TIME's Guide To Shopping

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HAUSER CHOCOLATES Chocolate-covered nuts, truffles and ice-cream toppings, plus a corporate-gifts section where you will find suggestions on what to buy the staff hauserchocolatier.com

A HOMEMADE COOKIE Sugar cookies, snickerdoodles and 15 other varieties baked by the batch in a Texas kitchen and shipped in decorative tins. Also available: three kinds of pound cake and mesquite-smoked German sausage ahomemadecookie.com

THE LOBSTER NET Maine lobsters caught, packed and shipped within 24 hours. Also available: Dungeness crab, shrimp, salmon, steamers, chowder and side dishes thelobsternet.com

THE ORIGINAL NUT FACTORY Gift baskets, boxes, trays and samplers of all sorts of nuts, sweets and dried fruits nutfactory.com

SEND.COM This delivery site offers Dom Perignon, single-malt Scotch, beluga caviar, Virginia ham, Vermont syrup and cigars send.com

SMOKEDSALMON.COM Salmon for all tastes: alder-wood-smoked salmon, smoked rainbow trout, smoked lox and smoked-salmon pinwheels smokedsalmon.com

TAVOLO This gourmet site, browsable by category or brand, offers cheeses, produce, meats and desserts, plus cookware, bakeware, tableware, small appliances and barbecue and picnic gear tavolo.com

WINE.COM An extensive wine selection, neatly organized and searchable by category, price or origin. Order a case, get a 10% discount; order half a case and get 5% off wine.com

WINEBID.COM This auction site offers rare and fine wine; bids open Thursday nights and close Sunday nights winebid.com

Home Decor
Buy curtains and cushions online as well as in those bricks-and-mortar stores

BED, BATH AND BEYOND A huge collection of bedding and just about everything else you might need to outfit a home tastefully but affordably. College shop for students bedbathandbeyond.com

BLINDSGALORE.COM A huge selection of shades and blinds. The "Blinds Finder" tool helps you pick a style and figure out complicated measurements blindsgalore.com

BROOKSTONE.COM Get a backrest massager for the college student in your family. Also available are housewares, tools, health-and-fitness devices and more brookstone.com

BUYBUZZ.COM Ethnic and internationally flavored home decorations, including African masks and Chinese porcelain buybuzz.com

CHIASSO The motto "Form, Function, Fun" means everything from sleek CD cases to salt and pepper shakers with modern, lighthearted designs chiasso.com

CRATE & BARREL Modern home furnishings and accessories, with a gift registry and a reminder service that alerts you to upcoming birthdays and anniversaries crateandbarrel.com

CUCINA LATELLA Beautiful glass jars from Australia, filled with colorful ornamental fruits and vegetables cucinalatella.com

DOMESTICATIONS A home store that offers monogramming on many of its products, including bedding, throw rugs and planters domestications.com

EBAY The gold standard for auctions boasts more than 4 million items for sale. Set up a My Ebay page to track all your buying and selling in one place ebay.com

EZIBA.COM Handcrafted products from around the world; a wide selection of purely decorative objects plus a furniture section eziba.com

FRONTERA.COM Large inventory of indoor and outdoor furniture; quick searches by room, price and style make for easy browsing frontera.com

GOODHOME.COM A traditional furniture store with a custom upholstery shop where you can choose a sofa or chair frame, then add a fabric pattern goodhome.com

GUILD.COM This upscale site for original artwork includes handcrafted furniture; go to the Commission Center to have artwork created to your specifications guild.com

ICOLLECTOR.COM Find auctions on fine art and order catalogs for upcoming sales from auction houses icollector.com

INTHECOMPANYOFDOGS.COM High-end, upscale furniture and accessories for dogs inthecompanyofdogs.com

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM STORE Reproductions from the museum shop: statuettes, posters and prints, as well as books and gifts metmuseum.org

ROOTS HOME & GARDEN Handmade fountains, Tiffany-style lamps, Oriental rugs and handpainted tableware rootshomeandgarden.com