Holiday Gift Guide

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Advertising Director Retail Sales Manager Account Assistant Production Manager Creative Services Operations Manager HGG Editor General Manager

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28 Gift Ideas for Dad 31 Save Money this Holiday Season 34 The 15 Worst Gifts 49 Holiday Happenings: Upcoming Events at Duke and in Durham

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Ideas for a Priceless Holiday Gift

by Gail S. Bernstein, Ph.D.

The season is here once again. No matter what holiday you celebrate, no matter what you believe, you’re being bombarded with exhortations to celebrate, to love, to buy and to give.

The Internet and airwaves are filled with stories about miracles and family gatherings that may be more fantasy than reality. Remember that gifts do not have to be homemade or extravagant to be loving and important.

Here are some suggestions for nonmaterial gifts that capture the spirit of the season.

Give Yourself the Most important Gift Give yourself the gift of realistic expectations. So many of us understand others are human and imperfect, but forget the same is true for ourselves.

Forgive yourself for being human, and for having limited time, energy, and resources.

Give the Gift of Time Offer to babysit for someone with small children. Go to lunch with a friend you haven’t seen in a long time.

Plan a special evening with your lover. Take time for yourself.

Give the Gift of Life If you haven’t done it already, fill

out an organ donor card and carry it in your wallet. Or go to your local blood bank and give blood.

You can have the satisfaction of knowing you probably saved a life, especially since the holidays are often filled with life-threatening accidents for many people.

Give the Gift of Unusual Sights and Sounds The world is filled with them, and many are free or inexpensive. Take someone special on a tour. There are lights and decorations everywhere, free concerts at shopping malls, free days at the zoo.

Give the gift of laughter. There’s plenty of pain and suffering in the world, and laughter helps us cope. Go frolic on a playground, play with a child and tell silly jokes, take someone to a comedy - move, play, or concert.

Laughter isn’t just for kids. Call someone and make it a point to be silly until they laugh.

Tell a stupid joke, rhyme something funny, or sing a little tune. Send a silly question to them in email.

Give the Gift of An Open Mind Having an open mind means trying new or uncomfortable things, even if a part of you resists the idea. New things are difficult for many people, so oh, so worth while! Here are a few ideas to get you pointed in the right direction: • Listen carefully to someone who disagrees with you. Find something to agree

with in their communication, and don’t comment on the rest.

• Watch a television show you’ve never seen.

• Try a new dish.

• Wear something different.

• Say hello to someone who is quietly standing by, saying nothing. Speak to an elderly person in a parking lot. Smile to someone in a window.

• Listen to the words of a song you’ve always ignored. (You can now look up lyrics to almost any song online through the major search engines.)

• Apologize to someone you know you’ve hurt - even if they hurt you, too. Be big enough to mend broken fences if the relationship is one worth salvaging.

• Join an free online support group and talk about things you don’t normally discuss with other people.

• Give the gift of love. Tell the important people in your life how much they mean to you. When you are on your death-bed, you are not likely to regret having said, “I love you” too often.

Approach the season with an attitude of openness and curiosity. You’ll be amazed at how different you can feel - and all for FREE!

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Holiday Gift Ideas Your Dad will Love

by Jennifer Moore

Sometimes we all wait until the last minute to do holiday shopping for dad.

If this is the case with you and you need some last minute gift ideas for dad. You are in luck; here are some great ideas for a last minute gift for dad.

Last minute gift idea for dad - Plaque

Last minute gift idea for dad - Lifetime fishing license Does your dad love to fish? Instead of him buying a fishing license every year, give him a lifetime fishing license as a last minute holiday gift. Now when he goes fishing, he will not have to worry if his fishing license has run out.

On an eight by ten piece of paper, write down the feelings you have for your dad and tell him what you think of him as a dad. Place it in the center of a large picture frame. At the top of what you have written, place a picture of your dad and mom together. Place pictures of all the children they have together around the paper you have written. Sign your name at the bottom. This last minute gift idea for dad only costs you a few minutes of your time, but will be something he will treasure.

Last minute gift idea for dad - Vacation to favorite place

Last minute gift idea for dad - Hunt club fees

Does your dad have family he has not seen for a long time? If so, talk with them; tell them you will pay the way for them to come for a visit for the holidays. This will make an excellent holiday gift surprise for your dad.

