What to present to colleagues on February 23?

It is usually much easier for any lady to choose a gift for her man than to come up with a gift idea for her male colleagues. In every work collective, it is customary to congratulate the representatives of the stronger sex on Defender of the Fatherland Day, regardless of whether they served in the army or not. Therefore, the task of planning such gifts turns into an occasion for serious disputes and reflections in the female part of the team.

Gifts for male colleagues are more difficult, since all men in the work collective are different - in height, weight, age, hobbies and characters. And for this reason, it is completely impossible for everyone to buy a pair of socks and a shower gel. (They also use different cosmetic and care products, there is no way to please everyone).

It would seem that in the modern world, the choice of gifts is facilitated by online stores, where you can find a variety of souvenirs and cool gifts. But here's the trouble: one or two souvenirs can always be ordered, but not every first and even not every second warehouse of an online store can afford to have several dozen of the same things in stock for a large and friendly work collective.

Meanwhile, men are waiting for gifts on February 23rd and with some excitement think about what their wonderful colleagues will invent this time. Ladies want to simultaneously please and surprise men, as well as take into account the peculiarities and specifics of male psychology and the profession in which the heroes of the occasion work. Women are arranged in such a way that they are sensitive to the choice of gifts, even if these are collective gifts for colleagues.

And it is quite understandable the desire not only to hand the men at work bags with something on duty and painfully sore mouth, but sincerely surprise them, make them happy, give them something useful, because rationality is the hallmark of any man.

Much depends on the budget, which is at the disposal of the female part of the team. Female bosses very often allocate certain amounts for gifts for men. In this case, you can consider that your colleagues are lucky - there are more opportunities. If the chef is a man, then with a high degree of probability he will not allocate money for gifts by February 23rd. Therefore, women will have to throw off their hard-earned money, as much as they can, and then calculate what the cost of one presentation can be counted on.

Of course, it is important what exactly will be put in a bag or box, but no less important is how it will be presented. Therefore, it is worth starting to choose gifts and prepare a men's holiday by discussing this particular part. It often happens that the idea of ​​a gift is born already in the course of preparation. First of all, exclude all the methods of congratulations that you used before. (general collection in the director's office, in the accounting department, putting gifts on employees' tables while they have lunch, and so on).

Feel free to experiment - the female part of the team, dressed in garrison caps with toy weapons in their hands, marching on commands throughout the enterprise with a drill song to call men for congratulations, will have a much greater effect. For a long time this event will be discussed in your team.

As for the gifts themselves, you can give something from the list of universal presents, which are most popular for presenting to colleagues at work. Here are the hottest suggestions.

• Military style lighters (in the form of a grenade, mine, pistol). A good lighter is needed not only for the smoker. A man regularly has situations when a lighter is very useful, so the gift, one might say, is 100% useful.
• Business card holder... This convenient desktop or portable option will be a great gift if your male colleagues work in the office, work with people, and often exchange business cards.
• Housekeeper... A good leather key holder will always find application, because in most cases men often lose keys precisely because they neglect their proper storage and carrying.
• Umbrella... This is a universal gift. The main thing is not to choose too fanciful umbrellas with photo prints, because with views of Paris or a scattering of coffee beans overhead in rainy weather, not every man will agree to leave the house.
• Computer mouse. This is a great gift, and it doesn't matter if a man works with computers or not. At home, in any case, he has such a technique, and the mouse will always find a worthy application. It's great if the budget allows you to buy wireless mice.
• Magnetic board. This is a memo for the refrigerator. You can use it as a notebook to create reminders for yourself, your beloved, and also to leave command orders for other family members.
• Thermo mug... In cold weather, it will help keep drinks warm for longer, and in summer heat, on the contrary, it will provide a long cool state of fruit drink, kvass or mineral water. This option is much better than the usual mugs, which are already plentiful in every office. If a man spends a lot of time in the car, he can buy a thermo mug powered by a cigarette lighter. It removes the need for a kettle as it boils water perfectly.
• A set of tools for the home or car. A universal option is a set of wrenches. He is needed not only in the car, but also in the household.
• Auto accessories and auto cosmetics. Not a single car enthusiast will refuse good cosmetics for polishing the panel of a car or a new deodorant for the interior of a car. The main thing is not to forget about those who do not drive a car.
• Organizer, good notebook or notepad in a secure sturdy cover. Such a gift will be useful not only for office workers, although, first of all, for them, as well as engraved nominal pens.

