10 Things We're Doing Besides Putting a Bow on It

erica’s things

• Picking out a Canadian tuxedo to wear to the Denim: Fashion’s Frontier exhibit at The Museum at FIT.

• Racing through all the episodes of the podcast Open Account with SuChin Pak (yah, that SuChin Pak!). It’s all about honest conversations re: money, and you should start with “Thank You Cake” and “Who Among Them Are Happy?”

• Reading this profile of Jane and Michael Stern...and reminiscing about a five-week-long, pre-internet-on-ya-phone, cross-country trip with their authoritarian Roadfood as a guide.

• Scheming how to borrow steal my husband’s new robe—a cozy-as-they-come collab between Ace Hotel and Wings + Horns.

• Heeding the advice of Italian nonnas and switching to Sclafani canned tomatoes, which are as good for sauce as for a Gwyneth-y tuna bowl.

claire’s things

• Having all my birthdays past and future ruined by the realization that they’ll never live up to this. (Thanksgiving is suddenly in danger, too.)

• Finding myself addicted to a new first-thing-in-the-morning phone habit: The NYTimes app mini crossword—two minutes or less to wake up your brain, totally inbox-anxiety-free.

• Doing my best to mix up the holiday sugarfest by sending out fresh and dried fruit from Frog Hollow Farm instead of cookies—the best produce on the internet, IMHO.

• Letting Google be my guide to my next credit card—this amazingly handy tool lets you compare all the options based on whatever your priorities are: cash back, points, APR, etc.

• Ticking off the most vain of my bucket list items at Beam Laser Spa. Bye razors, bye waxers, I’ll miss you never.