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EP 123: Annual Holiday Gift Guide
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t’s officially that time of year — our annual Holiday Gift Guide is here and we are coming in hot with ideas for literally everyone on your list. In this episode, Candace and Whitney each share one favorite pick in the categories of for you, for baby, for toddler, for him, for home, and for friends + family. These are things we genuinely love, use, and would happily recommend to any mom friend in a group chat (aka you).
We break down why each gift made the list, what we personally love about them, and who they’re perfect for — with plenty of laughter, mom tangents, and “add to cart immediately” energy sprinkled throughout. Whether you’re shopping early, panic-ordering in the school pickup line, or just building a wishlist to text your husband, this episode is here to make your holiday season easier.
You can shop our full guides here:
Whitney’s Full Gift Guide: HERE
Candace’s Full Gift Guide: HERE
✨ What’s Inside This Episode
- Our honest, unfiltered mom-takes on the best gifts of the season
- Something for every budget and every personality
- A handful of extra mentions because we physically cannot stick to one pick
- The items we’re personally ordering for our own families
- And zero gatekeeping — ever.
🛍️ Links & Resources
All products mentioned in the episode can be found in the links above or on our Instagram so you can shop along as you listen.
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Transcript
Introduction to the Mom Group Chat Podcast Hosts
00:00:07
Speaker
There's no right way to do it. Oh, we're gonna get into it.
The Evolution of Black Friday Shopping
00:00:14
Speaker
What up, moms? I'm Whitney Williams, and I'm here with my best friend, Candice, and we're the Mom Group Chat Podcast. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Hi. We're talking hello Black Friday, baby.
00:00:28
Speaker
We're talking Christmas shopping, Christmas gifts, all of the holly jolly fun things. I am very excited. Which, don't we agree, and we've talked about this, like getting overwhelmed, like every like Black Friday isn't really a thing anymore. It's more like everyone's doing sales already, which, oh darn, like I'm shopping. I'm constantly shopping. I'm constantly getting ads for 20% so...
Targeted Ads and Shopping Inspirations
00:00:56
Speaker
Thank God I share my cookies. Like I literally shared my cookies with Chappie Wrap, which is a blanket company. And they launched like um this artist I really love. they She did like a collab with them. And i'm like, oh, that's cute.
00:01:08
Speaker
Boom. Got a direct mail piece because I accepted fucking cookies. They have my address. Wait. What are you talking? Okay. I have no idea what you're talking about with the cookies like on the internet. Yeah.
00:01:20
Speaker
Oh, okay. They're allowed to get your information and serve you ads. Like you have to accept, but that's all a new thing. just, I press except for everyone. Well, me too. That's what i'm saying. okay God bless cookies because I got a direct mail piece from them with a 20% off code. And I was like, you got me.
00:01:38
Speaker
I've been wanting it. I literally did not know that that's like what that was doing. I just press accept and like move on with my life. Yeah. And then you get served targeted ads, which I love. Honestly, I love a targeted ad. Truly.
00:01:53
Speaker
i am your target audience. I'm going to accept. Thank you so much. I will take your discount. i feel like I'm not quite ready to shop, I don't think. But um this exercise of putting this together was like a good jolt in
Holiday Shopping Strategies
00:02:08
Speaker
the right direction. i was like, okay, I need to like really start thinking.
00:02:12
Speaker
Yeah. We talked about this, I i believe, in the whatever episode. i don't even know. But like how my mom was like already all up my butt about what to buy the kids. And I was like, I'm not there. And now I'm here.
00:02:26
Speaker
And I'm there. It just took me. I had to get away from birthdays. It's been two weeks and now
Gift Giving and Family Expectations
00:02:32
Speaker
back. Yeah, it's tough for you because you have birthdays that like end right around this time. So yeah. All it took was two weeks and I'm back.
00:02:42
Speaker
You're back. I'm ready to shop again. I need some inspiration, to be honest, still. I feel like i when I was searching for these things, like it didn't quite like scratch the itch I wanted it to. I need some i need to be served more ads. So, um Internet, if you're listening to this, please serve me some new inspiration. um oh my God. I need it.
00:03:07
Speaker
I am loving like TikTok like and it's saying like um girls Christmas and it'll be like a slide yeah of different things they want. I I'm getting in. I did look at a couple of those. Yeah. And the stuff is so good and like so niche and like lots of cute home stuff. Mm hmm.
