Jessica Chow

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63 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard Dec 2024

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How to Give Gifts for the Holiday and Stay on Budget · 11 Dec 2024 podcast

You just sort of know that they're under a little bit more financial pressure.

It's OK to share that as well.

The favorite gift story that I heard was from Micah Meyer's etiquette expert.

She was telling me about how her brother wanted bookends for his house.

And she was like, and he has such great style.

She was just like, these bookends are so expensive.

And then she went to the Brooklyn Flea and saw these duck bookends that definitely needed some fix up.

And they were $30.

And she bought some polish and she polished them herself.

And then he loved it.

And I think it's something nice about the time spent searching for it, the time spent fixing it up, that gives it a story that is unlike anything you could buy off the shelf.

Yeah.

And then you also give them the gift of bragging about it to their friends when the friends come over and they're like, oh, these are such great bookends.

He can be like, oh, yeah, my sister got them and they're vintage and she fixed them up herself and no one else can have it.

And I like the idea of giving a gift that gives them bragging rights.

Almost every expert I talked to said, go vintage, go secondhand, or go for customization or personalization.

And then I have a friend who I call the Martha Stewart of my life because she's so chic.

And she said something that really resonated with me, and that was, look for something that says, I see you, but with my price point and sensibility.

And I think that's really smart because my sister and I actually have very different tastes.

And so for me to be able to find this shoehorn that's vintage, but like has that like high fashion element that she likes, but it's also like weird and quirky, feels very good.

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