Ideas for original and unusual gifts for the New Year

New Year is a holiday that is associated with gifts almost more than a birthday. At least relatives and friends must be given something, but every year the question arises again of what to give. If the potential gifted person is not included in the immediate environment, it is somehow not accepted to spend significant amounts on a gift for him, while another stupid and banal souvenir is not only tasteless, but also stupid.

Originality itself is not at all a sign of a good New Year's gift: for example, giving a head of garlic to a person or giving a live goat would be very original, but such a decision is unlikely to be perceived in a positive way. In pursuit of the goal of picking up an unusual gift, do not forget that it should be pleasant for a person. In order not to miss and make a consistent and logical choice, ask yourself a few simple questions and answer them.

• Why is the present given? Many consider the best gift to be something practical, but a symbolic present can also have a positive effect if it pleases, entertains or pleasantly surprises the person being gifted.
• What is the potential recipient interested in? It is no secret that the tastes and preferences of all people are different, therefore the same thing can be an excellent solution in one case, and a failure in another. If you can, look in a potential purchase for at least some kind of attachment to the one to whom you will hand it over.
• How much can you spend? When choosing a gift for a specific person, do not get carried away much, because for sure your list of loved ones is not limited only to them, but there should be enough money for everyone. Better to sketch out an approximate budget plan in advance and try not to go beyond it.
• Material or emotion? Until now, under a New Year's gift, they usually perceive something that you can touch with your hands, but this holiday is no worse than a birthday, on which many of our people are already getting used to giving impressions.

Since such a point of sale does not specialize in anything else, the assortment here is usually impressive. Many of these sellers work on the Internet, and a unique present can even be ordered by mail.

Finally, don't forget that not only the gift itself is important, but also the process of giving it - it's always very exciting and pleasant for both parties. Unlike other holidays for the New Year, you can not give the present in your hands, but put it under the tree, but in any case, it is worthwhile to understand in advance how the transfer will take place.

There is also a specific list of potential gifts to forget about once and for all. Of course, in certain situations even such a present may be appropriate, but this happens very rarely.

• Figures of animals whose year is coming. This is an example of an eerie platitude, which, moreover, has no practical purpose. In general, the symbolism of the animal of the next year does not even approximately pretend to be originality, but if it is even applied to a practical thing, then this is not so bad. If the addressee has no craving for collecting figures and a special shelf for them, the gift will gather dust in the drawer for years.
• Personal belongings. In the New Year, a person is waiting for a miracle, and if you guess to give socks or shaving foam, do not be surprised that the expected delight is not observed in the eyes of the donee. Unique packaging or unusual designs don't make things like this better. In addition, you should be more careful with more refined, but the same personal items, such as linen, perfume or cosmetics. In this case, the chosen thing as a whole may be very good, but it simply does not suit the person or does not correspond to his preferences.
• Expensive surprises. For the New Year, it is customary to give gifts to all more or less close people, respectively, you need to buy a lot of presents, because the wallet of most people is enough only for relatively inexpensive gifts. If a person is not one of your immediate family members and plans to give you a relatively cheap present (or worse, he has nothing to cover at all), you simply put him in an uncomfortable position.
• Recurring gifts. The New Year is a miracle and although everyone is waiting for it, no one can say for sure what it should be. Some people do not understand this and consider it quite normal to give a person the same gift every year. Do not become predictable - even a good gift will become boring over time and will not be perceived with enthusiasm.

We can conclude that New Year's souvenirs are too banal and inappropriate. In fact, of course, this is not entirely true - it all depends on how hackneyed souvenir you have chosen.

Modern globalization leads to the fact that all over the world goods are approximately the same, and a good souvenir was and remains that little thing that no one has ever seen before.If you find something like this, you can safely give it, this is a good option. And here are some examples showing that the New Year theme in design is not limited to the usual costumes.

• Teapot in the shape of Santa Claus. Not to be confused with banal figures of the same character without any practical purpose.

• A deck of playing cards decorated with New Year's prints.

• Digital photo frame, imitating a Christmas tree toy.

• A bag, "Sewn" from the headdress of Santa Claus.

• Bottle cases sparkling wine.

• Candles in the form of snowmen melting during combustion.

• Flash drives, whose shape follows the silhouette of a Christmas tree.

All of the above shows that, in principle, New Year's symbols can be applied to anything - no platitudes with all those T-shirts, cups and kitchen aprons.

When choosing a New Year's gift for an adult, for some reason they completely forget that the present could well be edible. Do not think that only children's gifts can consist of sweets - in fact, for adult addressees such a gift will be very useful, because among them there are often sweet tooth too.

Of course, we are not talking about some trivial cardboard box filled with relatively inexpensive sweets and sold in the nearest supermarket. Turn on your imagination, and your gift will be remembered for years to come.

This is not sold in ordinary stores, but a personalized chocolate bar, which can be found on the Internet, could become an interesting presentation option. You've probably seen similar bottles of Coca-Cola, but that is perceived too trite precisely because of the fact that it is sold everywhere. It's a completely different matter - chocolate bar, because the addressee's name can be applied in curly letters to it itself, and not only to the label.

