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Today, according to trusty Wikipedia, is St. Knut’s Day in Sweden and Finland, which is named for Canute IV, who ruled Denmark from 1080 to 1086 and decreed that Christmas should be celebrated for 20 days. This means that the celebration ends on the 13th of January, when all the little kids gather and take [...]

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(if you’re into that), we’re honored that you’re reading this when you could be tearing into presents or drinking an eggnog eye-opener. At any rate, thanks for being here. We’ll take your presence as a sign that you’re not terribly excited by your Christmas offerings (unless, again, X-mas just isn’t your [...]

Today is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, and we’re contemplating the various creative forms in which we might consume our daily dose of peanut butter and jelly. As we scour the Interweb, there are clearly innumerable PBnJ-delivery devices, and since we feel like being inclusive on this most sacred of days, we’ve collected them [...]

We here at Listicles are very much in denial of recessionomics. We don’t buy the idea that we won’t be able to buy another yacht every year, or get each of our kids a slick hybrid car for their middle school, high school and college graduations, or that there’s something fundamentally unsustainable about blowing $1,830 [...]

As household wine consumption increases exponentially in the holiday lead-up, what to do with the left-over materials (aside from recycling the bottles of course)? Whereas the fireplace has long-been the final destination for wine corks, that leaves those without chimneys in a lurch, not to mention the growing movement towards corkless wine packing. Fear not, [...]

Historical fact: during the Great Depression the only Christmas presents you’d get were sepia-toned clothing and cuts in the soup line. But now that we’re officially in another recession right before the non-denominational holiday season, let’s turn to the country’s ever-dwindling pool of journalists for on-the-cheap gift guides. Video game consoles and chocolate orange [...]