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It’s the new year<\/a> and we’re recharged and ready to start anew! The lights are down, the holiday decorations are put away, and the tinsel is in the trash. As we looked back at last year and some of the work that we did here at Mom.com going through products for our annual gift guides<\/a>, there were products that we found that didn’t quite fit into any of our gifting groups, but that we loved regardless. So we wanted to share them below. Some of them are useful, some made our lives so much easier during those back-breaking gift wrapping nights (thank you, Slice tools<\/a>!), while others are just little indulgences that you can get and keep all to yourself. And others of course, we picked with some of our favorite family members in mind, because giving is good no matter the season.<\/p>

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It’s the new year and we’re recharged and ready to start anew! The lights are down, the holiday decorations are put away, and the tinsel is in the trash. 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