EASTER
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Ceramic pieces such as a bunny "bowlhead," perfect for a candy dish ($3.99), and a lamb-and-egg salt-and-pepper set ($2.99), help set the Easter table. Find them at Price Busters, along with a Hawaiian print bunny ($1.99).
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Easter is the holiday of cuteness. Bunnies, chickies, duckies and lambies rules -- and, to a lesser degree, kitties, puppies and froggies. Unlike those other festive seasons ruled by the harsh tones of black and orange, red and green, or red, white and blue, Easter is a time of soft, pleasant pastels, well suited to the cutesy ideal.
In case you weren't watching the calendar, Sunday is Easter, and it's time to fill those baskets. We combed stores for the newest, cutest stuff out there. Our other prerequisite: Everything had to be cheap-cheep. Nothing here will cost you more than $6.
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While picking up your Easter ham, consider the wide variety of plush items available at the supermarket. This bobblehead duck ($3.99) is at Safeway, along with other bobbleheaded Easter critters.
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Wind this chicken up and it will lay bubble-gum eggs as it walks along ($1.99) at Price Busters, but also available at other discount stores.
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Plush baskets in animal shapes can be found at many stores; these were among the cutest: A frog basket ($5) from Wal-Mart and a small puppy basket ($2.50) at Daiei. Plastic sports eggs that can be filled with candy can also be found in many discount stores. Kmart has a mixed pack of eight ($2.99).
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Peeps are more than marshmallow candies, they've moved into nonedible forms such as this plush pack ($5.99) at Kmart and plastic containers ($2.69) at Longs. Kmart also has Peeps pillows and small toys.
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For those who find dying eggs to be too much of a messy chore, Paas offers Color Snaps, cotton swabs filled with quick-drying dye that you simply paint onto your eggs. This product proved so commonsense that it is pretty much sold out at Wal-Mart stores, but we include it here because if you should find one, you should snap it up. It sells for about $1.
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Complete the Easter basket with finger puppets ($2.19) and an Easter missile ($2.99), both at Longs.
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