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Unsolicited recommendations.

Renaissance review coming this week! But tonight I wanted to do something a lil lighter.

Part of being extraordinarily nosey is that I love to know what people are buying — No Strategist “What Person I Heard of Five Minutes Ago Can’t Live Without” goes unclicked in my home. The following list is something similar: what I could live without but would really rather not, risks I took and liked, products that continuously find their way into my cart. Part of this is self-reflection: My birthday is next week, which means I’m thinking about all the ways I have and haven’t spent the last year wisely. Part of this is because gift guide-ish-things are are either fun to read or fun to judge.

Vivid Pen ($2.95)
I’m a freak about pens. For the last … five … years these are the only pens I use. “Only ones,” like, I buy a dozen twice a year, and keep them in every purse, tucked in every notebook, a pile of them at my workspace. They are appropriately gel (not childishly bright or the ready to be smeare…