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Mother's Day Gift Basket Ideas

For the woman who has everything and insists she wants nothing

Mother's Day Gift Basket Ideas
Wendell Webber
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Guilty Pleasures for Mom
Guilty new reads and lascivious classics. Add any book with Fabio on its cover to push the theme further.

Container Idea:
A pink plastic trash can. Flirtatious yet functional — perfect in a boudoir.

Contents Ideas:
  • Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann. The 1960s trash classic about three bombshells who fail to make it big in the Big Apple, begin popping pills, and bottom out.

  • Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. The Queen of the Banned. Nabokov's erotic, rhapsodic story about wanting what you shouldn't.

  • Good in Bed: A Novel, by Jennifer Weiner. A fast-paced modern fairy tale about a woman whose intimate secrets are outed in a magazine by an ex-boyfriend.

  • Pen Pals, by Olivia Goldsmith. From the author of The First Wives Club, a new revenge novel about a Wall Street woman who takes the fall for her boss.
  • Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray. The renowned Victorian social satire about two status-hungry heroines.

  • Note cards. So Mom can write to you about all the dirty details.


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