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#5SmartGifts - the 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
Handpicked gifts for the folks you love, and the folks you're obligated to give a gift to
Here it is! I took a different approach with this year’s gift guide and handpicked 5 gifts in each category of folks you’re shopping for (and a few categories of my own!). If you need more gift ideas, check out my 2020 gift guide and my 2019 gift guide (I still stand by every recommendation!)
For the wealthy folks in your life who you’re obligated to gift to
A Small Packages gift - let someone else do the heavy lifting of picking items and creating the perfect gift!
Random gifts for anyone on your list
A Birthday Book from their favorite (or local) newspaper
Pistachio pedestal bowl & the best pistachios (this is one of the best gifts I ever gifted my father, who is impossible to shop for. Huge win)
A Dagne Dover tech case, filled with chargers for their go-to devices and an AirFly
Latuza pajamas. Just trust me on this. These are my favorite women’s style, and the men’s style that my husband and father wear.
Gifts when you’re throwing shade/being passive aggressive
My books - How to Pack and We’re Speaking (also a great random gift to have on hand, or for the rockstar women & ally men in your life!)
For the nerds & geeks
For parents or grandparents, from the kids
Draw Your Own Embroidered sweatshirt (a great way to repurpose the art your kids make!)
For kids (and kids at heart)
For kids whose parents you want to torture
For gamers of all ages
Hitha’s #5SmartGifts (gifts I’ve received and love)
Hitha’s Wishlist
Personalized family recipe board (featuring my aunt’s famous pizza recipe!)
Amer cobra ring (my middle name means Queen of the cobras and I use it as an excuse to collect snake jewelry and homewares)
A Fornasetti candle (I’ve been collecting them for the past few years and try to add a new one every couple of years!)
White Elephant Gifts
For a super girly 8 year old
For the family member who doesn’t want you to waste your money
For a homesick Philadelphia Eagles fan
For the person who loves sports, Star Wars, and travel
Mitchell & Ness hat or Shit That I Knit NFL beanie
For a new baby
A fox lovey (Rhaki still loves his so much)
For the environmentally conscious
For someone who is grieving
Offer to take on digitizing all the photographs and videos, and this Minted print from some of those pictures
Complete a Storyworth project together to remember the person who passed
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