gifts for all (or at least, some)

A full list of the marginally useful (but hopefully amusing!) gift guides compiled on this blog. And just to note: I do not use affiliate links or accept free stuff. These lists are a labor of love.

2024

Somewhat practical aesthetes

The spaced-out

Gifts that warm

Wild swimmers

Knowledge-hungry and nonsense-loving nine-year-olds

Imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð 2024 + wish-listed books for 2025

2023

Beastly gifts

Measurement and degree

Clarity and reflection

Assorted gifts of varying opulence

Exuberantly eccentric eight-year-olds

Some books that might be worth giving (or getting)

Imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð 2023 + wish-listed books for 2024

2022

Decadent bathers

Colorful characters

Foodie gifts you should not eat

Stoners

Sweet and salty seven-year-old storytellers

Books that might make good gifts, depending on the recipient

Imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð 2022 + wish-listed books for 2023

2021

Burnt-out home cooks (who still have to make dinner)

Gifts for studies

Strict pedestrians
Mushroom people

Singular six-year-olds

Imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð 2021 + wish-listed books for 2022

2020

To fill idle hours

Empyrean and edenic

Gifts of comfort and connection

Gifts linked to books beloved by a five-year-old

Imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð 2020 (and too many books to read in the time allotted)

2019
Jigsaw puzzlers
Schlegel sisters
March sisters

Practical and fanciful four-year-olds

Imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð 2019 (and a haphazard collection of wish-listed books)

2018
Mycophiles (all ages)
Rock collectors
Chionophiles
Random gifts for specific people

Opinionated three-year-olds who love bright colors and the moon, among other things
Imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð (and bookmarked books to give or get)

2017
Dark gifts for witty women
Sensitive listeners
Green thumbs
Midwinterish gifts

Noisy, messy, and marvelous young children
Giftable books for specific readers

2016
Moon gazers
Commuters (all sorts)
Hobbyists
Play time
Magpies
The scattershot

2015 
First Christmases
The sleep-deprived
Craft rooms
Householders
Library-goers

2014
Cloud spotters
Spies
Armchair mountaineers
Animal lovers

2013
Starry-eyed wanderers
Writers and readers
Beekeepers
Collectors of curiosities
Staying in
Venturing out

2012
The dreamer of ice and snow
The reader of fairy tales
The classicist
Homebodies
The bookish

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gifts some mothers may enjoy: 2017 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023 / 2024

birthday gifts for 42-year-olds / 43-year-olds / 44-year-olds / 46-year-olds

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Christmas rush at the Washington post office. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. 1860-1920.