You don't think the world needs another shopping guide? I'm sorry, but you're wrong. We need a Louisville shopping guide so we can find kick ass holiday gifts for loved ones, business associates, neighbors, teachers and all the other people on our lists. We need a Louisville shopping guide so we can find good gifts from great shops that add to our incredible local flavor every day. We need a Louisville shopping guide so we can impress the heck out of our gift recipients with one more interesting, unique gift and one less standard issue item picked up at the mall. We need a Louisville shopping guide so you can know what they actually sell at that one store on Bardstown Road, you know the one with the big bear out front.

So enjoy Consuming Louisville's First Annual Holiday Shopping Guide. It features some specific items from local artists and companies, a few specific shops you should be shopping at, and an item or two that is Louisville related. Everything is unique. Everything is interesting. And not a single item in the Consuming Louisville Holiday Shopping Guide requires you to go to a mall.