From the New York Times, you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

Hey, everyone, it's The Wirecutter Show.

I'm Cairo Blackwell.

I'm Christine Cyr Clissette.

And I'm Rosie Garron.

And we work at Wirecutter, the product recommendation site from the New York Times.

Each week, we bring you expert advice from our newsroom of 140 journalists who review

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This episode of The Wirecutter Show is called Finding Affordable Gifts.

Kyra, Christine, we're here.

It's December.

You believe it?

We made it here.

We made it through Thanksgiving.

Did you end up buying any holiday gifts over Black Friday?

No.

I usually boycott the sales at Black Friday unless I find something really perfect and I didn't find anything this year.

You didn't find anything even sort of quotidian? Like, did I get another 15 pound bags?

I'm just thinking, gosh, what a cat litter? Cat litter. No, I did not buy any cat litter this Black

Friday. Personally, I find this time of year to be a little stressful because there are so many people

I need to get gifts for. I got my kids. I got my wife. I get my family, smaller gifts for

coworkers and friends, co-workers. Do you all have a lot of people that you need to buy gifts

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