Surprises? So overrated. Don’t waste your money, time, and energy wowing girls on your list with stuff they’ll never use — and will likely return. Instead, find out what she really wants with DailyCandy’s guide to asking the right questions.

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You used to have such colorful playthings.

Legos were among your earliest friends; the Rubik’s Cube proved a worthy adversary. In recent years, however, such hands-on fun has fallen by the wayside.

Renew the thrill in a very grown-up way with Glide ...

Aren’t the holidays relaxing?

Leisurely hours spent shopping, a party or two with your best pals, and afternoons lounging with a cup of cocoa by the light-strewn tree.

Ha.

More like mad dashes through hordes of rabid screaming shoppers and ...

What if the afterlife were just two huge nightclubs?

Some of us would be heading for that high-class club in the sky to be serenaded eternally by Billie Holiday and Kurt Cobain while sipping non-hangover-inducing mojitos. The rest would be sent ...

Sure, strewing fabric about your home seems like an easy way to brighten things up. But there are hidden dangers.

Some may recall the Great Batik Blaze that tore through dorm rooms across the University Belt. Or the sad tale ...

Love letter, draft 1:
Your lips are like roses; your eyes, stars. You taste like cheese, the kind you put on nachos. I want to devour you.

Draft 2:
I love you like sunshine, draft beer, and breasts. Big breasts.

Before the advent of newfangled institutions like the department store and the mega-retailer, there was the five-and-dime, a perfect neighborhood pit stop for household sundries.

Those are pretty hard to come by these days.

But we found one in everyone’s ...