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Don't You Dare Show Up Empty-Handed: Thanksgiving Hostess Gifts Under $25
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items This list contains affiliate links. I may earn a commission from qualifying purchases. Your mama raised you better than to walk into somebody's house on Thanksgiving with your hands swinging. I'm a born-and-raised South Carolina girl and I've been fi...
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The Drinks Table
For the One Who Cooked All Day
Candles & Cozy
Won't Get Regifted
The Drinks Table
Something for the bar cart that isn't another bottle of wine. Little upgrades they'll reach for every time somebody pops a cork.
Nobody finishes the whole bottle on Thanksgiving, bless 'em. These keep the rest fresh for Friday, and stainless steel looks a whole lot nicer than a cork shoved back in sideways.
OXO Steel 2pk Bottle Stopper Set
Every host has that one cheap corkscrew that crumbles the cork into the wine. Trade it out for this one. It's the kind your aunt can work without asking for help.
OXO Softworks Winged Corkscrew
After Thanksgiving, half the host's glasses are chipped or missing. Six stemless ones for about the price of a nice bottle, and nobody knocks them over reaching for the rolls. Works for sweet tea and Dr Pepper too.
Threshold 6-Pack Stemless Wine Glasses
For the One Who Cooked All Day
Whoever hosted has been on their feet since before sunrise. These are kitchen things they'll actually use long after the leftovers are gone.
The squeeze bottle olive oil all the food people are using. It's the fancy kind for drizzling on bread and salads, not the cooking jug, so it feels like a treat instead of a pantry restock.
Graza Drizzle Finishing Olive Oil
Every kitchen towel in that house is about to get used up wiping gravy. Roll these up, tie them with twine, and tuck a wooden spoon in there if you want to show off a little. Under ten dollars and they look like Magnolia, because they are.
Hearth & Hand Striped Kitchen Towels, Set of 2
Two wood boards, one big and one small. They can carve on one and set out cheese and crackers on the other at Christmas. Pretty enough to leave out on the counter, which is the whole point.
Figmint Acacia Wood Cutting Boards, Set of 2
Pair these with the cutting boards and you look like you planned ahead. Fifteen dollars for three little cheese knives, and the host will pull them out every time company comes.
Threshold 3-Piece Wood Handle Cheese Knives
For the friend who cooks with a pinch of this and a pinch of that. Salt on the bottom, pepper on top, and it sits by the stove looking like it came out of a Waco farmhouse. Toss in a box of flaky salt and you're done.
Hearth & Hand Marble Stacking Salt & Pepper Cellar
Candles & Cozy
The easy win. A good candle or a fancy soap works for anybody, and nobody has to find room in the fridge for it.
Thanksgiving is the night everybody starts thinking about Christmas anyway. Two candles, one red and one green, already boxed together so you don't have to wrap a thing. Easy as pie.
Hearth & Hand Balsam & Berry and Fireside Spruce Candle Set
The wooden wick crackles like a little fireplace, and the amber jar with the wood lid looks way pricier than it is. Pick a warm scent on the page and it'll be burning on her kitchen counter all through December.
Threshold Wooden Wick Amber Glass Candle
For the hostess who loves pretty things. That flowery tin is the whole gift, and it's small enough to stick in your purse next to the deviled eggs. When the candle's gone she'll keep the tin for bobby pins.
Rifle Paper Co. Garden Party 3oz Candle
The five-dollar move that still looks thoughtful. Grab a fall scent like Acorn Spice, tie a ribbon around the neck, and set it by her sink. Twenty people are about to wash their hands in that bathroom, so trust me, she'll use it.
Mrs. Meyer's Fall Scent Hand Soap
Won't Get Regifted
The gifts that don't end up in somebody's closet waiting for the next party. Sweet, useful, or the thing everybody's laughing about after pie.
The classic red box your grandmama would approve of. Under ten dollars, and it gets opened and passed around with the pie, which means you get a piece too. That's just good planning.
Merci European Chocolates Gift Box
Here's the trick: bake your pie in this, carry it in, and tell her the dish is hers to keep. Nobody's chasing you down for a pie plate in January, and that ruffle edge makes even a store-bought pie look homemade.
Figmint 9" Stoneware Ruffle Pie Dish
For the family that's going to sit around the table after pie anyway. It's a card game about the weird stuff every family does, which beats arguing about football or politics. Hand it to the host on the way in and you just planned the evening.
Our Family Is So Weird Card Game