Gift Guides Suck

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Simon Doonan is not doing a gift guide this year, because everybody hates them with an undying passion. "People HATE gift guides," he says. "I was, in point of fact, unable to find one single person who liked them, is prompted to shop by them, looked at them or even lined the cat's litter box with them." Admittedly, it's the second day of December and we're getting a bit overloaded with them. Do you like or use gift guides? [The Observer, via Jezebel]