I don't even need to tell you that the holidays are a crazy time of year, and although there are many pressures put on us by life as we get down to time's socially-constructed wire at the bottom of every year, there is perhaps no greater stress for me than gift-giving.
Now, let me preface this by saying I love gift-giving. Even before I got my first high school job as a cashier at the local grocery store, I had a genuine hankering for saving up all my pennies to buy my family a desktop marble bowling game at the Scholastic Book Fair: