Idea lists
Ideas for…
Stuck on what to get someone? Each list points at something you can make for them yourself.
- Ideas forBachelorette and bachelor party merch ideasThe guest of honor's face on everything, and nobody stuck collecting money for 14 shirts.
- Ideas forBest friend birthday gift ideasYou know more embarrassing things about them than anyone. A birthday is the one day you're allowed to print them.
- Ideas forClosing gifts for new homeownersFor agents, lenders and the parents who helped with the down payment: a gift that arrives after the keys and is about the house they just bought.
- Ideas forFamily game night ideas you make yourselfStore-bought games don't have Uncle Dave in them. These do, which is more fun for everyone except Uncle Dave.
- Ideas forFunny t-shirt ideas about someone you knowThe funniest shirts aren't jokes anyone could wear. They're about one person, and the people who know them get it.
- Ideas forGift ideas for a group chatThe best gift for a group chat is the group chat. Specifically, the night it went off the rails.
- Ideas forGifts for cat peopleCat people are hard to shop for and easy to please, as long as the gift has their cat on it.
- Ideas forGifts for dads who say they don't want anythingHe doesn't want anything. He will, however, wear a hat that says he's a member of the Thermostat Yacht Club until it falls apart.
- Ideas forGifts for dog peopleDog people already have the mug with somebody else's golden retriever on it. What they want is their own dog in a crown, repeated across a blanket.
- Ideas forGifts for hikers and mountain peopleMountain people can name every peak on their horizon. Give them that horizon.
- Ideas forGifts for long-distance friendsThey can't drop by. So send them a version of you to find, a view of where you are, or the night it all started.
- Ideas forGifts for the coworker who has everythingThey have the good pens and the nice water bottle. They don't have a merit badge for replying to an email from 2023.
- Ideas forGifts for your roommateYou know exactly what they did with the last of the oat milk. Now you can have it framed.
- Ideas forHousewarming gift ideasYou're going to the party anyway. Bring something about the move itself: the boxes, the first-night pizza, the text that said they got it.
- Ideas forRetirement gift ideas that aren't a gold watchBands get a farewell tour when they quit. So should the person who ran the budget meeting for 22 years.
- Ideas forUgly sweater party ideasEveryone shows up in a store-bought reindeer. You show up with your dog's face knitted across your chest, and the dog wears the matching one.
- Ideas forWhite elephant gift ideas people actually stealA white elephant gift has two jobs: get a laugh when it's opened, and start a fight when it's stolen.
