Crap Nobody Needs for Xmas

Consider it an "anti-xmas list" of sorts...

• A voice-activated shopping list
  
• A microwavable teddy bear
• A $400 necklace made out of wood (on which to knock for luck-- with diamonds!)
  
• Leather Flower Vases ($295 each)
• Personalized Ice Cream ($49.95 for a 1/2 gallon)

And the list goes on.

If you're feeling generous and considering making donations at this time of year, check in with Will's cousins in Africa. Bebeth and her husband Mark are in South Africa after a stint in the Peace Corps and Courtney and her fiáncé Arthur are volunteering with an NGO in Tanzania.

They ask us to simply think before we wildly unload our crap to be sent off to the motherland, and they have written about it here (Courtney) and here (Mark, who puts it ever so sweetly, Africa doesn't need your junk).