
Many of you swear that
basting the turkey makes it more succulent and now I'm wondering if you plan to
brine the turkey as well.
I consider it to be a
must-have for this time of year, so I'm brining my bird, but I'm curious to know your feelings on this preparation method.
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San Francisco is a foodie city with more than enough restaurants to satisfy any craving. The last few times I've made reservations at places that usually require them, I've looked around thinking that I didn't need to bother calling ahead. The one exception was when I dined at the Italian restaurant
that changed its pricing scheme to offer cheaper portions of the same quality dishes.

Marc Ecko is really establishing himself as the mainstream go-to for Star Wars apparel, after having introduced the
Boba Fett Hoodie and
Storm Trooper Hoodie.
And he's not content to stop there. There's a whole SW shop up — with one of my favorite new pieces being this
Darth Vader T-Shirt with a tattoo-inspired design ($34).

Rub a dub dub, when is it time to graduate from the tub? Almost
three quarters of you have babies that love the bath, but there comes a time when children start eyeing the shower. We're not quite there yet, though my 2-year-old son definitely wonders why his big sister sometimes washes off standing up.
Last night in New York, Rihanna was busy making outfit changes for charity. She started the night in a red, one-shouldered cocktail frock for the lighting of the UNICEF Snowflake/Gucci Tattoo Heart Collection for UNICEF launch and then she went to the dinner for the new Gucci line in a long, body-hugging mauve floor-length number. Both dresses have a gold hardware accent piece, gather on one side of the body and are made from a lovely, drapey fabric.

How quickly we forget! We claim that this holiday season won't be as costly as the last, but how can we be sure? If last year's holidays are a blur of parties, cookies, and mistletoe, dig up your credit card or bank statements from the end of last year to get an idea of how much you spent last year on new party clothes, gifts, and the cost of hosting gatherings.

This year, consumers witnessed a lot of
cost increases in food, so it's only natural that the price of Thanksgiving dinner has crept up, too. Agriculture experts estimate that
Thanksgiving costs have
risen by an average of six percent this year, and the
American Farm Bureau, which conducts a Thanksgiving yearly survey, cited
$44.61 as the average cost of a Thanksgiving for 10 in 2007.
I'm not surprised; in fact, I'm certain that I spend at least twice as much on my Thanksgiving dinner.

Some of us
still keep vinyl around, and then some of us just romanticize vinyl. If that's you, then forget your dream of buying a turntable and just hook up a
Vintage Vinyl CD Packaging Kit ($17)!
These are great for making mixes and giving CDs or DVDs as gifts for the holidays and then "wrapping" them as records, or for your own personal stash of compact discs.

Does a swig of the bottle help the medicine go down? With the onset of cold and flu season,
sixty-five percent of you will give your children medicine and trying to get your darling to take his full dose can be a battle. The creators of the
Medibottle ($15) have designed a bottle with a syringe attachment that tricks the tot into swallowing meds.

I remember my excuses for not having or doing my homework to have been pretty lame, but as for tech excuses, like my computer "ate" the file — well, let's just say I'm sure I made them do it too. A study found that these days, the new
homework excuses are tech-related, such as blaming hackers for getting into your laptop to snag just your 10-page paper on 12th century witchcraft.
So has one of your gadgets ever eaten or ruined your work, somehow?