Gift Suggestions Series: $0-$20 - Topic of the day 12/4/23
With the holiday season coming up, what suggestions do you have for gifts in the $0-$20 range?
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fabric shaver
Socks
Tees
Ribbed tanks
Lots of shoe care stuff: conditioners, polish, brushes, laces
Nice soaps honestly
Probably at the cusp of the $20-30 range, but a nice candle from a local maker (no Visvim Subsection Candle pricing)
Lush and malin + goetz both have bar soap for under $20
Dr. Bronner's
the peppermint smells so good
plus the label is good guest bathroom reading material
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the branding is… questionable but i got Duke Cannon bar soap from family last christmas and i actually love the soaps lol. its in this price range
I just started using Dr bronner in the shower and it's so nice
same
Beans already said socks. Shoe trees are good
aesop is too good though
this is so funny to me for no reason
oh hey y'all I'm just washing my hands in your sink ooo nice soap ok see ya!
Which branding don’t you like?
I also pretend to be interested in their perfumes and then spray karst and move on
Beat me to it. Under $20 nice soaps: https://www.tworavenssoap.com
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Duke Cannon, the brand i mentioned 🙂 it’s kinda tongue in cheek tough guy branding, i think it’s supposed to be a joke … but the bar soap is in this price range and i think it’s pretty good!
Dr Bronners is absolutely unbeatable (unless it fucks with your skin)
use the mint one, walk out into a cold room, feel your skin shrink two sizes
coffee
coffee is a good one, or the means to make coffee. Can pick up a v60 pretty cheap
and a french press even cheaper
put out a gift guide for coffee people that was mildly useful? Under $20?
Thats Canadian right? So about 20 bucks
Cookbooks
(Just get them secondhand)
Clothing steamer is a great one
Are those under $20 usually?
They range quite a bit but the one i have was $20 exactly i think
Fair enough
Clothing steamer is a good gift for sure though
I haven’t tried this but it’s exactly $20 if someone is trying to think of something to get me https://www.dsanddurga.com/products/iso-e-soaper
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Some good pencils. Small stationary items. Old panasonic KP-8X, etc.
Omg I’ve always wanted to smell this one
Mitsubishi pencil packaging is so good
Bought some based purely on that I don’t expect to ever use the pencils
Is that the same Mitsubishi lmao
Yup
Same logo on the left
Oh actually
I looked it up and the logo is the same but unrelated
Family crest so they both use it
Oh this would be an excellent gift for a Mitsubishi owner though
I guess they’re not in the same market so it’s fine that they have the same name and logo??
I assumed it was a Yamaha or hitachi situation
Maybe the space between the name is enough?
I mean I guess if I were car and power and bank Mitsubishi I wouldn’t care about my cousin using the family crest to make artisan pencils
I wish it was the same company
men used to be men, Mitsubishi used to make fighter planes and now they make pencils
We used to eat stew and now we eat pho
need some tripe this week or I might pass away
Similar to coffee but good tea 🍵
Yorkshire tea is really good and affordable
what-cha.com for tea, very nice owner
its the next best thing to Barrys
That's bait and I'm not falling for it
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https://www.newberryknitting.com/ they have some nice gloves!
also rec portable steamers, such a convenient device
small-batch local hot sauces are also cool
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oops Digs already mentioned steamer
Upstate NY! I may have to get a pair
a dress shirt on eBay. 🙂
I used to use their mitten back when I lived in Minnesota and they were great
Custom leather bookmark with your loved ones' initials on them
Custom leather bookmark with MY initials carved into them cuz I’m a gift 🎁
second this, I love my hand written notes from Alistair
Best under $20 gift that literally everyone needs is a 10ft charging cable. Pair this with another under $20 gift of a nice high power charger. I nearly always include these with other gifts or use them for small gifts out. Some may view this as too functional to be a “gift” but it’s always appreciated and useful