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Things don’t always fit into boxes. We’ve been working on this site long enough to realise that the best gifts aren’t always wrapped up with neat little labels attached, and that cramming them into just because you need to file something away is somehow disrespectful to the gift itself. So here’s where those things go. It’s not a junk drawer. Let us be clear on that front. Nothing’s ended up here because we forgot about it or got bored trying to categorise it. Everything in this section has had to earn its place on the site just like everything else.…

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Entertainment

Some people are tricky to buy for until you remember what they actually do in their downtime. They have game nights that last until midnight. They escape into movies like it’s a form of worship. They collect records. They hoard puzzles. They spend entire weekends embroiled with a favourite board game. When you start thinking about how people spend their leisure time beyond the surface level you realise that the right gift is nowhere near as hard to find. That realisation is what this guide is founded on. Not entertainment itself but the joy you can bring someone by honing…

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Food & Drink

Some people are difficult to buy gifts for regardless of how hard you try. Other people eat and drink well, and care about what they put on their tables. These people, by contrast, are the easiest to shop for if you stop worrying about being different and start worrying about being good. This is the thought process behind this gift collection. We like food and drink gifts for two reasons. One, as soon as you buy them, people tend to use them. Not stash them away. Not hang them on the wall. Use them. Enjoy them. Mention them at dinner…

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For Her

Gift collections for women suffer from one major problem. They presume too much, and think too little. Every list of gift ideas ends up rounding up the same bath sets. Novelty jewellery. Things we’ve seen a thousand times before. Placeholders, not choices. We never liked that philosophy. We didn’t build this collection that way. We started with her. The real her. Not a woman we’ve created from a pile of lazy assumptions. We considered the women in our lives; the ones who care way too much about coffee and would rather receive one truly amazing thing than three mundane ones.…

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For Him

Buying for men isn’t difficult. It’s just made out to be. Hence the gift guides filled with novelty socks, branded bottle openers and everything else that gets tossed into a drawer for eternity before being quietly binned. Buying for him has never felt so low stakes to us, so we didn’t make it that way. These are gifts we chose because they’re truly worth giving. Not ‘gift-worthy’ in some halfway acceptable present sense of the word. Things that are worth giving because he’s going to use it, think about it, realise that somebody was paying attention to what he likes.…

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Personalised

There is a version of personalised gifting that we all recognise and want nothing to do with. The mug with the name on it. The keyring that arrived looking slightly off. The thing that tried hard and landed wrong. That version exists because personalisation got popular and a lot of people treated it as a shortcut rather than a craft. We are not interested in that version at all. What we are interested in is the reason personalisation exists in the first place, which is that some occasions demand a gift that could not have come from anyone else. A…

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Special Occasions

Sometimes moments in your life come with heft on their shoulders that ordinary gifts don’t match. Your thirtieth birthday. A ruby wedding anniversary. The first Christmas without them in your home, or the first with a newborn bub asleep in their own room. Those moments you know you need to get right. A bottle of wine or an eleventh hour voucher just doesn’t cut it and yet that’s what most people buy anyway because everyone feels the pressure and nobody gets it right. We built this collection because we kept seeing that gap. Of course there are plenty of places…

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Sports

They’re up when others are sleeping, talking about their sport like they can’t quite get enough of it. They already have everything they need but have also found some way they need more. Buying for the athlete in your life is easy and difficult. Easy; they care about their kit. Difficult; they know it inside out and any cheap crap sticks out like a sore thumb. We built this collection thinking of that pressure. We didn’t want to make jokes and gift sports branded jumpers that will live in a drawer half the year. We wanted to pick stuff that…

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