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Winter Travel Tips

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A few great articles from the good folks at SkiResorts.com with helpful tips on planning and traveling this ski season. The first installment provides insight on booking early and shipping/packing your gear, clothing and equipment, which we all know can be a huge headache. The second…

Cocoon Grid It: Reinvent your personal organization system

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You know the sinking feeling all too well. You can hear your cell phone ringing from its depths, but can only imagine which nook it’s in now. Chargers and headphones have become a tangled nest of cord. And why can you never find your keys, calculator or hand cream?

The Best Baby Gear for You

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Pick up any parenting magazine these days and you will find endless things to lust after. My mom recently commented that when I was little, baby items were not the big business they are today -- only a fraction of the fun baby gear today existed in the '70s. Maybe…

SavvyPicks: Travel Tricks of the Trade

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Preschool's out, and the beach beckons! Or Grandma's house, or the lake you daydream about during chilly winter afternoons, or wherever it is your favorite mode of transportation might take you. Walk, ride, fly, float. Do whatever you need to do to plot a getaway! And whether you are packing the kiddies up for a trip across the world or just across town, we thought you might appreciate our tried-and-true Savvy tricks for holding the (sometimes infinitesimally) short attention span of your preschooler during the trip.

Large-chested ladies, you don't have to swim laps in fugly suits anymore

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Although the calendar says it is spring, it still feels like winter most days in my city. The wind and cold rain and bundling up in down jackets well into the month of April only makes me long for summer even more. I am dreaming of flip flops and grilling my dinner and swimming. I am really missing…

Super Bowl Sunday gear and gadget guide

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Styling by Heather Tyree and Don Eshenauer

For more game day recipes and tips, check out our complete Super Bowl…

User Post: Just in time for some holiday or another: Presents for active people

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Whoa, are the holidays over? Well, then it's time for the "FF Top 5 Fitness Gifts gift-giving guide to things you could give to the exercisers in your life" aka the FFTFFGGGTTYCGTTEIYL. (If you say that acronym out loud, you will incidentally be making the noise I make when I do experience muscle fatigue and fall down into the fetal position and just rock.)

Yes, this comes direct to you on your computer or other web-surfing gadget, culled from other people's timely holiday gift guides, just days too late to be any good to anyone! But if you must know, it's really just an excuse to riff on some stuff, and anyway, if you see anything you like you could buy it for yourself or return the Baywatch Beach workout tapes you got in exchange for some of these beauties. So here we go! Let's count down backwards, just like we did for last seconds of the New Year.

The Best New Strollers of 2009

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My First Giveaway: Smorgasbord of Stuff

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Looking for a way to avoid bumps on the noggin? Need a cute