Here is the first in my new series of instructional holiday shopping posts.

Don’t buy this ($19.99):

Buy this ($5.98):

The first one is a ridiculously overpriced silly marketing ploy and the second one is a vintage 1969 recipe book with lovely original pictures and quotations from the A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh series, and charming old-fashioned easy to make recipes, featuring lots of honey. My favourite is the honey cookies recipe. You can tell this because my own 30 year old copy has quite a lot of honey cookie recipe still actually stuck to that page.