Wrap It Up

Pick who it’s for and open the box. Mostly cheap, mostly homemade, and every idea comes with the reason it works.

Choose who the gift is for

Five boxes. Open whichever one fits.

How this works

Every idea in here leans cheap, homemade or free, because the good ones usually are. Each one is tagged make this, do this or buy this — and “do this” is the one worth reading twice, since taking someone somewhere or learning the thing they love costs nothing and gets remembered longer than an object.

There are no brands, no prices and no links, on purpose. Products date badly and a page full of them stops being advice. What you get is the idea and the reason it works; the rest is up to you.

Nothing here is sent anywhere. Which ideas you’ve already seen is kept in your own browser so you don’t get the same one twice.