00:03:29
Speaker
Yeah. I did get some ideas for some people in my family from those. Like I i saw this one. i mean, it's not on my list that we're talking about today. But my mother-in-law is like very hard to buy for. She has is the girl who has everything. yeah And – And I saw this sweater that had these like little bubbles of embroidery of like initials and you can get them with like all of your kids or grandkids. i don't know. It was very cute looking. It wasn't it sounds weird when I'm describing it, but it was like very cute. And I was like, oh, I think I'm going to remember that for my mother in law.
00:04:05
Speaker
Yeah, um I also had something I didn't put on the list, which we we decided to do what we did last year, which is like choose one thing. We're not trying to be overwhelming. yeah and We're not influencers. Like we're not pushing gifts. It's just like things that we saw we like.
00:04:20
Speaker
It's fun. It's fun to talk about whatever we love shopping. But like I also saw something where it was like it's a square marble candle holder and it looked so chic. And I was like, that's so beautiful for a coffee table. Like,
00:04:34
Speaker
I would love to receive that. And I looked at it. It was $80. I was like, okay, that's a little expensive for a little candle holder. But if I received it, I would be thrilled.
00:04:48
Speaker
I really like... So when
The Appeal of Everyday Luxuries
00:04:50
Speaker
I was deep diving into the TikTok gift guide realm to do some research for this, I i realized that the category that I like the most are is what what the TikTok girlies are calling...
00:05:04
Speaker
everyday luxuries. Yeah. That's exactly what it was. Yeah. Like taking things you already use in your everyday life and like elevating them. And that's the stuff that like, if my husband is listening to this, which I am certain he is not, like, that's what I want. I just want like cute things that will like elevate my every day. That is it.
00:05:25
Speaker
um I was on that and then it was like trap like little travel luxuries. Do I travel here and there? Not a lot. I don't need travel luxuries, but it was like cute, like beautiful little carry on cases like makeup bags. um I did put in here like that road blush that's like on the go. Like how like chic is that? My favorite.
00:05:48
Speaker
Yeah, it's just like so cute and like what and gift to receive for like a friend or like whatever. ah I really do love receiving a gift.
00:05:59
Speaker
I do. Okay. Who doesn't? I know, but there are some people are just like, I don't care. And I like, I gift giving is definitely not what, you know, I really do love receiving a gift.
00:06:15
Speaker
Well, I just feel like some people are not into it as much. And I love giving a gift too. I want to be the person who like you open something and you're like, oh my God, this is so thoughtful and like smart or cool or pretty. So it means a lot to me. I also, it goes back though to like my love language being words of affirmation. I need, I want to hear from you that you loved it. And yeah it was amazing. Yeah. know It's also funny. So my mom, she was, I don't know what she was watching, but she was like, i I got some interesting information about like buying, overloading kids with toys at Christmas and it becoming less special and this and that. And she's like, and really you just should buy them one or two things. And all I could think was,
00:07:03
Speaker
I mean, feel like christmas Christmas and birthday is like when you're allowed to overindulge on your children. Like I took away from like that from what she was saying was like, don't go into Target and buy something every freaking time and just give them everything they want. It's like I'm going to spoil my kids on their birthday and Christmas.
00:07:25
Speaker
Yeah. Sorry. I can't wait. I think, I don't know. We struggle with this a little bit. I know I've talked about it in past episodes. Like our families tend to go a little overboard with toys on Christmas and birthday. So I have been really pushing for experiences and um things that are not toys for little ones. Yeah.
00:07:49
Speaker
I don't know. I'm like, I don't expect like my mom. I'm like, don't buy them 10 things. Like, I don't expect you to buy them things. I want to buy them 10 things. Like, you don't have to do that.
00:07:59
Speaker
I don't
Personal Gift Recommendations
00:08:00
Speaker
want you to do that. See, that's the problem. i don't do that because I know my mother-in-law and mom are going to. I'm so sorry, but... um I just need to apologize to everyone in advance. I have like ah cold and it is...
00:08:18
Speaker
I'm so sorry. it is like so drippy today. i am dripping from every orifice of my body and I'm so sorry. i feel like you're going through what I went through when they the kids started school. Because remember how you used to say you always had to like hide me clearing my throat on the pot? Oh, yeah.