Gifts that are made with your own hands leave more warm emotions and memories in the soul of those who receive such a gift - this is a fact. But if there are many men in the team, it will not work to blame all the work on one needlewoman, she may not be able to cope on time. Therefore, women will have to do it together and together. Here are some ideas for quickly and inexpensively presenting creative homemade gifts to male colleagues.

• A bouquet of roses and tanks of socks. Multi-colored pairs of socks are rolled into roses in a spiral, and then each is pinned with a small French pin. You can wrap the bouquet using wrapping paper, for example, khaki. Such bouquets are much better than ordinary socks in their original packaging. And there are also a lot of ideas on how to make a tank or a car out of 2-3 pairs of men's socks - in this form, socks may well be present in the list of potential gifts.
• Chocolate dumbbells. For such a gift, you will need wrapped chocolate bars and a cardboard blank - a dumbbell. Chocolates are simply pasted over the workpiece so that a solid sports equipment resembling a real one is visually obtained.
• Bath set. This will require inexpensive bath towels and bath caps. A roller is rolled up from a towel, its end is decorated with a hat. Under the cap below the margins, paper eyes are attached to a towel - it turns out a bath man. It can be supplemented with a ribbon on the “neck” with the inscription “From February 23!”, As well as homemade soap, if one of the ladies in the team knows how to make good homemade soap.
• Magnetic bracelet for nails, paper clips and nuts. This option is suitable for men who often make something. On the hand, such a wide bracelet of modest shades will be an indispensable assistant - it will be possible to attach all small metal parts to it, because it is they who are most often lost in the process of disassembling or assembling something by men. The magnet is easy to sew - it is a wide double strip, inside which a magnetic tape is sewn.
• Homemade key rings. You can use any materials and techniques. The main thing is that the design reminds of the reason for which these things were created.
• Fortune cookies. Ordinary homemade cookies are baked, a small note with a comic prediction is placed inside each. They give such sweets in handmade boxes.
• Homemade personalized cards. Every man will be pleased to receive a postcard with his own portrait and personal wishes. To do this, you can use photos of colleagues and funny army cartoons, in which it will be enough to insert your colleague's face. To produce such a gift, ladies are needed who can draw and sketch well.
• Large photo collage, the heroes of which will be men working in a team. It can be hung in a prominent place, thereby creating a festive mood for all the stronger sex.

It will be great if the ladies complement the festive meal with an entertainment program - musical and poetic gifts, funny scenes and improvisations, contests in which men who have grown tired of a good attitude and delicious food will be able to show themselves as real heroes.

To make the gift not only useful, but also cheer up, you should think about interesting, funny, comic presentations to the male team. Here are some interesting ideas.

• Beer mugs. This is a safe bet, especially if you treat it with a bit of humor. There are a lot of series of humorous beer mugs, the price of which starts from 150 rubles. If the budget is more serious, then present the USSR Beer Mugs set, which includes two massive glass beer mugs, as in the beer mugs of the Soviet period. With such circles, your colleague will not be ashamed to host a friend.
• Foldable bucket or chair. Such things will come in handy in the garage, and on fishing, and in the car, so they will definitely cheer up the heroes of the occasion.
• Unusual forms for freezing icefor example in the form of a grenade or a bomb. Such ice, served with drinks for guests, will certainly delight, the owner will be pleased.
• Multifunctional opener. It can be equipped with knives, a corkscrew and a host of other functions. A good man will not have too much.
• Funny alcohol sets. For example, a beer mug complete with a stack with the inscription “Money Down the drain” or chess, which consists of small figures-glasses and a board. The set can be accompanied by two types of drinks - cognac and vodka, for example, so that a man can try to play a test game. The rules are ordinary - chess.
• Souvenir breathalyzer. This is a labyrinth with a ball. It shows the degree of intoxication of the owner, depending on whether he managed to bring the ball through the maze to the end.
• Personalized cartoons for each of the male employees. You can order them by photographs. Try to convey in the cartoon the main character traits and the best qualities of each of your colleagues.
• Desktop fan from USB in the form of a pistol or a bomb. It is a great gift for an office worker.
• Antistress toys. Their choice is great. Which ones are right for your colleagues, you decide.

As a general gift for the entire team of men, you can consider the option of buying a basketball hoop and a ball in their office version (warm up at lunchtime), you can give the whole team a trip to an exciting quest or paintball. Recently, draws have been gaining momentum, which are arranged by people and organizations specializing in this. For example, on the eve of a men's holiday, your office may be attacked by robbers wearing masks and with weapons, or tax inspectors or police may be welcome.

