Low Plastic » Gifts http://lowplastic.com Use less plastic. Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:23:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Stocking stuffer: chocolate http://lowplastic.com/2008/12/23/stocking-stuffer-chocolate/ http://lowplastic.com/2008/12/23/stocking-stuffer-chocolate/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:30:41 +0000 Scott Wells http://lowplastic.com/?p=79 There’s something about a big bar of chocolate. Dark, milk, with nuts or fruit or without. Cheap standbys or rare specialties. (Cadbury’s, made in the United States under license by Hershey, is a good middle-of-the-road choice.) And very often there’s nothing between you and it than foil and paper. Can’t say that about most candy canes or truffles.

Really? Need I say more?

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These brushes were sold loose, which it why I mention it here. The only other shoe brush I recall buying — somewhat rougher made than the one pictured here — I got for my father when I was visiting the West Bank, also loose.

Not much good that does you, unless you live in southeastern Pennsylvania or Bethlehem (as in “O Little Town” not the former steel center), right? Well, a few days ago, I noticed in my neighborhood market, a cardboard-packed shoe brush, under the Kiwi brand, almost identical to the one above. So they may be more widely available for sale, certainly at a shoe repair shop.

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