Some thoughts—gift guides, funny sofa videos

Observer with many auctions first thing Tuesday morning

Collected thoughts regarding gift guides, materialism, funny videos about furniture.

1. I did gift guides the past couple of weeks, for Snake and for Super Health

   Gifts: For design n00bs, chefs, readers, deal hounds, flatware freaks, Italians

   Gifts: For health psychos, onlookers, normal people and all points in between

   rocking in each case with affiliates (Emilia Petrarca’s fine explanation here) to make some cash on posts without paywalling them. I took a harder sell with the items I recommended in these letters than I tend …