00:08:38
Speaker
I've edited that out a lot. But I'm going to do it today for me. Do you do it? No, you've gotten better. That's what I'm saying. Now you're the throat goat. I know. Now I'm the eh-eh-eh.
00:08:50
Speaker
Jeez. Even though, hey, I live in Tennessee. Like, you got to forgive me. There's allergies here. The weather is koray So...
00:09:00
Speaker
Man, I'm struggling today. And like I leave for New York City in the morning and I'm just like, I just don't want to deal with this, which I am happy that it's like moving. That sounds gross. I'm so sorry.
00:09:13
Speaker
But yesterday it was just I was so congested and I could feel it. And today it's like moving around, which is a good thing. You know, I'm getting it out. But I'm like, I'm over it. I'm over it.
00:09:25
Speaker
Have you taken anything? Mucinex. That never works for me. Just doesn't. It does. I think that's what loosened all this up, honestly. Chris always tells me take it. But honestly, I might take a prednisone today. I have it. Hell yeah.
00:09:44
Speaker
Just to like zap me into, you know. So I think that's what I'm going have some left over too. So nice I saved that for my my rainy day hives, you know. Yeah.
00:09:58
Speaker
Okay, shall we get started? Yes! I'm like so excited to talk through this because we haven't done like a shopping thing in a while. know. We typically do like favorite things or like, I don't know, we haven't done one of these in a while and I love, I genuinely love talking through them. So I'm excited.
00:10:15
Speaker
Yeah, and I haven't, I don't know, um I just haven't like um bought anything yet. So this was like good, like you said, inspiration to look through things. um yep I guess we can start with ourselves. Like we broke this up and into it categories, which is like personal for a mom.
00:10:32
Speaker
baby, toddler, and then husband, home, and family, friends. So we have different categories, but for myself, y'all know I am a crew neck girly, and I did this last year. I'm doing it again. I'm doing a different Aerie crew neck though, and I've been wearing it. I've posted it already, but I've been living in it. It has little pink dainty roses on it,
00:10:56
Speaker
So obsessed. And it has, I might have to buy this today. It's 30% off. I know what I'm saying. Like, Candace, just get it. Wait, it's so cute. Is it lightweight too? It's so lightweight. Okay. like that. That's why I've been wearing it. And it has like kind of um pretty sleeves. It's not just like a straight sleeve. It's like a little billowy. Yeah.
00:11:17
Speaker
So nice it lays so nicely. I'm obsessed. I've been wearing it every other day. i just got like pink cocas from Chris for my birthday. So I look so cute. I must say in my little outfit at drop off. cu What size did you get? Because it looks quite large. Yeah, it' ah I got a medium.
00:11:35
Speaker
Okay. That's what i needed to know. Yep. I will be ordering that at the end of this podcast because that's so cute and it's on sale. I got it on sale too. Merry Christmas to me. I bought it in October. It's been on sale forever. So they'll probably like not to like pressure, not to pressure anyone, but they sell out like every year Aries pullovers sell out.
00:11:56
Speaker
And that one's really cute. I'm in. Done. Cool. Beautiful. Okay. Mine to nobody's surprise is a makeup product.
00:12:07
Speaker
We love your ex. The truth is like I struggle. I was texting Whitney because I struggled with this. I'm like, oh, like I'm always talking about makeup. Like a makeup product feels so like, oh, another makeup product. But it just is always what I, I am always going to love getting a beauty gift. I just am. And this eyeshadow palette in particular is So stunning. It is on the pricier side. It's $82, but it is quite large. It has, let's see.
00:12:42
Speaker
There's 24 shades in it, like 24 eyeshadows. God. It's quite quite large. It is the Natasha Denona Eye Sculpt Texture and Tone Eyeshadow Palette. It is the perfect neutral shades for every day, but also if you wanted to like do a smoky eye,
00:12:58
Speaker
And in particular, so many, i get so many messages whenever I do my makeup about my eyeshadow my I feel like – and i I've had some people say, like, your makeup always looks so, like, cohesive. Like, yeah whatever. And I think it's using a pinky brown shade on my eyelid for every day. Like, my everyday eye look is just, like, a mauve-y, pinky brown eyeshadow. And this palette has so many good, like, mauve-y, pinky brown eyeshadows. And this is on my Christmas list. I didn't buy it in the Sephora sale because –
00:13:34
Speaker
I just had to prioritize other things, okay? i had i had a lot to buy. i needed to restock some favorite products. So I didn't end up buying this. And I was like, this is a good gift.
