THE PROBLEM: You just got a holiday card from someone you forgot.
THE SOLUTION: E-mail. More specifically, a customized message card, from geogreeting.com, written in letters plucked from satellite images of buildings across the world. Your friends aren’t dumb; they’ll know you messed up. But these messages are clever enough to help you save face.
THE PROBLEM: Holiday guilt from getting everything on your list and knowing others won’t.
THE SOLUTION: Giving. More specifically, to someone alone and faraway at Christmas, like a soldier. We suggest logging on to anysoldier.com, a non-profit (and inspiring) site that makes it easy to send a care package to someone dispatched overseas even if you don’t know them. Now, that’s the spirit.
THE PROBLEM: You forgot to buy the new Bette Midler Christmas album, and you’re stuck with Bing again.
THE SOLUTION: Cable TV. Specifically Comcast On Demand, which is offering digital subscribers free karaoke versions of favorite seasonal songs.
Forget the fireplace; in the digital age families get their holly-jollies by gathering round the big-screen plasma TV.
THE PROBLEM: Holiday stress from failing to make everyone else happy.
THE SOLUTION: Chocolate. More specifically, Bloomsberry & Co.’s Christmas Survival Chocolate with dark doses targeted for holiday travel, last-minute shopping, day-of celebration and day-after recovery. Get it for $5 at Equipement de Vin on Larimer Square, but you better hurry.
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