Does your father hunt in a hunting club? If he does, pay the fees for the hunting season for your dad. This will make a wonderful last minute holiday gift because he will now concentrate on killing a big buck instead of the fees killing his wallet.

Does your dad have somewhere he has always wanted to visit, but never got the chance for one reason or the other?

Give him an all expense paid vacation to his favorite place as a last minute holiday gift idea. He will appreciate the free vacation and the relaxation that comes with it.

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How to Save at the Holidays The holidays can get expensive. Here are some ideas to trim costs!

by Heather Lalley

. Search estate sales and flea markets for inexpensive mismatched dishes. They make the perfect vessels for delivering home-baked goodies to co-workers, friends and neighbors. Best of all, there’s no need to ask them to return the plate.

Set a spending limit on gifts from your spouse or closest friends, says Sara Noel, who runs frugalvillage.net. You could do a second-hand gift exchange.

Or only swap stocking stuffers. Noel and her husband give each other the same “favorite things” each year. She gets a box of chocolates and he chooses nuts and cheeses.

Talk to your family about volunteering or giving charitable gifts to take the focus off of buying and wanting. Help out at a food bank or soup kitchen. Or agree to exchange gifts that support charities.

Give the gift of time. Make gift certificates or coupons to offer free baby-sitting to your friends or to prepare a home-cooked meal for them.

Kids could give breakfast in bed to their parents. A husband might offer candlelight dinner at home.

Let the kids make wrapping paper. Stock up on inexpensive butcher paper or newsprint and let your young artists go to town with fingerpaints, rubber stamps, even stickers. Each package will be a one-of-akind.

Get thrifty with decorations. Use branches, pine cones, wire and ribbon to create your own holiday wreaths. Let kids work on cut paper snowflakes (embellished with glitter glue for extra sparkle) or other decorations.

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15 Worst Holiday Gift Ideas You’re sweating, panicked. You’re about to recycle an old gift, buy a weight-loss book for Aunt Josephine or grab the Victoria’s Secret catalog. Stop! Break the cycle of Holiday Gift-Shopping Syndrome!

Pressure, stress and confusion, inexplicable choices, a complete lapse of taste.

Alzheimer’s? No, it’s Holiday GiftShopping Syndrome! If you suffer panic attacks at the mall or you have recurring nightmares about the colossal gift gaffes you’ve made over the years -- you may be an HGSS sufferer.

Take two Advil and keep reading because the only cure is to spot the pitfalls early. The following primer will help you save yourself some angst -- and quite a bit of money -- by avoiding these classic gift-giving faux pas. (And your nearest and dearest will be ever so grateful when you give them stuff they like this year.)

The not-so-subtle suggestion: There’s nothing quite like watching the expression on people’s faces when they open one of these: a set of meditation tapes for Mr. Type A, a low-carb cookbook for your sister, or an Elizabeth Arden makeup and spackling extravaganza for grandma. Just sp pac don’t if they all go in on a gift don’’t be b surprised su for fo yo yyou u next x yyear: a one-way ticket.

The useless gadget: Everyone has Th he u se el someone some so m on o e on o their list who is seemingly impervious It might be your impe m erviou us to o gift-giving. g boss, dad bosss, yyour bo ou ur d ad or some other (inevitably) male ma ale relative. ellatiive e They appear to have no interests, in erest sts no style, no obvious needs. So you you race ce to to one of those stores that specialize “stuff guys like” and spend more c al alilize e in “ than th you should on a PGA-approved golf ball cleaner. In case he ever starts golfing.

Why? Why, why, why?

The lingerie trap: My husband passes along this lesson learned from hard experience: Never buy lingerie for a woman unless she has ripped out the page from the Victoria’s Secret catalog and circled the exact item herself. If she opens a box and sees something that looks like a black satin hanky, it just opens up a can of worms: “Why does he want me to wear that?

Does he need me to look trashy? Doesn’t he like me the way I am? Next thing you know he’ll want me to wear a blond wig and fishnet stockings like a streetwalker!”

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You can go from surprise to Splitsville in five or six mental leaps. Way too expensive on sooooo many levels.

The deadly weapon: My editor admitted that he briefly considered buying his 12-year-old son a water-balloon slingshot (because he wanted one himself, of course). But after reflecting a bit on the damage that a water balloon can do to unsuspecting passersby after traveling 500 feet from his backyard to a nearby road, he decided against it. Unless you’re just dying to test the limits of your liability insurance, stick to Hannah Montana and video games.

