Ask colleagues, family and friends to skip gifts for your birthday, anniversary or holidays but instead make donations to your cause.
Large numbers of people are taking that many in a month or half a day, if you happen to be having a birthday party for your 7-year-old.
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Perfect for your silver anniversary or golden birthday, this escape proves you don't have to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth to enjoy a radiant retreat.
"Sometimes it's finding the perfect gift for your wife's 40th birthday, " said Jenene Ronick, the founder of Luxury Attache, a lifestyle management company that employs concierges at about 30 Manhattan residential buildings.
Why not buy your child a book for Christmas or birthday?
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If Facebook is a public square (and it is, by the way), your birthday is the day when the square stops for a moment to sing.
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Hebrew lessons typically start several years, not several months, before your 13th birthday, and since I had no facility for language in the first place, it was only a couple of weeks before my teachers deemed me hopeless and, instead of teaching me Hebrew, had me performing maintenance chores, such as cleaning the school's blackboards.
You'd be fostered out into the country for a while, but then by the time it was your fifth or sixth birthday, you were brought up in this institution.
And on this special day, your birthday, I offer myself at the request of Sir Peter Jackson for you to command as you see fit.
Tips on the site include, for example, an idea for organizing your grocery list with OneNote on your phone, a pointer on how to pick the right-sized TV for your living room, and ways to use Office applications to help plan a child's birthday party.
If you're still desperate to get that Facebook acquaintance something for their birthday or some kind of anniversary, the Social Network has instituted a new way to take your money give.
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For instance, it asks you to slide a button along the bottom of a birthday cake to determine your age, or to rate your pain on a scale of happy green to angry red.
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