The holidays are approaching, and that means it’s time to reunite with loved ones, gather around the fire and… max out your credit card? Think again. The holidays don’t have to take a bite out of your budget. Here are three gift ideas for those hard-to-buy-for types you might have missed on your Black Friday expeditions.
Courtesy of BestBuy.com
The Music Lover:
These cool mock-vinyl blank CDs will warm any music lover’s cold technology-age heart. But proceed with caution: gifting the blank CDs may give your friend free reign to burn you more copies of his metal/new age/experimental breathing band. But if you’re feeling extra generous, throw in a gift card to a local record store like Hoodlums or Stinkweeds, where your music fan can buy tickets for his favorite tiny band’s next big show, argue over taste with the sales clerk or peruse the dollar bins to his or her heart’s desire.
Price: $6.99, Best Buy
Courtesy of Ikea.com
The Little Sister:
She wears Bump-Its, can draw from memory the floor-plan of the nearest mall and has four different “Team Jacob” shirts. You might live on different planets, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find something that will spruce up her mothership. Ikea has a line of decorative wall stickers, suitable for the most extreme tomboys, rock-stars or princesses.
Price: $9.99, Ikea
The Friend/Relative Who Has Everything:
They’ve already got the latest gadgets, power tools, bath oils and a collection of books and CDs stacked to the ceiling. Avoid being the holiday plant-giver this year and subscribe them to a magazine instead. Home-decorating fiends might like Real Simple. Try Wired for the techno-nerds in your life. The great thing about magazines is that there really is one for everyone (but you already know that…). You can give Entertainment to the pop culture know-it-alls, Vogue to the fashion savvy, Paste to the taste-makers, Men’s or Women’s Health to the gym dwellers and Maxim to the, uh, lighter-minded. You can even pat yourself on the back, knowing you are making efforts to save the gasping-for-air magazine journalism industry. (We’ll send you a pat, too.)
Price: $10-25, Amazon.com
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Team Jacob? Gross.
Those wall stickers are adorable, though! Kudos on all that “different planets” / “mothership” wordplay.