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The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide
In The Vindi’s Holiday Gift Guide, we’ll walk you through perfect gifts for everyone on your list!
As the holiday season approaches, you may Rocketbook smart notebooks are also a great be experiencing the stress that accompanies gift for those who do a lot of work online. These gift giving which may be especially difficult notebooks have the look and feel of paper, but can this year. Because you can’t shop around the mall or be wiped clean and reused. Before being wiped clean, make a quick pit stop at the store, it’ll be more difficult send your notes to the Cloud to transfer them into to navigate holiday shopping than usual. While this digital materials. These notebooks can be purchased holiday season will look a little different than we’re anywhere between $20 and $30. used to, it’s still a great time to show your love and appreciation for friends and family. In order to ease For the Book Lovers the stress of holiday gift giving, we’ve created the If there’s someone on your list that always has their following gift guide to aid your holiday shopping! nose in a book, consider giving them a book by their For Stress Relief When you have a book lover on your list, you can For those on your list that could use some stress never go wrong giving them a book by their favorite relief, a weighted blanket or heated back massager author or a book in a genre they enjoy. A great way is a great gift. to find books to gift is looking at the listing of their
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Weighted blankets offer a number of incredible favorite book on Amazon.com and looking through benefits that help ease stress. Because they keep a the related searches, as these books will be similar. person’s body from fidgeting throughout the night, Another great gift for book lovers is a One Line a weighted blankets improve sleep which leads to Day Journal. These books consist of five years worth decreased anxiety. The average price is $66, but can of journal entries with a few lines each. The idea is cost anywhere between $20 to $200. to write a few lines each day and at the end you have
Another great stress relieving gift is a heated back five years worth of memories. When the One Line a massager. These back massagers relieve back pain Day Journal is completed, it serves as a book reliving with both heat and kneading. Heated back massagers the last five years of an author’s life. These journals may be incredibly helpful this holiday season, as most cost a little less than $15. of us sit in front of a screen for most of the day. The average price for a massager is $40, but the price For the Cinema Loverscan vary from $10 to $60 depending on the variety When you have a cinema lover on your list, a great of settings. gift is an article of clothing referencing their favorite For Life Online show,movie, or a subscription to a streaming service. If a person is passionate about a show or movie, Because many of us have had to learn how to adapt to online schooling or work, you can’t go wrong giving you can never go wrong getting them a sweater that gifts that make life online a little more bearable. references that. For example, if you have a friend
A great gift for those that spend a large part of their that loves The Office, you could give them a “Dunder day online is a pair of blue light glasses. These glasses Mifflin Paper Company” t-shirt or a “Schrute Farms” have lenses that block or absorb the harmful blue light sweater. that comes from a computer or phone screen. Blue Another great gift for the cinema lover in your light strains the eyes and also activates the brain, life is a subscription to a streaming service. There making it difficult to fall asleep after looking at a are a variety of streaming services that all offer screen. A pair of blue light glasses can be found at incredible content and by gifting your cinema lover almost any price, but you can expect to pay around a subscription, you are gifting them endless hours of $30 for a quality pair. favorite author or a One Line a Day Journal.
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entertainment! Two of the best streaming services are Netflix and Hulu, which both cost around $10 a month.
For The Travelers Great gifts for someone in your life that loves to travel is a scratch-off map or a portable charger.
Scratch-off maps allow the traveler in your life to document their trips and visualize all the places they have been. There are options in different color palettes for every taste and both United State’s and world maps. These maps can cost anywhere from $10 to $50 depending on size and quality.
Another great gift for a traveler is a portable phone charge. When you’re travelling, having your phone at all times is vital because phones offer maps, translation apps, and a method of photographing your trips. Portable charges can cost between $5 to $50, with the higher end offering a longer lasting charge.
For the Outdoor Lovers Because the holiday season can be cold and gloomy, a succulent kit or sunlamp are great gifts for an outdoor lover.
Succulent kits allow a person to plant and grow their own succulent. This brings the element of nature into their home, which is incredibly helpful in the wintertime. Succulents alone can cost as little as a couple dollars and succulent kits can cost between $20 to $50.
Another great gift for the outdoor lover is a sunlamp. One of the great things about being outdoors is the exposure to sunlight. Because there is so much less sunlight in the wintertime, you can’t go wrong gifting your outdoor lover a sunlamp. These lamps cost between $30 and $80.
For the Skincare Gurus Great gifts for the skincare guru in your life is Glossier’s The Skin Care Edit or a product organizer. Glossier is one of the frontrunners in the skincare market. Their Skin Care Edit bundle is a collection of their best-selling skincare products, including their iconic Milky Jelly Cleanser and Balm Dotcom. This kit is perfect for anyone with a passion for skincare, and comes in at $50.
Another great gift for a skincare guru is a makeup organizer. These organizers offer a great way to keep skincare products organized and easily accessible. Makeup organizers can costanywhere from $10 to $50 depending on the size and style.
While online shopping is a great way to avoid a trip to the store, local businesses also offer great gifts and shopping local gives back to the community.
A great Cleveland-based company to purchase gifts from is Cleveland Candle Company. They offer a range of scents in the form of candles, wax melts, and bath and body products. Their products can be purchased online or at one of their stores in Mentor, Coventry, or Ohio City. Another great option from the Cleveland Candle Company is a gift card to stop in the shop and create your own candle. You get to pick your jar and the scents you’d like to mix into your candle. The price ranges from $16 to $36 depending on the size of the jar you choose.
Another great gift for the creatives on your list is a gift card to Maggie and Ellie’s. A pottery and art studio in Strongsville, they offer board art, pottery and canvas painting, and glass fusing. You could even create a custom piece to give someone on your list.
If you’ve racked your brain and are unsure what to give that last person on your list, you can’t go wrong with a gift card tree with gift cards to popular Cleveland hotspots. With gift cards to places like Mitchell’s Homemade Ice Cream, Barrio Tacos, Campbell’s Sweets Factory, and The Chocolate Bar, this gift is bound to be a hit.
While this holiday season may be more stressful than usual, don’t pass up the opportunity to show your appreciation for friends and family!