Shawn Blanc and the rest of the Tools & Toys team have put together an excellent selection of articles for the Tools & Toys Christmas Catalog. This is holiday shopping at its best:

We at Tools & Toys don’t believe we should buy stuff just for the sake of buying stuff. We believe gift-giving should genuinely benefit the recipient and increase the quality of their life. One way to do this is to give carefully-considered, quality items. We have done our best to make sure everything in our Tools & Toys Gift Guide meets that standard.

I personally own several of the items in the catalog, and I can totally vouch for their quality. Really, really great stuff. Besides, they will be donating 10% of all affiliate earnings for the next two months to St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Operation Christmas Child and App Camp for Girls:

At Tools & Toys we have always donated 10% of our gross income to charity. If you click this link before you do your shopping on Amazon, we’ll be donating 10% of our affiliate earnings for the months of November and December specifically to these three charities.

That’s a really classy move. If you were on the fence about any of those items, think no more.