00:13:47
Speaker
And I told Candice, I said, listen, this is what the people want from you because you are so good at it. I was like, I would have never even heard of this if you didn't bring it up. Also, for you listeners, Candice has a makeup tutorial out there. And if you want it...
00:14:04
Speaker
please DM Candice. She will send you a link on how she does her makeup and how she looks so good and flawless. Like it is a gift that keeps on giving because you could always refer back to it. So. Oh my God. Thank you. I recommend purchasing that from Candy Mama. That is also a good gift. And not a plug. She did not tell me to say that. I didn't. I'm so, that's so nice of you. Thank you She's thrilled. I'm I'm thrilled.
Gift Ideas for Toddlers and Husbands
00:14:30
Speaker
Do I get commission? I love – I'll give you a kickback, girl. I'm just kidding. I love makeup. I love talking about makeup.
00:14:38
Speaker
In my, like, newsletter, I said this. I was like, if you have a question about your skin type or what – like, literally send me a DM. it It would make my whole day. It genuinely would. I would love to help you personalize your makeup purchases. So send me a DM. wow That's my favorite thing to talk about. That is really nice. That's like me with home stuff.
00:14:59
Speaker
Talk to me. Okay. So us, we're pampered. We got makeup. We got a crew nap. We're cozy. We're looking good. baby which we haven't been in the baby world in a bit yeah two years ish um but something that is like sways baby for me and also like kind of lingers into toddler is this new tubby todd like christmas set i got bamboozled not bamboozled i did it to myself i bought the halloween set And it had it is so like beautiful. um
00:15:34
Speaker
And it comes with so cute. I know it really is. It's just so cute. And it's um a cranberry mandarin scent. So it has like a shampoo, conditioner, an everyday lotion.
00:15:46
Speaker
um super cute like I said I bought the Halloween one it it also has like options that comes with bath bombs um the kids loved it we've been using it since October I'm like okay I guess I'll purchase the Christmas one too like how fun is this such a good gift too for someone who's expecting oh my god how cute are those bottles I know wow Very cute.
00:16:11
Speaker
So I love that. I'm going end purchasing all of these things, think, unfortunately, for my wallet. Remember when you weren't inspired and now you are? No, all I needed to do is just come on here and talk about it.
00:16:23
Speaker
Okay. Mine is ah a cheaper, like it's on the cheap side. This is a good, in my opinion, gift.
00:16:33
Speaker
I obviously have Evie who is, I feel like now in the toddler phase, but I have been spiraling in true mom fashion about her speech because Alice was so freaking advanced and talking so much at Evie's age. And Evie's just a little slower and a little not not talking as much.
00:16:56
Speaker
And this is on my list of things to get her. And it is um the talking flashcards toy where it's like it comes with like a little – It almost looks like a Polaroid camera, but it kind of you like stick a flash card in it and when the flash card is in it, like registers whatever word is on the flash card. So you press a button, it will say the what's on the flash card. And then at the top, they can see the word. So honestly, it's good for Alice too for like sight letters and sight words. um
00:17:28
Speaker
But I feel like this is such a good gift for babies that are on the verge of talking or you're trying to help them with speech. it's a great thing to do with them. You can like, you know, ask them to choose a flash card and i don't know. like Margo would like it too. Honestly. Yeah. So I know it's baby, but honestly i will be getting this for Evie for Christmas.
00:17:51
Speaker
I feel like it's a good, good gift. And it's only like $12. It's, Yeah, this one's $12.59 on Amazon. Oh, that's great. I love that. All right. Scooting right along to toddler. um I did a boy gift and a girl gift um for mine. Perfect.
00:18:12
Speaker
I said I wanted to get this for Margo for her birthday, and I waited. But, and thank God I did, because I was looking all over the place. I was looking for, like, dress-up hanging rack where I could put it in her room. I'm trying to make her room, like, magical fairyland. Like, you know what I mean? I just want it to look like...