One for the price of two: You really want that Bobbi Brown lipstick for yourself, but you’re in denial. So you get it for a friend and talk yourself into believing she will like this gift, when what you’re unconsciously hoping is that she will give it back to you -which she doesn’t. So after Christmas you end up buying the damn thing for yourself anyway, thus spending twice as much money and making only one of you happy.

The maroon mistake: It’s almost always a bad idea to give clothing to someone you don’t actually live with. And even then you have to be careful (see “The Lingerie Trap,” above). You’ll invariably buy either the wrong size or the wrong color or both, like the time I randomly bought my aunt a quilted maroon vest. Why did I think she would like a quilted maroon vest when she neither wears vests nor the color maroon?

The guilt-edged party gift: Ack! You’re invited to a holiday party at the last minute and you don’t have time to even pick up a bottle of wine. But you do have time to throw some ribbon around those earrings your dad gave you last year and give them to the hostess. Is this worth the thousands it will cost you in therapy bills to overcome your guilt? Consider the cost -- especially when your dad meets said hostess at your own holiday party a year later, and she’s wearing your earrings. Just buy the wine, will ya?

The joke’s on you: Before you spend $20 on whoopee cushion or another joke item, think about flushing that $20 down the toilet. Is that funny? We didn’t think so.

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by MP Dunleavey . (I once gave my sister-in-law book when for the same money you can fourth scarf. give a tome? That two-thousand-page the same book three times.) If you’re not volume of the sixth installment in the sure, ask someone who might remember life of Lyndon Johnson is MUCH more last year better than you do.

Treasures from King Tut’s tomb: It’s aldesirable than a book someone might actually read. Sure, the megabook can ways so tempting to buy from those slick be read by those with more time than museum catalogs. How can you go wrong taste, but it can also serve as a flower giving a replica of something that has press, a door stop and kindling. Four been sitting in the Smithsonian Museum for a hundred years? But unless you know gifts in one! that your cousin in Denver loves Egyptian Inventiveness or desperation?

Gifts made by your own $40-an-hour artifacts or really wants a lamp that sprouts hands: At some point, the Spirit of Frugal- from the head of Queen Nefertiti, forget ity will pin you to the floor and tell you that it. Warning: If it looks tasteful, keep shopthe best way to save money during the ping.

The pro-am present: My brother is a holidays is to make all your gifts by hand.

Resist this impulse! First of all, just be- cooking maven. Ask him the difference cause you don’t have money doesn’t mean between braise, stew and sauté and you’d you have talent. Second, handmade gifts better have a good hour on your hands. always cost more than you think, in both So guess what I never give my brother? time and money. My truly talented sister- Anything to do with cooking. I know, it’s in-law, Deirdre, decided to make people tempting. Your brother-in-law plays a mean jewelry one year. She quit when she found game of golf. Therefore: DON’T waste out how much it was costing her in sup- your money on a golf gift. He already has plies, never mind the all-nighters spent it. And now he has to return it.

AND FINALLY... stringing tiny beads.

The thoughtlessness that counts: Don’t Things that can’t be exchanged on this planet: Resist the urge to go down to your get pierced earrings for your friend who local “Tofutti ‘n’ Things” boutique and buy doesn’t have pierced ears (I did). Don’t buy a one-of-a-kind set of embroidered Bolivi- cookies for a diabetic. No booze for the an hankies imported by the proprietor her- teetotaler. Don’t get “Fear of Flying” for a self for your sister who lives on the oppo- born-again Christian. You get the idea.

With these 15 rules in mind, you can site coast. The odds are good your sister will hate them and curse you for making easily avoid the worst gift-giving mistakes. her buy a $400 plane ticket to exchange You’ll save time. You’ll save money. And you will thank me when your credit-card them.

Last year’s gift, again: My mother’s best bill comes in January and, thanks to this friend gave her a kaleidoscope. Several list, you haven’t bought a damn thing for times. At least two Christmases and a birth- anyone.

