In an age when everyone has everything, it can be exceedingly difficult to know what to get people as gifts. When a holiday or birthday comes along (and most of them insist on coming along once every single year!), coming up with new ideas for gifts that are interesting, meaningful, and most importantly, wanted is not only a nuisance but, at times, a real challenge. How many of us have spent hours wandering around a novelty gifts store wondering whether our significant other’s younger brother would like the curse word pens or the rude jokes toilet paper?
It has been said by experts that gifts should either be entirely useful or totally absurd, and this is hard to disagree with. With that in mind, here are a few ideas for the best things you can gift your friends, loved ones, and acquaintances in 2022.
Brand New Tech
When it comes to buying a gift that will be both liked and, crucially, used, you can never go wrong with a new piece of technology like a phone or a computer. For example, Lenovo streaming laptops are reasonably priced and sure to impress anyone who likes to watch films or tv shows (and who doesn’t like to watch films or tv shows?
What’s more, their streaming capacity makes it easy to spend hours on great sites like YouTube. This gift is especially good for young adolescents in your life who may not already have a computer of their own; you’ll never be forgotten if you’re the person who gifted them the power of the Internet!
Stylish, Ridiculous Bookends
One thing that almost everyone has in their home is books. Whether the person you’re trying to buy a gift for is an avid reader of fiction, they occasionally peruse a science fiction opus, or whether they have a massive collection of do-it-yourself manuals and travel guides, they will most certainly have a few books lying about the place.
That’s where a stylish or perhaps hilarious set of bookends comes in! This gift is both interesting and practical and is not something people often buy for themselves. Go high-end with a pair of imposing marble bricks that they can perch handsomely atop their mantlepiece, or else be totally rude and absurd and pick something like two halves of a dog or something crass that’s guaranteed to get a chuckle.
Socks
Socks are, perhaps, the best gift you can get anyone on any occasion. We all wear socks most of the year round (even in warm climates, it is considered polite to put socks on your feet when wearing formal shoes or trainers), so they get plenty of wear and tear. This means that everyone is always in need of new ones!
Again, this is a gift with which you can play around. If the person likes quality clothing and items, get them a high-end pair of cashmere dress socks or perhaps thick alpaca hiking socks for someone who has taken to trekking. If they are of a sillier sort, get colorful or cartoonish socks that will liven up their every outfit!