00:18:30
Speaker
cozy and fun. And so I was like, I need a dress up clothing rack. One of my friends got the cutest one from Walmart. It is a hundred dollars. I'm like, thank God you show me this. I'm looking at all these other stores, pottery barn. They're so expensive, which a hundred dollars is like, yeah you know, is what it is, but it comes with a mirror. coming with cubby i just recently thought I need to put a full length mirror analysis room. She's always coming into my office. Well, that has one. link mirror i know Yeah. So it's so freaking cute. that It comes in pink and white. um So whatever you choose. But I was like, I really love that. And I can put it in the corner and all her beautiful like Anna, Elsa, Moana, all her dresses hang up. So cute. So I was thinking that for like one of her big gifts. So cute.
00:19:18
Speaker
And then I got this idea. What? Oh, I said love it. Okay. I got this idea from one of my friends. It is an auto shop engine builder for Graydon. And it is literally like the front of a car and you open the hood.
00:19:35
Speaker
It's awesome. You open the hood and you get to like work on the car like a mechanic and And was like, that is so freaking fun. I think he would love it. I actually think Margo would really like it too. um So I put that on there because I'm like, what do you get a four-year-old that has like almost everything now, basically? So um I figured this is like a really fun, like busy toy for him to play with and keep in his room.
00:20:02
Speaker
And it will also, what I was going to say is this could also be an outside toy. Yeah. Like, for for i Because I know something we struggle with here is that we don't have a lot of room inside. So I love asking for like outside toys. But this is kind of indoor-outdoor. It could be either. For sure. I agree because it's um like a plasticky. It could survive outside is what you mean.
00:20:25
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. For sure it could. Yeah, it yeah it definitely could. And it looks so fun. I think he would be thrilled to get this. Yeah. Amazing. Amazing. Okay, I only did one because I have two girls, and honestly, they want the same things, to be honest. And this is actually something we already own for the girls, and it is hands down our most fought over toy.
00:20:51
Speaker
And it is the Mom's Makeup Play Kit from Super Smalls, which if you're not familiar with Super Smalls, cut it is one of my favorite brands. They have the...
00:21:04
Speaker
cutest stuff. I think I got that for Margo last year. like um Honestly, like preempt like too early. She plays with it more now. This makeup kit is hands down like our most fought over toy. and It's the reason I will be buying... To be honest, I'm probably going to buy two more of these and each give them each one different colors so that they stop fighting over it. Evie's is yellow and Alice's is blue and like that's that. But the reason...
00:21:34
Speaker
I love this is because it feels real to them. It really does. Like the lipstick feels real. Like you're putting it on. It's clear. It's not like, yeah it's not like they're putting on makeup, but, and they have their own little mascara and their own little powder. It is so stinking cute. Um, and the best, if you have like a girly girly,
00:21:58
Speaker
toddler girl who loves to get in your makeup and like do mommy things this is for you sure it is so cute i also have purchased um from smallable their jewelry like oh yeah me too we've also yeah we have a pair of their goggles for the pool that are so cute they're all but jeweled Yeah, and they they have a pair of like um mittens that has like a fake ring on it. it's It's all very, very cute. I agree. It's honestly very Glynnis-coated, my mother-in-law. It's in a good way, honestly. So fun.
00:22:32
Speaker
Well, cute. Okay, so now that the kids have been taken care of, we're taken care of, what are we doing for our zaddies? All right? Okay. Luckily, i just purchased this for Chris. So this was like top of mind. He is very into it. Like if you grew up in a Southern college and your husband was wearing like polos and button down shirts, like, and now they have moved on to now what is like the knit polo, which my husband has. He's yeah very obsessed.
00:23:05
Speaker
He loves like a very nice one, like a very, like a Todd Snyder brand. But I found one From the Thai Bar. It's a place in Chicago. I just happened to like research um knit polos. It was like $65, maybe $70. And it is so nice. It's like a chocolate brown. They have lots of colors.
00:23:27
Speaker
I feel like brown is the color of the season. I don't know. This is really cute. I will be buying this. lovely. And so Chris wore it for our birthday. And um I love it. And it looks, I mean, it it it's somewhat expensive, but it looked like a Todd snele Snyder knit pullover or polo. And it's so cute. And like I said, they have different colors. And um he got so many compliments on it.
00:23:54
Speaker
It's so cute. They also have a deal where get three for $150, which is a good deal. That's great. Honestly. Nice dress shirt. um Wow. I love that. I will be adding that to cart.
00:24:06
Speaker
can't. I'm just going to hire you next year to be like, can you do my shopping for me? Okay. Mine is something that I honestly, ah now that I'm thinking about it, I'm scared that I said this last year. But I actually don't think I did. I think I said the pizza thing last year. Pizza oven.
