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Last Minute Gifts for Five Impossible People in your Life

Congratulations, you avoided being this person at Walmart on Black Friday. But now it’s the 20th…and you’re still empty handed with zero inspiration. These people in your life you’re suppose to know so well you suddenly forget what they do in their free time, where they work, how you even know them and then start to question if you actually like them enough to get them a gift. It’s OK if this applies to your family members; most people have been there too. So in lieu of over-dosing on one thing this month (we’ll jump start that again in 2017 in a big way), we’re going to quickly pinpoint five people in your life who you 100% struggle with every, single year and head to STORY in Chelsea to check them off your list. STORY is a retail concept that takes the point of view of a magazine, changes like a gallery and sells things like a store. Every four to eight weeks, STORY completely reinvents itself – from the design to the merchandise – with the goal of bringing to light a new theme, trend or issue. Fittingly, this month’s theme is “Home for the Holidays”, so let’s try to make this process as painless as possible.

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 For your father, who may like his John Deer lawnmower more than his offspring:
Dad’s love gadgets. Dad’s also love cell phone accessories. Dad’s destroy wallets.  Put all that in a Vitamix and your miracle green juice for a Dad gift should present itself as a nifty leather wallet that has an external iPhone battery in the base to give your Pops one full charge, allowing him to download every niche life convenience app his heart desires.
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For your mother, who will probably kill you if you get her another bathrobe:
A snowy white cashmere hat, or really anything soft, warm and NOT frumpy/she can only wear in the secrecy of her home. Mom’s are rockstars and should dress as such; if you are fashion illiterate, hire a female friend, ask a female sales associate or go to somewhere like Anthropologie and give a short blip about your mother to a personal stylist and they’ll hook you up.
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For your boss, who you are friendly with but not yet close enough to drunkenly Facetime:
If you’re skirting the camp of straight up buying liquor for them, there’s nothing that spreads the happiness that is the holiday season like cheeky desk accessories that say “I literally hate everyone just as much as you do.”
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For your uncle who is a survivalist and has no emotions:
For the man who knows more about how to survival a nuclear apocalypse than what has happened in your life since your conception: make his life in the backwoods a bit more cozy. Coffee is the entire bottom row of the food pyramid (from what I remember at least) so make sure he starts his morning right before he has to start fighting Zombies.
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For your platonic friend you don’t want to send the wrong message:
Oh don’t worry – girls love food more than they will ever love you. Guys do too, but that’s a primal given.
Rule #1 of life: Breakfast will never cheat on you or ghost on you.
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STORY is located at 144 10th Avenue at 19th Street and is open 9am-9pm M-F, 8:30am-7:30pm Saturday and closed on Sunday.
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!!! Fun Facts about Holiday Shopping !!!
1. Men *generally* procrastinate
2. Men are *typically* not creative
3. Dads *always* love socks