Highly Specific Gift Guide 2023!
Consider me your ChatGPT for online shopping.
My favorite thing to do aside from smelling my children’s heads is shop for extremely personal gifts for people I love. For the next three days, I will use this fixation for people YOU love, with the return of the Highly Specific Gift Guide.
Last year’s gift guide was by far my most read and subscription-generating post I’ve ever written. You can familiarize yourself with it and its follow-up below.
This year, we’re doing the same thing on a first-come-first-serve basis. TO GET A GIFT RECOMMENDATION, please comment below, and include the PRICE RANGE and a detailed a description (age, interests/hobbies, personality, profession) of the person on your gift list. I will work until I sweat.
Consider me your ChatGPT for online shopping.
Once again, here is last year’s to get the gist of what generates the best results:
YOUR HIGHLY SPECIFIC GIFT GUIDE: PART ONE
My introverted 37 y/o mechanical engineer husband who holds the inexplicable belief that it is acceptable to tell a gift-giver that he does not like what they gave him. He returns 90% of all gifts. He is an over-researcher of every purchase, and so while I can choose something related to his hobbies (drumming, camping, drone flying, talking about crypto…
My 42-year-old brother-in-law who has very expensive taste, buys everything he wants, and has never used anything my husband (his brother) and I have gotten for him except for a gift card to a bougie grocery store near his house. Italian and Jewish, loves to make pasta - not from scratch. Father of two under 3, loves tinned fish and expensive olive oil, Filson, cycling, skiing, has a very dry sense of humor. Gets very into activities and buys all of the necessary gear (fly fishing, fencing, surfing, etc.) and then doesn’t do said activity with much regularity. My husband doesn’t think a bag of fancy specialty grocery items is sufficient. $75-150. Help!
I am looking for a gift for my son's nanny (aka the person who keeps my son and those closest to him alive/safe/happy/functional) - I would give her every penny I have (tbh I mostly...do) but want to also give her a holiday gift that she'll love. She is a 55 year old mother of four, recent grandmother of two, is in multiple groups on Facebook (I.e 55+ women who are OVER IT) and is not afraid to comment and call people out whether IRL or online, loves a good meme (she and my dad have the same sense of humor - is that helpful?), a glass of wine and binging Netflix (specifically shows like THE NIGHT AGENT and LOVE IS BLIND), buying gorgeous, body-hugging dresses on Fashion Nova which she wears to her church holiday parties, and then sends us GLAM PHOTOS that we ogle over. Our nanny takes her job incredibly seriously: she went to an event this year called Nanny-palooza where she took courses, workshops, and networked with other nannies so she could be at the top of her game. We will be giving her a holiday bonus, so this is just something she can unwrap. Budget is $75. We adore her and she rocks our world!!!