00:24:24
Speaker
Outdoor pizza oven, I think is what I did last year. Say it. But this year, or this is, I got these for Vincent last year. and they are, hands down, his favorite shoes and the most complimented shoes that...
00:24:40
Speaker
He has, and it is the Rothy's Driver Loafer. Okay. i look They are so nice. They are like neutral enough to wear with like all different things. You can dress them up. You can dress them down.
00:24:56
Speaker
Like Vincent has these and every time he wears them, people compliment him. They're like, damn, those are nice. The also best thing about them machine washable. Oh, you go throw them in the wash and they come out perfectly. It's crazy. Yeah. So these are, and Vincent still to this day says like, that's one of the best gifts gifts I ever got him was those loafers. So.
00:25:20
Speaker
ah Okay. That's nice. yeah Our guys love a loafer. Once again, an SEC man shoe. That's now a dad for sure. Yep.
00:25:31
Speaker
The loafer. 100%. 100%. All right. for home. all right so for home I don't know about you, but I've been getting like a lot of swirl about Ralph Lauren Christmas. Yeah. Which is really just classic Christmas. Traditional Christmas. Literally. It's so funny. We've gone backwards, everyone. they're they're calling It's like Home Alone Christmas, you know? It's literally like classic Christmas, but... I put in here silver frames because nothing screams like more Ralph Lauren, more curated than a silver frame, especially if you took family like pictures this fall, like which is top of mind for me. Like I want to put these all over the house. I want to put them like in a collection together where it looks like very styled. So I put they're from Target, but obviously you can get silver frames anywhere.
00:26:21
Speaker
Amazon. You can literally buy them from Ralph Lauren, but they're 104. freaking $50. So I just picked something from Target. I'm usually like a girl, a gold girly. Like I have, I like a gold accent, but we're going to do some silver. We're going to throw in some different metals here and go for it.
00:26:40
Speaker
Well, mixed metals are very in right now. So that tracks love simple, beautiful love. Okay. Mine is a hostess-y thing.
00:26:55
Speaker
i talked about in the in the last episode or the last couple episodes how I hosted for the first time in this new house and how I was like, where the fuck is all of my hosting things? And i keep seeing these these cluster um platters all over the place. And I am someone who like loves to put out like little snacky, clustery things.
00:27:18
Speaker
And so, to be honest, there's so many different like versions of this of these like cluster bowls out there but I am linking one from Birch Lane it is a it's it's like it's giving oysters it's like well that's what it is yeah it yeah it definitely is it just doesn't say that which is kind of odd to me I feel like it should say oyster dish but whatever is it is it's so cute abstract ceramic divided serving dish. But you could like, you could put oysters in there, but you could also put like nuts and olives and like little snacky things or a dip in the middle and do different, you know, so many different things. Such a great like hostess thing. Beautiful to leave out on your table if you're like having people over for a happy hour. yeah So.
00:28:06
Speaker
I love that. That looks very coastal, which is. Yeah, which I live in Florida. That's the other thing is like, It's nice to have like Florida-y coastal things, you know?
00:28:17
Speaker
I have them here just because we're obsessed. so Oh, yeah, yeah. So cute I could see that being like a huge summer dish being used.
00:28:28
Speaker
Love that. All right. Last but not least for friends and family. I went makeup, which, hello, not really my thing, but I decided if I received this as a gift as a friend or a family member, like, it's kind of like what we were talking about, like soft luxury. It's giving chic. I'm pulling this out of my purse. It's that rose, road, not rose, road pocket blush in specifically because ah i'm obsessed with the name Piggy.
00:29:00
Speaker
Piggy, how cute is that? Like I would die to get that. Do I wear a ton of blush? No. Do I want it? 1,000%. I'd be popping that bad boy out at work like, look at what I got.
00:29:14
Speaker
Look at what I got. It is so cute. it's so They are so good. I have two shades of this. I have Freckle and Sleepy Girl. So i already own two. They are so good, so blendable.
00:29:28
Speaker
pretty sure I talk about this in my makeup class, honestly, these blushes. Yeah. Well, they're so good. Anything like micro to me, ah want it. I want the miniature version.
00:29:40
Speaker
Honestly, and Piggy has been on my list for a while. Like I want that one. It's like, it just I mean, literally the color you're wearing. It's like probably that color pink. oh Yeah. It sold me. I was like, that is the cutest name ever.
