The Twelve Wish Lists of Christmas
Some people run marathons, some people like hitting PBs in the gym, I like competitive present buying. I like to see tears of joy, amazement and true wonderment when people open their gift and this is the best time of year for it. However if you haven’t got a clue and genuinely think it is acceptable to give a 20 something year old girl a bath set from Boots that contains rubber ducks and still has the three for two sticker on, read on, I'm here to help! I’ve compiled a few lists (12, because it’s a Christmassy number!) of gift ideas for everyone you can imagine. Let’s start small with stocking fillers!
1. Godiva Pearls. Perfect little drops of chocolate luxury! Also, if you live in my house chocolate coins and some Guilyan are required!
2. These utterly perfect CB2 Gold Playing Cards. Everyone needs at least one set of cards per house and these gold ones are to die for! ( As seen on The Glitter Guide)
3. An adult colouring book and some pencils. Now, don’t for one second believe the hype that they make you more mindful or at peace, because there’s nothing that can bring out my OCD quicker than accidentally colouring outside of the lines for 1cm ergo ruining an entire two page design. Or, not having quite the right hue of orange to really offset that sunset scene and then feeling the whole picture looks like a wet weekend in Rhyl. However, I can freely admit to whiling away two hours at a time without once looking at my phone or iPad, so great for those who need some time to disconnect over Christmas. This Harry Potter one is quite clearly the dream.
4. Bobbi Brown Caviar Lip and Eye palette which has everything to take your eyes from day to night with a lip gloss to boot. At £26.50 it’s a fricking steal!
5. The White Company cashmere socks. Whoever you buy these for won’t take them off for their entire festive break and will be eternally thankful. Probably not something you’d warrant spending £35 for yourself so definitely an appreciated gift!
6. Personalised key ring from Bombay Duck. There’s nothing worse than getting a present off someone that’s clearly been picked up at random or worse, re gifted. Last year my company gave us all adorable bracelets with our initials on and the effort that had gone in to collating hundreds of artists initials made the gift even more touching. If in doubt, get something initialled!
7. Matchbox Trivia box sets from John Lewis. The devilish dilemmas includes such quandaries as would you rather eat goats testicles in gravy or deep fried eye balls, and will really help you get to know each other after dinner!
8. Personalised coasters or place mats from Not on the High Street. Lift a few pictures from facebook of your gift receivers magic moments and have them immortalised on some dinner mats!
9. Do You Think You’re Clever: The Oxford and Cambridge Questions gathers some of the more perplexing conundrums put to Oxbridge candidates, put thing the whole family to the test and helping to revive the day after the post pudding crash!
10. A favourite for the Tatchells, a Photobox calendar. Pick 13 favourite photos (one for the front cover, I know there’s only 12 months in a year) and personalise it just how you want (you can even add birthdays if you wanted.) Worth the effort to flick through the pictures on Christmas Day.
11. If you’re feeling really generous, nothing would go down better than a Smythson Panama Diary, and in for a penny, in for a pound, get their initials on the bottom (notice a theme coming along?!) Understated luxury at its best!
12. A Hipflask. Everyone will at some point in their lives need to smuggle drink into an event. For some people it’s a pricey wedding, for others it’s merely Mill Lane every weekend. Either way you can’t have too many and they’ll always be appreciated!
