SOMETHING AND SOMETHING ELSE
FW secondhand shopping / year-round gifts /the original dupe / a monsoon of angora
Happy Monday. I’m really into morning movies right now. Pig and I take our freezing park walk, then slink into the couch to watch Meet Me In St. Louis in peak daylight while I complete tasks I’ve been dreading. I talk to myself in a transatlantic accent for the rest of the day and work into the dark.
Today’s send is a textured, tactile load of things I find more fun than the popular, pastiched reproductions of the present.
These are personal things I’m hunting for, and as gifts, ways to say, “I pay attention to your media and material fixations”, “I want to make your life easier”, “I love you!!”, it goes on…
Here are the finds. Behind the paywall you’ll find a list of vintage delights and year-round gifts, ideas on how to gift less literally, search terms I used, the angora treasure trove I recently stumbled into, and what’s on my holiday list. For all of these listings, I filtered for “USED” and “BUY IT NOW”. I messed with toggling “US ONLY” on and off, as some sellers cover import fees.
Antique key fobs. Did they buy property this year, move into a new apartment, or get their own studio space? Are you the annoying friend who likes to leave laborious clues in an attempt to extend the moment? Are you surprising someone with a trip? Is your friend obsessed with their lucky number or a specific location? Are you trying to subtly nudge someone away from a new Chateau Marmont t-shirt and expose them to the greater, historied merch ecosystem?
