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Last year one of our favorite mall visit time-wasters, The Sharper Image, filed for bankruptcy and closed all its stores. We were crushed by the loss of all those useless, cheap-feeling gadgets we loved to play with but never bought (hence the bankruptcy).  Fortunately, we read yesterday in The New York Times of the company’s [...]

Here’s some advice from a child of the eighties: this Christmas season, give your kids the gift of lowered expectations. Because no matter what Monopoly says, we’ll never be homeowners. Not even on Baltic.
10. Let’s Be Safe!: The geniuses at Milton Bradley were sitting in a room in 1986 and were all, “You [...]