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  1. celebrity shopping
    My Family Made Me Buy ItEleven dynastic lineages — from the Spielbergs to the Wahlbergs — share items purchased en famille.
  2. pets
    21 Giant Stuffed Giraffes and Other Animals (From Lions to Tigers to Bears)None will cost you nearly as much as an actual pet.
  3. what i can’t live without
    What Curtis Sliwa Can’t Live Without“I’ve been wearing black T-shirts long before Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs picked up the habit of dressing in black.”
  4. what i can’t live without
    What Kathryn Garcia Can’t Live Without“You can cry your eyes out in this and it will not smear.”
  5. celebrity shopping
    What Eric Adams Can’t Live Without“After I saw President Obama wearing a similar pair, I decided I needed these to make myself look cool — Obama cool.”
  6. what i can’t live without
    What Fernando Mateo Can’t Live Without“I rub this on my body every day, all the way down to my toes and feet. I have very soft feet. Very nice feet.”
  7. what i can’t live without
    What Scott Stringer Can’t Live Without“A lot of my younger staffers wear them, too. They’re cross-generational in that way.”
  8. men
    The Best Gift for New Dads Is an Old (But Good As New) Polaroid CameraIt makes the square images that inspired the square layout of a certain photo-sharing app that (likely) inspired the refurbishing of this line.
  9. weird things we love
    To Whoever Needs to Hear It: These Small Drawstring Trash Bags Are a Revelation“As the saying (now) goes, one man’s trash (bag) is another man’s treasure.”
  10. bye for now
    A Final Ciao for Morandi’s World-Class Maître d’Roberto made Morandi feel like home, until COVID made it impossible to stay in New York.
  13. gifts
    My Husband’s Bicycle Looks More Like Sculpture Thanks to This Clever StandCombining vertical storage with the ease of a floor stand, it displays his bike as the latest objet in our home full of actual artworks.
  14. black friday 2020
    If You Buy One Thing Today, Make It Some ‘Eternally Cool’ Clarks BootsNot often will retailers mark down the brand’s neutral, goes-with-practically-everything styles like this pair in brown leather.
  15. i slept here
    Sandy Liang’s Teenage Bedroom: Zarin Fabrics, German Sconces, and Guy Fieri“It felt very dreamy and princess-y.”
  16. gifts
    I Can’t Stop Buying Steiff Stuffed Animals (on Amazon) for BabiesThe luxury stuffed toys can go for three or four digits (especially if vintage), but Amazon sells many that are $35 or less.
  17. i slept here
    Musician Henry Hall’s Childhood Bedroom: Ocean Views, Beanie Babies, and GhostsThe 28-year-old son of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall remembers the room he grew up in.
  18. prime day 2020
    The Sega Genesis Mini I’ve Been Playing All Quarantine Is on Sale for $50A modest price for the hours of easy entertainment I can guarantee it will provide.
  19. hobby and craft
    Parker Posey’s Guide to Getting Into NeedlepointThe longtime needlepointer on everything a beginner needs to know, including the eyeglass-case kits that quickly made Cameron Diaz capable.
  20. this thing’s incredible
    Comforting and Addictive, This Sega Genesis Mini Is Now My Go-to Stress RelieverIt’s easy entertainment that keeps my mind from worrying about the outside world — and how much longer it’ll be before we can return to it.
  21. weird things we love
    This Plug-in Phone Headset Makes Me Feel Like a CEO Working From HomePlugged into the headphone jack of my MacBook Air, it makes days of Zooming from home feel a little more like days making calls from the office.
  22. organization
    I Used This Easy-to-Install Shelving to Create a Walk-in Closet in My ApartmentWhile it is a walk-in closet we also sleep in, the space in no way feels like a closet-sized bedroom or a bedroom that’s actually a closet.
  25. celebrity shopping
    What Artist Dan Colen Can’t Live Without“To look down at your plate and have an experience, not just see some white thing in front of you, is a beautiful thing.”
  26. organization
    The 11 Things a Japanese Monk Uses to Tidy“In my experience, when I use good stuff like this to clean, it becomes more meditative and ritualistic.”
  27. style
    The Best Thing I Bought in the Last Decade Is a Barbour Bedale Waxed JacketLooks aside, the jacket is a worthy investment because it is just a very good and durable and versatile coat.
  28. gifts
    The Best Gifts for Priests, According to PriestsSpoiler alert: They “really don’t need religious items.”
  29. cyber monday 2019
    If You Buy One Thing Today, Make It These ‘Eternally Cool’ (on Sale) BootsThe “goes-with-practically-everything” oak suede color is not often marked down.
  30. celebrity shopping
    What Pellicano Hotels CEO Marie-Louise Scio Can’t Live Without“Every summer there is the big pair of sunglasses that you see everyone and their mother wearing. Then they vanish. I’m just not into that.”
  31. dining
    These Paper Napkins (I Got at Wegmans) Are Like Tiny Works of ArtThey’re produced with cultural institutions like Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and heritage luxury-décor brands like Scalamandré.
  32. painless shopping
    12 Decorative Stone Fruits You Can Buy on AmazonThese are arguably the best (and most ecofriendly) way to get the fruit-as-décor aesthetic year-round.
  33. weird things we love
    Workdays Are Far Less Stressful With This Soothing Clock in My CubicleFor most of the day it actually doesn’t tell the time, at least not precisely — which is exactly why I’ve grown to love it.
  34. our shopping cart
    The Strategist Haul: What One Editor Bought on His Trip to ChinaIncluding a new-to-him status candle, a comically large (but quite useful) tote bag, and some rubber booties to slip over real shoes when it rains.
  37. prime day 2019
    If You Buy One Thing on Prime Day, Make It This Impossible-to-Kill Peace Lily“It is among the hardiest green things I’ve ever encountered.”
  38. celebrity shopping
    What Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard Can’t Live Without“I use this so much my wife thought I had a relationship with it.”
  39. painless shopping
    23 Tie-dye Things You Can Buy (on Amazon) for Less Than $75Including women’s, men’s, and kids’ clothes, and tie-dyed stuff for the home.
  40. men’s apparel
    Nobody at My Wedding Could Tell That My Dad Got His Tux for $200 on AmazonLooking at us, you really couldn’t tell who spent hours with a tailor (me), and who basically threw his tux on straight off the rack (him).
  41. what i can’t live without
    What Cosme and Atla Chef Daniela Soto-Innes Can’t Live WithoutIncluding her favorite deodorant, toothpaste, and yoga pants.
  42. celebrity shopping
    What Eve Can’t Live WithoutIncluding her favorite CBD oil, deodorant, and perfume.
  43. hobby and craft
    Everything You Need to Grow Weed Indoors, According to ExpertsThe expert-recommended supplies for setting up a grow space, watering and feeding your plant, and harvesting and storing your crop.
  44. Table and chairs in conservatory
    garden
    The Best Fruit Trees You Can (Really) Grow Indoors, According to ExpertsIncluding Meyer lemon, Persian lime, Thai lime, Australian finger lime, Rangpur lime, calamondin, and kumquat trees.
  45. weird things we love
    This Color-Changing Night-light Is the Best (Legal) Mushroom TripIt’s as fun to look at as it is functional.