Another neat thing on the web that I didn't know was there

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Thanks to redbird, I now know about TheThingsIWant.com, which is a web-based shopping list/wish list page. It basically just lets you easily set up a web list of things you want to buy and/or have other people buy for you and have other people take things off it when they've bought them. (Honor system only, for public lists anyway--one can't stop a vandal from marking your entire list as bought.) This approach has the tremendous advantage that I can point, for instance, my non-game-loving family towards the exact games I want and a shop which I know stocks them.

At the request of my extended family, I've put up a holiday shopping list. It includes a lot of things I've deliberately avoided buying for myself because I knew the holidays were approaching.