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Here at the AT Labs, we got really excited about cooking up a new project for 2009 in which we we're going to send a garden gnome around the world from reader to reader (ie. Amelie) and have them send us back photographs of the gnome on their sofa (or some part of their home) and track the whole thing on sendmehome.com. But then we thought that there might be something better to send around than a gnome. Any suggestions? And, if not, what's your best small, light, mailable gnome resource?
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Here are two stories about "giving" that we're collecting from readers and publishing this week. To find out more or submit your own 



It’s one thing to sort through your stuff to decide what to keep and what to purge. But it’s another thing altogether to send the purged stuff on to its final destination, be it donating, reselling, or giving to friends. (Trashing should be your last resort, only if something is damaged or dirty.)




