Gifts

Gifts, sorted by who you’re buying for

Start with the person or the swap rule, then the budget. Every guide has one top pick, a few alternates, and a plain note on what not to buy.

Good gifts are mostly about matching the situation: a $20 swap rewards something people will fight over, a host gift should be useful the next morning, and a stocking should hold things people actually use. We organise by situation first, because “gifts for him” is a category nobody actually shops by.

Every list leads with a top pick and says who each item is for and when to skip it. If we do not have a good answer for a situation, we do not write the page.

By recipient

By budget

Budgets are what you plan to spend per gift. We never list prices.