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TMN Contributing Writer Margaret Mason is the author of No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog, and publisher for Mighty Mighty Media, home of the award-winning shopping sites Mighty Goods, Mighty Junior, and Mighty Haus. You’ll find more of her online writing at Mighty Girl.
You’re a generous sort, but you don’t have much time (or cash). Ideas for gifts that won’t leave you paying off your credit cards through July.
You’re asked to buy an expensive, ugly bridesmaid’s dress, but aren’t invited to the shower. You bought the wedding presents years ago; they’re just in your closet.
A wedding invitation arrives without an RSVP card, and a bride wonders what to call a female “best man.”
Political conventions exist for the cameras, and the cameras like to see audiences with a sea of signs. But where do all those banners come from?