Looking a gift horse in the mouth may turn a party into an etiquette lesson, whereas looking a gift basilisk in the eyes will turn the birthday girl to stone. Give curse-free gifts and goods with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of gifts at Perry's Family General Store in Franklin.

Perry's Family General Store sells an eclectic assortment of general-store products, from natural skincare remedies to gardening seeds and herbal supplements. All-purpose grapefruit, lavender and oats, and peppermint tea soaps ($5.95 each) are 100% natural, phosphate-free, not tested on animals, and gentle enough to use for shaving, on babies, or for baby's first shave. Pucker up with some orange-vanilla lip balm ($4 each), an ideal follow-up after treating lips to the edible brown-sugar lip scrub ($16). Customers can also stock up on seeds ($1.99) and plant a summer garden packed with chamomile, bantam corn, burpless cucumbers, beefsteak tomatoes, and a variety of other well-mannered veggies. Use the fruits and vegetables of your labor in recipes derived from the Kitchen Garden Cookbook, a collection of more than 200 recipes and cooking tips ($22.95).