes on these notecards will please even the pickiest fanatic. The envelopes are lined with a patterned shoe motif.

5 each of 4 images, 20 cards per box. Boxed with 20 lined envelopes in a foil-stamped miniature shoe box. 5 in. x 3 1/2 in.

Updated Nov 12, 2008

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PAC-MAN Plush Helmet

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maybe if she looks like a video game, you'll pay more attention to her.

Updated Nov 28, 2006

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Haiku #23 Durable Funny Doormat

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Haiku #23 Ringing of the Bell. Barking Sounds Behind Door. Licker or Biter?

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A Day in the Life of a Dog Doormat

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The Dog, Day 751: My captors continue to torment me with bizarre rubber squeek toys...

Updated Nov 12, 2008

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Dad's and Mom's Cab Light Up Meter

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For the parents who feels more like a taxi driver than a parent, the Dad's Cab Light Up Cab Meter is the perfect funny gift.
**Slip is Included to change it to Mom's Cab**

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Place the Dad's Cab Meter on your dashboard, and turn it on when the ride starts, choose a rate mode of extortionate, high or regular and then start the digital time clock.

When the ride is over, give them one of these tariff fare cards which include payments due like: Bring me a mug of tea and the paper on the weekend, mow the lawn and weed the garden. complement my wardrobe for a week and more.

Updated Nov 12, 2008

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"Dress Me" Monkey

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I was going to intellectualize this along the lines of "Monkey See, Monkey Do" but as usual, I'm over-thinking it. The bottom line? It's just a ridiculously cute ("as a button"- oh let me just get a pun in, sigh) toy that is definitely going to be on my mind the next time I have a toddler in need of some retail lovin'.....

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Why is this velour monkey smiling? He loves to teach, and he helps adults make learning fun. As kids help the soft, floppy fellow on and off with his clothes, they discover the fascinating arts of zipping, buckling, lacing, buttoning, snapping, and rolling sock tops. Soon they'll be aping their new skills and having fun dressing themselves.

For ages 18 months and up.

Updated Nov 12, 2008

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Pass the Potato

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No Irish jokes, please.

Oh fine. Go ahead. God knows I've already got a few running through my big head.....

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This game is HOT! Pass the polished plastic potato around a circle of friends - faster, faster!! Whoever has their hands on it when the bell goes off is out of that round of play. But the fun doesn't end there - it's almost as much fun to watch others hastily hand the tater around. Wind it up to set the timer ticking and kids giggling.

For ages 3 and up.

Updated Nov 12, 2008

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String Games

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I've probably said this here before but just to be clear: I didn't have three ten-pound babies for nothing. My payment? The chance to passive aggressively encourage them to rewalk my own childhood footsteps. Kind of like a "life do-over." Only I hope they do it more gracefully.

The purpose? So that I can answer deep, provocative questions like, "How different would my life be if I hadn't sported 3-inch high vertical bangs in high school?" (Sidenote: I grew up in So. Cal in the 80's. So it was only partially my fault.)

This book made me think of one thing when I saw it: "I played those games. Now THEY will... err... I mean, can if they would like... play those games."

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Cat's Cradle, Crow's Foot, Jacob's Ladder - we remember well the happy hours spent playing string games handed down to us by our mothers and grandmothers.

Thankfully, Richard Darsie's careful, step-by-step instructions and photographs will help us teach our children. Three rainbow-hued cord loops that are much easier to work with than the yarn we used as kids are also included.

A special kind of heirloom for ages 4 and up.

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Hardcover, 8" x 8", 95 pages

Updated Nov 12, 2008

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