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Christmas Gifts Under $60 for People You Actually Like
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items Christmas gifts under sixty dollars for people you actually like, not the colleague whose name you learned in November. Four sections, sorted by who you are shopping for: the cheap end that still looks chosen, couples and families, the person who own...
Sections
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Christmas Gifts Under $25 That Look Chosen
Gifts for Couples and Families
For the Person Who Has Everything
Cozy Gifts for Homebodies
Christmas Gifts Under $25 That Look Chosen
The cheap end, where a gift has to be clever rather than expensive. Four things under twenty-five dollars that look chosen instead of grabbed at a checkout, and three of them get used or eaten rather than stored. This is the section for the office dr...
A quilted cotton mitt, twelve and a half inches long, printed on both sides with a cook juggling pans. It is machine washable and thick enough to carry a hot tray. The joke is on the outside, so it stays out on the hook.
Blue Q Oven Mitt, Man w/a Pan
Fifty cracker shells that arrive flat, so you fold them and choose what goes inside. Nineteen dollars, with ribbons in two patterns and no snaps included. They hold about three chocolates each, and the folding is the evening's work.
Xinnun 50 Packs DIY Xmas Party Crackers
Eleven sachets of cinnamon, clove, star anise and dried orange, one per bottle of wine or cider, plus a steel spoon. Twenty dollars, which buys whole spices rather than dust. Check the count before promising it for a party of twelve.
11 Pack Mulling Spices for Cider & Gluhwein
A four-inch acrylic ornament cut with a family name and the year. Six dollars, and it is the cheapest thing here that gets kept. Personalisation plus postage is the bottleneck, so order in the first week of December.
iDIY 4 Inch Personalized Snowman Ornament
Gifts for Couples and Families
Gifts that work for two people or a table of them, between nineteen and thirty dollars. Four things that play, build or become a tradition, and none needs a screen on a day that is already full of them. The puzzle and the box are made to order, so or...
Fifteen minutes, two teams, and one word that has to cover four cards without touching the assassin. Twenty-five dollars at the shop page, and it plays eight. It needs a flat surface, so it is an after-dinner game rather than a sofa one.
Codenames Board Game (2nd Edition)
Two players, fifteen minutes, and a board of polyomino tiles that has to be budgeted rather than raced. Twenty-nine dollars, and the rules fit on one card. Strictly two players, so it is the wrong gift for a family of five.
Patchwork Two-Player Board Game
A fifteen by twenty inch jigsaw cut from one of their photos, five hundred pieces. Twenty-seven dollars, and the doing is the gift rather than the picture. The print is only as good as the file, so send the original rather than a screenshot.
Custom Photo Puzzle 500 Pieces 15x20
A wooden box with a name on the lid, sized for pyjamas, a book and whatever else the house does on the twenty-fourth. Twenty dollars, and it becomes the tradition rather than the present. It only works in a household that already marks Christmas Eve.
Personalized Wooden Christmas Eve Box - Santa Gift
For the Person Who Has Everything
For the person who buys what they want in October and tells you not to bother. Four things between seventeen and thirty dollars that get used up rather than stored: coffee, oil and vinegar, bitters and a print of a night sky. Three are consumable and...
Three six-ounce bags of whole-bean organic coffee, a light, a medium and a dark, from a roaster that funds shelters. Thirty dollars, and it is gone by February, and that is the point. It needs a grinder, so check before buying for a house with a pod ...
Grounds & Hounds Organic Coffee Variety Pack
Two six-ounce glass bottles in a wire caddy, with stainless pour spouts already fitted. Twenty-five dollars, and they replace the plastic bottles that live beside the hob. Clear glass means sunlight, so keep them in a cupboard if the kitchen faces so...
6 Oz Oil & Vinegar Bottle Set with Caddy
Four half-ounce bottles: lavender, cardamom, black lemon and Orleans, enough to make supermarket gin taste deliberate. Thirty dollars, and a bottle lasts months at two dashes a drink. Half an ounce is small, so buy it for someone who already has the ...
Scrappy's Bitters New Classics Gift Set 4ct
The sky over one date and one place, printed unframed in the size you choose, with four fonts. Seventeen dollars, and the fact you supply is the whole gift. It arrives unframed, so budget for a frame or give it as a print.
Custom Star Map - Personalized Wall Art
Cozy Gifts for Homebodies
Gifts for the person whose ideal December involves a sofa and no plans. Four things between eighteen and thirty-seven dollars that get used from Boxing Day to March, which is the test a throw has to pass. Everything here is machine washable or has no...
Six hundred and eight pieces of white and pink orchid on stems you bend into shape. Thirty dollars at the shop page, fifteen inches tall, and it survives a flat with no light. The hour of building is the gift in the week between Christmas and New Yea...
LEGO Botanicals Orchid 10311
Fifteen pounds of glass beads across sixty by eighty inches, stitched into channels so the weight does not pool at the foot. Thirty dollars today against a forty-dollar list price. It is one piece rather than a duvet plus cover, so nothing needs wres...
Weighted Blanket 15 lbs Queen Size 60x80 Soft Cooling
A dimmable lamp with a timer that melts a jar candle from above, with two bulbs included. Eighteen dollars, and it works in a flat where a flame is a bad idea. It is for jar candles rather than pillars, so check what is on the shelf.
GODONLIF Candle Warmer Lamp with Timer
An electric throw, fifty by sixty inches, ribbed faux fur with adjustable heat and an automatic shut-off. Thirty-seven dollars, so it heats the person rather than the room. It is machine washable, which is more than most heated throws manage.
GOTCOZY Heated Plush Electric Blanket 50x60 Violet