I follow a lot of fashion people and media people and fashion media people because they always post about things I want to buy, and I sure do like buying. Somehow all these editorial folks agreed that the holiday season began this week and all of the gift guides would necessarily also hit this week—I guess a late Thanksgiving begot an early Black Friday or something? Did y’all decide this at the annual magazine meeting? Whatever, I love it. I love swiping my credit card, specifically for my own benefit.

I also see a lot of the PR types saying “ah sorry about all the gift guides, it’s too many gift guides!”—it’s not. Never too many gift guides, keep them coming, let the consumerism wash over me, I want to feel want.

BUT, from my living room in France, I can’t buy any of the stuff in these guides. They all redirect to American sites and either won’t open, OR the things I covet require international shipping and I’m not even about to do that. The first few years I lived in France, this la…