December 4, 2008 | 3:30 pm

Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Her Top Picks for Holiday Gifts

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In this week’s installment of her newsletter Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow muses on the the spirit of the season and shares her favorite gift-giving secrets. “What is holiday spirit? For me, it means helping to create that atmosphere where loved ones feel full of cheer, like some happy secret is about to be revealed,” she says. “Holiday spirit is a feeling of warmth, of togetherness, of connectedness. We get that by giving. We get it by watching cheeks flush with color when something opened and in the hands conveys a message: I know you, I get you, I see you.” Her top gift choices to show she cares include the Flip Ultra Camcorder, ($149) — which is also one of PEOPLE.com’s choices in our Star Favorites: The Chicest Gifts. “This thing is genius,” she says. (We agree!) Gwyneth also loves Chris Bolton Jewelry Tag necklaces ($150) imprinted with a loved one’s name. “I personalized mine and I wear it everyday,” she writes. And while the star has been known for sticking to a macrobiotic diet, she lets us in on one of her favorite indulgences: Bridgewater Chocolates ($110), which are “My absolute favorite chocolate in the entire world. I send these out to special people every year.” Want more of her holiday favorites? Click here to read her full list. Then get the rest of your holiday shopping done in style now with PEOPLE.com’s exclusive gift guides, including Star Favorites, Best Gifts Under $50 and top 25 Holiday Deals and Discounts.

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Michele

Seriously, does she really give out the book “Modern Manners” (4th one down on her complete list????

jennifer

I agree, how nice that Gwenyth can spend $110.00 on chocolates..,how nice it must be to have so much $you can spend it on expensive chocolates….

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Megan – list what she does for charity! Her biggest recipient is her over-inflated ego.

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JNelson – we are not bitter, just realistic and critical and unwilling to buy into self-absorbed advice from an over-rated twit who has nothing better to do with her time than develop useless lists. If you choose to buy this line of advice from a bobblehead, go ahead. But don’t ask us to follow blindly as you do.

soccermom

well i am glad she has the money to spend on ridicoulous gifts like over 100 dollars for choclate-unlike celebs your average person is being affected by the recession and do not have this kind of money-people magazine needs to focus on real people for once

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Alicia – just as he offers her opinion, so too are we. So get used to free speech. Gwyneth is not a Queen or the Pope, this is a democracy where people speak out when they see something stupid like advice from a lemon-lipped twit!

Cranky

lemon lipped twit! Love it!

ssckatt

I am going to give chocolates for Christmas myself: storebrand chocolate chips for homemade dozens of cookies, cost: about $10; Snickers bars for stocking stuffers, about $5; homemade chocolate fudge, about $15. Then with the remaining $80 of the $110, I will try to get as many gifts as I can squeeze out of it for my children. Get it Gwynnie

Angela

Quit harping on her. If she wants to spend $110 on chocolates, let her. She’s helping the economy.

Nicole

What an idiot – she knows who this stuff goes to, not a bunch of people who can give someone $110 chocolates. Way to fail at being relevant, Fishsticks!

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