What other options for unusual gifts with a fair amount of sense of humor can you give your male colleagues, worth considering in more detail.

• Mini punching bag. This is a desktop version, on which, despite its small size, it is quite possible to take out a bad mood and setbacks if the day has not been set in the morning.
• Own oil well. This is an original souvenir with a rubber mass inside that perfectly imitates oil. You can touch it without getting dirty. It does not have an unpleasant, pungent odor. Such a souvenir is presented with wishes of wealth and prosperity.
• Souvenir "Worker". This is a figurine of a weary worker. If you press the button on your belly, she will wonder if you want to work, and then recommend the epic "go to sleep so that everything goes away."
• Motorists will love the talking cigarette lighter, who reacts to the approach of his hand with the phrase "Do not go under the arm!".
• Beer helmet. This is a helmet-shaped headdress equipped with a tube system.It is enough to put it on your head and dip the tube into the drink - everything works, and your hands are free.
• Striptease mugs. This is a good gift for a young team with a normal sense of humor (older colleagues may not understand the creativity of the donors). When the contents of the mug are heated, the female figures on it will undress, and as the tea or coffee cools down, they will put on back.
• Movable alarm clock. This is a great gift for men who are constantly late for work. To turn off one, you will have to leave the comfortable bed in any case, because for this you first need to catch the alarm clock, because it runs, flies, crawls, rushes and tries in every possible way to dodge the owner, dissatisfied with the awakening.
• USB flash drive of unusual design. Both useful and very pleasant. For example, you can present your colleagues with a flash card in the form of a bullet, a grenade, an underwater mine or a tank, a car and other things traditionally associated with men.
• Hammocks for legs. This is a great present for office workers who have to sit in one place all day. Hammocks are attached under the writing table between the sides. In them, the legs can comfortably rest in limbo, while their owner diligently works on the boss's instructions.
• Lost key fob with feedback. It can be attached to both car and home keys. If a man forgets where he put them, then the keys themselves will notify him of their place of deployment with an original whistle, which will be emitted in response to the whistle or clapping of the owner.
• Book with a secret. This is a great option for legal stash. It looks like a thick volume of the "General Regulations" or "Melee Tactics", but inside there is an excellent hiding place for little men's secrets.
• Forbes magazine with a photo of each colleague on the cover. It is made to order in an advertising agency or organizations specializing in jokes and holidays. The effect is unforgettable, but mainly on office workers, since the name of the magazine may not say anything to most of the men in the housing department or the plant, then the gift will be perceived with bewilderment.

To make a holiday for men at work, it is not at all necessary to have a large amount of money. Even symbolic, simple, small gifts can bring a lot of pleasure and be useful for the stronger sex. A cheap gift or an expensive one is not that important. It is much more important that the present "hit the mark" and please the heroes of the occasion. Let's take a look at some of the gift options that can be made in conditions of a very limited budget.

• A shovel for raking in money. You will need to buy the simplest sapper shovel (price from 200 rubles), stick souvenir coins on it - the gift is ready. After the holiday, when a man, looking at a present, is dreaming enough that someday he will row money with a shovel, a sapper shovel will find a worthy use in the household.
• Diplomas, awards and certificates. Personalized diplomas for the "Best driver in the world", "For the best defender of the Fatherland" and others with the name of the hero of the occasion, as well as an award medal or order will be an excellent gift. The cost of the venture is also low - no more than 300 rubles.
• T-shirts with funny inscriptions. The theme can be any, but it is better if it is still a military-festive one. And also it is worth considering the complexion and size of each man in your team. There is always a place to wear a T-shirt.
• Pillow in the car. The inscription can be anything, for example, "I am the supreme commander in chief!" or “Stop! Attention! "

A good option for those who have not been able to choose something suitable for themselves from this list is buying a gift certificate (their cost usually starts from 500 rubles).

Anything that in one way or another affects a person's personality and personal space, hints at his shortcomings, should be considered unsuccessful gifts for colleagues. For example, it is foolish to donate a certificate to a gym or pool to a team of office workers, among whom two-thirds are overweight. The impulse, of course, is understandable, it can even be considered good, but such a gift will certainly cause an offense. Rest assured, on March 8 your men will surely take revenge on you with the same coin.

Considering the degree of closeness of the relationship (and with colleagues it is businesslike), you should not give items of clothing, accessories, for example, panties, swimming trunks, belts and ties. The same prohibition applies to perfumery. The only acceptable option is a gift certificate to the perfumery chain, where a man can choose the fragrance that he likes best for himself. Avoid useless gifts.

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