00:29:54
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So good. though Honestly, every single thing I've tried from Road Slay is. Hailey Bieber knows what she's doing. so She's gorgeous. I know. I know. These celebrities actually are like slaying because the outset's so good. Mm-hmm. I don't have anything road, but assuming from what you've said.
00:30:15
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So good. Okay. Mine is something that I bought for myself back in September and it has become one of my most used items and it is a classic. Okay. This is not, I'm not reinventing the wheel here, but I think this is just such a great classic gift, especially because I feel like the like,
00:30:38
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kind of going with the Ralph Lauren, even
Unique and Thoughtful Gift Suggestions
00:30:40
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though we're not talking, I'm not talking about Christmas here, but like the like Ralph Lauren college, like, like collegiate old money aesthetic is like so in right now. Yeah. My pick is a classic L.L. Bean boat and tote bag with an initial on it.
00:30:58
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Everyone's like doing such cheeky little things on their boat and tow. Yes. So I am not really a monogram girly. Like I don't, I'm not a huge like monogram, but I own this in green with just a D on it.
00:31:12
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And I like that because then Vinny can use it. I can use it like whoever. yeah But, Specifically, I want to say to get the long strap version. So it is the perfect like over the shoulder hang by your side length. Good to know.
00:31:30
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The regular boat and tow, like the straps are kind of short to where you kind of have to carry it, you know, in your hand. But if you get the long, longer strap, it's perfect over the shoulder and like just sits so perfectly.
00:31:43
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it fits so many things. It's perfect for like – And obviously like beach and that sort of stuff. But honestly, it's so great for every day to just like when you have toddlers, we, I don't know about you, but we don't bring a diaper bag anymore. We don't have a diaper bag, but I, i bring a tote and I throw things in the tote and like we go, but also I think about the holidays and how you're like bringing gifts and stuff. This is cute. I don't know. I would be thrilled to get this as a gift. And I think a lot of the people, my family would as well. We almost got Brittany that for like a baby gift because, you know, she did a surprise gender and she has her daughter Poppy. But if she had a boy, it was going to start with a T. I'm not going to say it because she might eventually have a boy. And we came up with...
00:32:34
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T's and P's for like thanks and please. Like we were going to do something kind of cheeky. Oh, cute. Or is it P's and T's, I guess. Whatever it is, I flip-flopped them. I think it's P's and T's. Yeah, P's and T's. Yeah, isn't that funny?
00:32:47
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That is so cute. No, people are putting really cute stuff on there. In fact... a I got a wedding, ah like we went to a wedding where we had to stay overnight and they had gifts in the rooms, you know, for out of town guests.
00:33:00
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And it's a mini boat and tow. I'm literally looking at it. I should grab it, but I'm too lazy. And it's green and it says days like this on the side. It's so cute. oh van mor and it's I use it all the time and it was literally a gift from a wedding. Like that means a lot to me just because I like that song.
00:33:18
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oh Wow. So cute. Wow. Okay. So cute. Well, yeah, this was like a maybe a fast and furious episode, but it was really fun. Like I kind of got jazzed up being able to talk through some of this.
00:33:32
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I definitely am going to keep exploring for ideas. I know, obviously, this is a very tight list. Like we did one item per category, but we're going to build out our shop my with some other ideas and like things we have on the brain. ah Honestly,
00:33:52
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I'm going to put this out there. I am on the hunt for a new robe. if anyone has a recommendation, i just, the thing with me is I hate when it's too fluffy or heavy. I need light. I have the robe for you.
00:34:06
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Okay. Send me a link. Okay. Perfect.
Holiday Giveaways Announcement
00:34:11
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And I will say, if you're listening to this, Candice and I are kind of toying with the idea of a giveaway. So be on the lookout for that ah Christmas giveaway from an item from this list that we talked through. It'll be on our Instagram. All you got to do is follow. Follow us on Instagram.
00:34:29
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And um we'll be posting that when this episode goes live. Amazing. This is so fun. Happy holidays, everyone. Yeah. And happy shopping.
00:34:40
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Love ya. Love ya. Bye. Bye. Thank you so much for being a part of our mom group chat. New episodes drop every Tuesday. And don't forget, the group chat is blowing up on our Instagram page. So make sure you're following along over there. All right. Gotta go. My toddler just put something in her mouth.