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I hope you’re not all gifted out just yet—because today, I’m kicking off the first round of answers to some of Downtime readers’ trickiest gifting questions. A big thanks to everyone who sent one in! In today’s post, I’ve got extremely specific gift ideas for…
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Your Toughest Gifting Questions, AnsweredOur annual tradition returns. You asked, I tried my best to answer. Let’s get into it.
A $40 or under white elephant gift that could work across ages.A few of you sent in some form of this question. White elephant gifts are notorious for being funny and considered “prank gifts,” but let’s be honest that that stuff usually ends up in the trash. And there’s nothing we hate more than useless presents that add to waste! My approach to this category is stuff that is covetable. Stuff that whoever is participating in the white elephant gift exchange will want to steal. And because this is for a wide variety of ages, it has to be a gift that’s generally crowdpleasing, somewhat practical, and because I’m not entirely humorless and this is a white elephant gift exchange after all—offer some form of delight or surprise wow factor. Some practical-leaning items:
If you want to lean into a more humorous tone, here are some options that might actually get used or consumed:
Gifts for the classic “hard-to-shop-for” dad.
Sigh. Ah yes, the dad. This category comes up year after year. I have not met one person who finds it easy to gift their dad. Here are nine ideas for this reader’s dad, and all those other well-meaning dads who actually make gifting feel a bit tortuous (lol): The rest of this post is exclusively for paid subscribers. Become a Downtime subscriber now for 20% off an annual subscription...Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Downtime to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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