Bakers Dozen

Christmas stocking stuffers

  1. Candy cane
  2. Lottery tickets
  3. Coal
  4. Oranges (a tradition from a century ago when an orange was a treat)
  5. Shiny new pennies, as many as the years of the child’s age
  6. Colored Sharpies.
  7. Brazil nuts
  8. Dollar-store toys
  9. Chocolate coins or mini bars
  10. A severed foot (the perfect stocking stuffer, per Mitch Hedberg)
  11. Condoms
  12. Small stuffed animal
  13. Figs

New: Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes
  3. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn

(It’s hard to think of a novel I’ve read that does NOT have somebody taking a vacation. Not many.)

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes
  3. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
  4. National Lampoon’s Vacation (road trip to Wally World)

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes
  3. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
  4. National Lampoon’s Vacation (road trip to Wally World)
  5. Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes
  3. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
  4. National Lampoon’s Vacation (road trip to Wally World)
  5. Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
  6. Burned by Carol Higgins Clark

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes
  3. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
  4. National Lampoon’s Vacation (road trip to Wally World)
  5. Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
  6. Burned by Carol Higgins Clark
  7. Fletch by Gregory McDonald (Irwin Fletcher takes a long vacation in Rio with the money of the millionaire who’d hired Fletch to kill him)

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes
  3. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
  4. National Lampoon’s Vacation (road trip to Wally World)
  5. Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
  6. Burned by Carol Higgins Clark
  7. Fletch by Gregory McDonald (Irwin Fletcher takes a long vacation in Rio with the money of the millionaire who’d hired Fletch to kill him)
  8. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona)

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes
  3. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
  4. National Lampoon’s Vacation (road trip to Wally World)
  5. Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
  6. Burned by Carol Higgins Clark
  7. Fletch by Gregory McDonald (Irwin Fletcher takes a long vacation in Rio with the money of the millionaire who’d hired Fletch to kill him)
  8. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona)
  9. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot solves a murder while at a seaside vacation resort in Devonshire)

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes
  3. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
  4. National Lampoon’s Vacation (road trip to Wally World)
  5. Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
  6. Burned by Carol Higgins Clark
  7. Fletch by Gregory McDonald (Irwin Fletcher takes a long vacation in Rio with the money of the millionaire who’d hired Fletch to kill him)
  8. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona)
  9. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot solves a murder while at a seaside vacation resort in Devonshire)
  10. Daisy Miller, by Henry James

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes
  3. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
  4. National Lampoon’s Vacation (road trip to Wally World)
  5. Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
  6. Burned by Carol Higgins Clark
  7. Fletch by Gregory McDonald (Irwin Fletcher takes a long vacation in Rio with the money of the millionaire who’d hired Fletch to kill him)
  8. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona)
  9. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot solves a murder while at a seaside vacation resort in Devonshire)
  10. Daisy Miller, by Henry James
  11. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes
  3. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
  4. National Lampoon’s Vacation (road trip to Wally World)
  5. Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
  6. Burned by Carol Higgins Clark
  7. Fletch by Gregory McDonald (Irwin Fletcher takes a long vacation in Rio with the money of the millionaire who’d hired Fletch to kill him)
  8. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona)
  9. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot solves a murder while at a seaside vacation resort in Devonshire)
  10. Daisy Miller, by Henry James
  11. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
  12. Roman Holiday

Fiction in which someone goes on a vacation (doesn’t need to be the entire story)

  1. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (Summer at a lighthouse)
  2. Vacation '58 by John Hughes
  3. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
  4. National Lampoon’s Vacation (road trip to Wally World)
  5. Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
  6. Burned by Carol Higgins Clark
  7. Fletch by Gregory McDonald (Irwin Fletcher takes a long vacation in Rio with the money of the millionaire who’d hired Fletch to kill him)
  8. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona)
  9. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot solves a murder while at a seaside vacation resort in Devonshire)
  10. Daisy Miller, by Henry James
  11. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
  12. Roman Holiday
  13. The Devil’s Foot by A. Conan Doyle

Holmes and Watson on a beach holiday in Cornwall; of course there’s a mystery that Holmes must solve: The Adventure of the Devil's Foot - Wikipedia

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Something you’d like to receive this holiday season

  1. Peace and quiet

Something you’d like to receive this holiday season

  1. Peace and quiet
  2. Better health for me and my sick kitty

Something you’d like to receive this holiday season

  1. Peace and quiet
  2. Better health for me and my sick kitty
  3. More fruitcake and egg nog, please

Something you’d like to receive this holiday season

  1. Peace and quiet
  2. Better health for me and my sick kitty
  3. More fruitcake and egg nog, please
  4. The 1976 Schwinn Cruiser Santa promised instead of that P.O.S. Huffy he tried to pass off on me. I’m growing impatient!

Something you’d like to receive this holiday season

  1. Peace and quiet
  2. Better health for me and my sick kitty
  3. More fruitcake and egg nog, please
  4. The 1976 Schwinn Cruiser Santa promised instead of that P.O.S. Huffy he tried to pass off on me. I’m growing impatient!
  5. Less freezing rain than last year.

Something you’d like to receive this holiday season

  1. Peace and quiet
  2. Better health for me and my sick kitty
  3. More fruitcake and egg nog, please
  4. The 1976 Schwinn Cruiser Santa promised instead of that P.O.S. Huffy he tried to pass off on me. I’m growing impatient!
  5. Less freezing rain than last year.
  6. A different President-elect

Something you’d like to receive this holiday season

  1. Peace and quiet
  2. Better health for me and my sick kitty
  3. More fruitcake and egg nog, please
  4. The 1976 Schwinn Cruiser Santa promised instead of that P.O.S. Huffy he tried to pass off on me. I’m growing impatient!
  5. Less freezing rain than last year.
  6. A different President-elect
  7. And a different VP-elect

Something you’d like to receive this holiday season

  1. Peace and quiet
  2. Better health for me and my sick kitty
  3. More fruitcake and egg nog, please
  4. The 1976 Schwinn Cruiser Santa promised instead of that P.O.S. Huffy he tried to pass off on me. I’m growing impatient!
  5. Less freezing rain than last year.
  6. A different President-elect
  7. And a different VP-elect
  8. A white Christmas