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1 month ago | 
coolmomeats.com | Christina Refford
With Earth Day coming up in April and spring cleaning season here, it’s a great time to reflect on ways we can create a more eco-friendly home and a more sustainable kitchen. If your family spends as much time as my family of five does thinking about, preparing, and eating food, creating a more sustainable kitchen with some simple changes is a terrific way to lessen our impact on the planet.
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1 month ago | 
coolmomeats.com | Christina Refford
Though we know a lot of homes will be enjoying corned beef for their St Patrick’s Day dinner this weekend, there are plenty of people (like me!) who would rather find some corned beef alternatives to serve on the 17th. If you’re like me, I’ve got you covered!My fellow corned beef avoiders: Presenting 12 corned beef alternatives for your St. Patrick’s Day dinner table that range from wildly creative to incredibly classic.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
coolmompicks.com | Christina Refford
We love looking for easy last-minute DIY holiday gifts each year that show our friends we care, but not all of us are gifted crafters who can knit a pair of mittens while watching a Christmas movie, or eke out the time for a complex 40-step DIY tutorial while trying to you know, have a life. So, we’ve searched for some easy least-minute DIY holiday gifts all from crafts that we know we actually can make. Are you still shopping? Yeah, we are too.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
coolmompicks.com | Christina Refford
It can be hard to find gifts that truly make an impression, which is why we love sharing cool personalized gifts so much: They let the receiver know that the gift was picked specifically for them. And like our guide to unique personalized gifts for kids, this guide covers personalized gifts for lots of different people on your holiday list, from spouses to grandparents, adult siblings to your close friends.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
coolmomeats.com | Christina Refford
One look at the Thanksgiving planning calendars, and it brings up a whole lot of stress. I was supposed to order a turkey *when*? Whether Thanksgiving falls late on the calendar, or early like this year, it doesn’t matter — it’s still never enough time for me to plan Thanksgiving dinner.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
coolmompicks.com | Christina Refford
We couldn’t put together a gift guide this year without including the best Taylor Swift gifts for Taylor fans, right? Whether or not you’re a Swiftie yourself, you probably know someone who is–like my niece who was at the rainiest rain show that ever rain showed, ever, ever, ever (IYKYK). Or like Liz’s daughter who vetted all of our picks here…and even added a few of her own.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
coolmompicks.com | Christina Refford
Hygge gifts may be a new holiday gift category for a lot of us who don’t have families from Denmark, but it’s something we could all use more of these days. While we can’t shop our way to inner peace right now, we have found a few holiday gifts to help us chill from the stress of the world, and find a little calm in the chaos. Hygge is the Danish concept of coziness — a lifestyle all about finding comfort, pleasure, and warmth in simple things that soothe us. It’s hot tea and warm slippers.
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May 14, 2024 | 
coolmompicks.com | Christina Refford
One of the reasons it’s hard to find cool Father’s Day gifts (beyond our site, of course) is that they’re limited. If you judged dads by the Father’s Day cards in the racks, it would seem like all dads do is golf, drink beer, mow the lawn, and hog the TV remote. The dads in our lives are so much more interesting and nuanced, which is why we love turning to Uncommon Goods for cool gifts for cool dads.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
coolmompicks.com | Christina Refford
It can be hard putting together cool Easter baskets for teens and tweens. While our youngest kids may be content with a stuffed rabbit and a basket full of candy-filled plastic eggs, I’m excited to treat my three kids with some cool Easter gifts for teens that they’ll actually be psyched to see in their Easter basket.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
coolmompicks.com | Christina Refford
We invite you to celebrate Black History Month with our picks for the top books for kids that showcase the diverse and inspiring stories of African American heroes and leaders. Black history has never been a topic we discuss just one month out of the year; but it’s been a tradition for us to honor Black History Month for kids each February in part by sharing some of our favorite new Black History books for kids that bring Black history to life.