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November 20 Duke Theater Studies presents “The Lower D’s” Play Sheafer Lab Theater in Duke’s Bryan Center, Science Dr 8 pm Autumn in the Arboretum Garden Tour The Sarah P. Duke Gardens, 426 Anderson St 10 am

November 21 5K Turkey Trot for Special Olympics Washington Duke Inn & Gold Club, 3001 Cameron Blvd 9 am

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November 27 Black Friday Benefit Beer Festival Triangle Brewing Company, 918 Pearl St 3pm – 7pm “Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 7:30 pm

November 22

Annual Bull City Classic Mount Zion Christian Academy, 3519 Fayatteville St

Handel’s Messiah Sing-a-long Duke Chapel, Chapel Dr 7 pm

November 28

November Dances Reynolds Theater in Duke’s Bryan Center, Science Dr 8pm

“Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 2 pm and 8pm

November 26

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Thanksgiving Day Buffet Bel Gusto at the Millenium Hotel Durham, 2800 Campus Walk Ave 12-2 pm

November 29

“Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 7:30 pm

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December 1

Durham Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops Concert Durham Armory, 220 Foster St 7pm

Holiday Decorations Workshop The Sarah P. Duke Gardens, 426 Anderson St 2pm – 4pm

Handel’s Messiah (Live Music) Duke Chapel, Science Dr 7:30pm

Duke Chorale Christmas Concert (Live Music) Duke Chapel, Science Dr 7pm, pre-concert organ and carillon holiday music 6:30 pm

“A Trailer Park Christmas” Play Common Ground Theatre, 4815B Hillsborough Rd 7:30pm

“Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 7pm

“Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 8pm

December 2

“Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 7:30 pm

December 5 Santa Train Museum of Life and Science, 433 W Murray Ave Call or check website for times

Duke Symphony Orchestra Concert (Live Music) Baldwin Auditorium, Duke East Campus 8pm

Brightleaf Square Holiday Festival Brightleaf Square, Duke and Gregson Streets 12pm – 4:30pm

December 3

City of Durham Holiday Parade and Tree Lighting Downtown Durham 4pm; tree lighting 5:30pm

Critical Mass Bike Ride Corcoran and Parrish Streets 5:35pm

Duke String School Concert Baldwin Auditorium 3pm, 4pm and 7pm

“A Trailer Park Christmas” Play Common Ground Theatre, 4815B Hillsborough Rd 7:30pm “Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 7:30pm

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December 6 Santa Train Museum of Life and Science, 433 W Murray Ave Call or check website for times “A Trailer Park Christmas” Play Common Ground Theatre, 4815B Hillsborough Rd 2pm Handel’s Messiah (Live Music) Duke Chapel, Science Dr 3pm Velvet Ribbons- A Holiday Celebration with the Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus First Presbyterian Church 3pm – 5pm “Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 1pm and 6:30pm

December 8 Fall Wine Dinner – Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Fairview Restaurant at the Washington Duke Inn, 3001 Cameron Blvd 7pm “Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 7pm

December 9 Santa Train Museum of Life and Science, 433 W Murray Ave Call or check website for times “Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 7:30pm Really Terrible Holiday Concert (presented by RTOOT) Reynolds Theater in Bryan Center at Duke, Science Dr 7:30pm

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December 12

Santa Train Museum of Life and Science, 433 W Murray Ave Call or check website for times

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“Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 7:30pm

Christmas in the Carolinas During the Civil War Bennett Place State Historic Site, 4409 Bennett Memorial Rd 10am – 4pm

A Rockapella Holiday Carolina Theatre, 309 W Morgan St 8pm

The Triangle Youth Ballet Presents “The Nutcracker” Carolina Theatre, 309 W Morgan St 7pm

December 11 Santa Train Museum of Life and Science, 433 W Murray Ave Call or check website for times Nativity Celebration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 6:30pm – 9pm Duke Homestead Christmas by Candlelight Duke Homestead State Historic Site and Tobacco Museum, 2828 Duke Homestead Rd 7pm – 9pm

Nutcracker & Broadway Holiday Dance Performance Reynolds Industries Theater in Duke’s Bryan Center, Science Dr 7:30 pm “Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 2pm and 8pm

December 13

Nutcracker & Broadway Holiday Dance Performance Reynolds Industries Theater in Duke’s Bryan Center, Science Dr 7:30 pm

Santa Train Museum of Life and Science, 433 W Murray Ave Call or check website for times

“Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 8pm

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The Triangle Youth Ballet Presents “The Nutcracker” Carolina Theatre, 309 W Morgan St 7pm Nutcracker & Broadway Holiday Dance Performance Reynolds Industries Theater in Duke’s Bryan Center, Science Dr 2pm Young Harpists Concert Durham County Library, 300 N Roxboro St 3pm “Phantom of the Opera” Musical DPAC- Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St 1pm and 6:30pm

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