#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

• Brightland olive oil

• Red Clay gift set

• Hotel Lobby Candle with a USB lighter and a wick trimmer

• History by mail subscription

• 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 

• Foot warmer

• 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!)

• Mismatched knitted socks

• Acts of kindness scratch off calendar

• Trigger point back rocker

• Red Clay ‘Spice Up Your Life’ gift set

For the nerds & geeks 

• Master Theorem Book of Puzzles

• Mars Zen Garden

• Personalized crossword print

• Star Trek: TNG mug

• Marvel Greatest Comics

For parents or grandparents, from the kids

• Draw Your Own Embroidered sweatshirt (a great way to repurpose the art your kids make!)

• The cutest mug ever

• Handwritten message money clip

• Reel viewer with family pictures

• Heart snapshot print

For kids (and kids at heart)

• KiwiCo subscription

• Create your own comic book kit

• Little patient plush toy

• Smartphone-controlled paper airplane

• Poop Bingo

For kids whose parents you want to torture

• Learn to mix & spin DJ pad

• Booty Shaking Pug

• Bluey talking plush

• Pokemon Trainer Mission Toy

• Claw Machine Arcade Game

For gamers of all ages

• Personalized retro gamer pint glass

• Create your own video game set

• Super Pac-Man Countercade game

• LEGO Sonic The Hedgehog kit

• Press Start! book series

Hitha’s #5SmartGifts (gifts I’ve received and love)

• Shark AirStyler

• Mindful breathing necklace

• A custom piece of Haverhill jewelry

• Naghedi St. Barth’s Mini bag

• A Click & Grow garden

Hitha’s Wishlist

• Book Nook reading valet

• 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!)

• Kilte Collection’s Ellie cape

White Elephant Gifts

• Dinosaur taco holders

• Bluetooth banana phone

• Karaoke microphone

• Burrito blanket

• Hot dog & bun toaster

For a super girly 8 year old

• The most perfect sequined jacket

• Mystery Squishmallow

• Amulet book series

• Super Smalls winter accessories kit

• Super Smalls craft kit

For the family member who doesn’t want you to waste your money

• Mindful cross stitch experience

• Connection kit

• Painting for relaxation experience

• Random acts of kindness kit

• Pizza making experience

For a homesick Philadelphia Eagles fan

• Signed & framed picture of Brandon Graham sacking Tom Brady

• Mitchell & Ness Eagles sweatshirt

• Eagles Snuggie

• Philly Special: The Inside Story of How the Philadelphia Eagles Won their First Super Bowl Championship

• Homesick Philadelphia candle

For the person who loves sports, Star Wars, and travel

• Paravel compression packing cubes

• Dagne Dover toiletry bag

• Set of 8 Star Wars blueprints

• Mitchell & Ness hat or Shit That I Knit NFL beanie

• Star Wars VR game

For a new baby

• Dalton the storytelling dragon

• Rattle socks

• Taco baby toys

• A fox lovey (Rhaki still loves his so much)

• Weezie baby towel bundle

For the environmentally conscious

• A copy of The Modern Tiffin and a Material Kitchen prep set

• Kitsch shampoo & conditioner bar set and towel scrunchies

• A tumbler made from recycled materials and Pique teas

• House of Marley headphones and a Libro.fm gift certificate

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

• The coziest blanket

• Cashmere hoodie and lounge pants

• Grief is Love