TIME's Guide To Shopping

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UNCOMMON GOODS Eclectic but affordable home accents; anything over $100 is considered a "splurge" uncommongoods.com

Kitchen
If you're in the market for culinary aids, here's a guide to where the wares are

APPLIANCES.COM All sorts of countertop appliances, from waffle irons and juicemakers to food processors and vacuum packagers appliances.com

COOKING.COM This comprehensive kitchen and appliance site has a gift center that sorts products by cuisines and types of activities cooking.com

CRATE & BARREL The home store's kitchen line includes teakettles, coffeemakers, stainless-steel cooking sets, nonstick baking wares and stylish flatware crateandbarrel.com

DEAN & DELUCA The New York gourmet food institution carries a full line of flatware and kitchen utensils deandeluca.com

DISNEY STORE Here you can find Mickey Mouse toasters, cookie jars, muffin pans and even 16-piece dinnerware sets disneystore.com

THE DOUGH BOARD Most of this site's wares are made of wood, including cutting boards, pot racks and paper-towel holders doughboard.com

FRIDGEDOOR.COM An improbably large selection of refrigerator magnets fridgedoor.com

THE FRUGAL COOK Culinary equipment up for bid on this auction site. Visit if you're tired of paying retail prices for copper bundt-cake molds and the like thefrugalcook.com

HOME AND PET.COM Order knickknacks like tea-bag holders, coffee mugs and fridge magnets with the image of your favorite breed of dog homeandpet.com

JADE MOUNTAIN The store that specializes in energy-conserving products has a kitchen-appliance section that includes blenders and gas ranges jademountain.com

KITCHEN101.COM This comprehensive store also offers links to its 101 favorite sites for recipes and food tips kitchen101.com

KITCHEN & HOME This store's kitchenware has a country-living flavor. Find barbecue and grilling products in its Seasonal section kitchenandhome.com

MARSHALL FIELD'S Fine crystal pieces, beer glasses and barware. Also a small selection of cookware and kitchen accessories marshallfields.com

QUICKSPICE The Asian food site specializes in rice cookers, dumpling steamers, sushi rollers and more quickspice.com

QVC A to Z shopping for a huge variety of special-function home-kitchen appliances. Choose from electric deep fryers to electric knives, blenders to breadmakers qvc.com

ROSS-SIMONS China, crystal and sterling and stainless-steel flatware available from dozens of manufacturers ross-simons.com

SUNDANCE CATALOG COMPANY The catalog's kitchen section features flatware, flour bins, cocktail coasters and more, all in a rustic style sundancecatalog.com

SWEET CELEBRATIONS Gourmet cookware, with special emphasis on those tools needed for making cakes, candy and other sweet treats sweetc.com

WILLIAMS-SONOMA Search for gifts either by interest or by price at this cook's haven williams-sonoma.com

Sports
Whether it's a fishing rod or a five iron, the Web's the place to find your game

ALTREC.COM Camping, hiking and other outdoor gear; visit the advice page for online sales help altrec.com

BASEBALLEXPRESS.COM A huge inventory of baseball gear; enter a trivia contest to win a gift certificate baseballexpress.com

BIKESHOP.COM Bikes for all budgets, with a "Shop Assistant" to help you choose bikeshop.com

BOATERSWORLD.COM Boating, fishing and water-sports gear, not to mention water-resistant stereo equipment boatersworld.com

BOWLINGSHIRT.COM Custom bowling shirts and bowling-related retro items like snack trays and bobble-head dolls bowlingshirt.com

CHAMPS SPORTS The store chain's website, with everything for nearly every sport; shop by item, sport or brand champssports.com

CHIPSHOT.COM Golf supplies. Give the "Gift Finder" a budget and skill level, and it will list appropriate items chipshot.com

EASTERN MOUNTAIN SPORTS Everything for campers, climbers and bikers; links to climbing schools and travel planners emsonline.com

FOGDOG.COM Sporting-goods superstore with "concept shops" organized by sport or manufacturer fogdog.com