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The Conversation: Wedding bells and wedding gifts
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Marketplace Weekend Staff
May 27, 2016
What kinds of gifts have you requested of others?
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The logistics of returns
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Sally Herships
Dec 28, 2015
Mail carriers brace for the flood of holiday returns.
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Holidays put the bow on the gift-wrapping industry
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Kristofor Husted
Dec 23, 2015
In the U.S., gift wrap accounts for $3.2 billion a year in retail sales.
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Tell us about your best gift ever
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Marketplace Staff
Dec 15, 2014
We're bringing back a classic holiday feature, and we want to hear from you.
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Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite on her best gift ever
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Marketplace Staff
Dec 15, 2014
The "Cathy" creator talks about two gifts that fit both sides of her personality.
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Jeff Bezos on the best gift he's ever received
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Nancy Farghalli
Dec 8, 2014
Just in time for the holidays, we're reviving our series "Best Gift Ever."
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Cheap produce and $60,000 bottles of cognac
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Sep 10, 2014
Gifting legitimate alcohol is serious business in Chinese culture.
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Carmen tackles the Lightning Round
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Carmen Wong Ulrich
Dec 6, 2013
Gifting stocks, retirement account tax implications and 529s. Carmen tackles them all in rapid-fire for this month's lightning round.
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Paula Poundstone on the value of Mother's Day
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Barbara Bogaev
May 10, 2013
According to The National Retail Federation, consumers will spend $20.7 billion on Mother's Day gifts this year, but Paula Poundstone, comedian and mom of three, thinks everyone should save their money.
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Commentary
Why I don't buy presents for kids
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Marketplace Contributor
Dec 21, 2012
Commentator Logan Sachon loves her 2-year-old nephew dearly. She shows it by never, ever buying him presents.
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