An alternative and slightly more complex solution is chocolate card congratulating the addressee with the New Year. In a large city, it may be a little easier with it, because it is possible that some confectionery store has already released something similar with ready-made words of congratulation applied to the surface of the tile.

In small settlements, you will either have to use the Internet again, or look for a chocolate shop where they will make a sweet postcard to order. The last option is especially good because you yourself decide how the finished product will look like, and what exactly will be written on it.

If all this is very difficult for you, creative and pleasant you can make a sweet gift with your own hands from ordinary sweets. Although it is better, after all, not from any, but from those that the potential recipient likes. Remember the experience of working with the constructor, even if it was the last time in distant childhood, arm yourself with scotch tape and try to assemble a creative figurine, which you will hand over.

The most obvious solution is characteristic spruce silhouette as a symbol of the upcoming holiday, at the same time, it does not differ in its complex configuration. If a gift is made for a girl, sweets can be arranged in the form of a bouquet - it is always pleasant for a lady to receive flowers, but they are usually not given on New Year's, and then suddenly there is such a surprise.

Something like this is sometimes sold in stores - there seems to be a traditional gift, in the form of a set of sweets, but packed in a creative box. Even a toy can act as such, for example, a pop-up truck filled to the brim with sweets. Another similar solution is backpack in the form of an animal, which is also sold along with sweets in it.

Finally, you don't have to reinvent the wheel: if the culinary arts are not alien to you, and pastry is not a weak point, you can donate personally made sweets. It can be anything - gingerbread cookies, cookies, muffins and so on, as long as you are one hundred percent sure that it turned out delicious, otherwise there will be an embarrassment.

Another important detail is that this type of gift is usually given to several people from the same company at once - either one for all, or one copy for each.

However, you don't have to bake a cake or pie yourself, focusing on the creativity of its design. For some reason, it is customary to consider such a confection to be an attribute of a purely birthday, but in fact there are a lot of sweet tooth in the modern world, and the festive table probably involves some kind of dessert. In the confectionery, you can order a cake decorated with any figurines of your choice - these can be heroes from the famous "Prostokvashino", the movie "Home Alone" or even Soviet New Year comedies.

Whatever one may say, the absolute majority of modern stores sell consumer goods - with the current globalization, you can easily meet a person from the other end of the planet who has an exact copy of one or another of your things. In such conditions, it becomes more and more difficult to find a truly original gift, therefore it is not surprising that Do-it-yourself was considered the best gift.

The point here is not only and even not so much in absolute uniqueness as in demonstrating attention to a person - you did not get off with a minimum amount for another trinket, but spent a significant amount of your own free time creating a creative presentation.

Here, of course, those who, in principle, are friends with creativity and are able to present one of their next masterpieces as a gift, feel especially free. However, if you undertook to read this section, then for sure you still know how to do something with your own hands - it remains consider ideas of what it might be.

• New Year's conservation - an option for those who are not strong in the arts, but are friends with fantasy. In general, this is another variation on the presentation of sweets, about which a lot has already been said above, only here the candy essence of the gift does not immediately catch the eye.

All you need to do is take a beautiful jar of any desired volume, fill it to the top with small candies and close it with a lid, like a real canning. From afar, only shiny candy wrappers will be visible, and the recipient will not immediately understand what it is. The dishes, of course, should be additionally decorated - for this, tinsel is glued to it with tape.

• Cup sweater - seemingly useless, but at the same time a very cute accessory that adds coziness, and at the same time allows the hand not to burn if the drink is hot inside. You can make such a present in different ways - whoever knows how to weave or knit uses this method, but you can also sew a product from felt or any other similar fabric.

The size of the finished product is small, therefore, much time, effort, and materials will not be spent on its manufacture. At the same time, the skill manifested in the “believable” design of such a “sweater” will cause additional delight in a loved one.

• New Year's sock for gifts - this is an accessory that today almost no one uses for its intended purpose. In most houses where it is, it is only taken out before the New Year, but you can beat its design by making something more useful.

Small enough to make it a great bag for storing headphones, extending the life of this popular accessory. You can sew such a sock yourself from fleece or felt, while performing a useful and practical function, it will create a New Year's mood for the owner.

• Box of postcards may seem like a matter of dubious practicality, but such a decision certainly cannot be accused of banality. You will not find something like this in a store, even theoretically - this is purely manual work, albeit not very complicated.

The material for it, however, needs a peculiar one - it will take several New Year's cards to make, and priority is given to old editions, which usually have a brighter color despite their faded colors. You can connect individual walls of the future box in any way convenient for you, if only it was beautiful.

• Self-made soap - a creative gift that requires an understanding of certain laws of cosmetology, but otherwise simple to manufacture. Instructions on how to make soap at home are ubiquitous on the Internet, this task is so simple that they even produce appropriate children's kits for creativity. Take any odorless baby soap as a basis, and collect the scent yourself, focusing on the means at hand and the tastes of the addressee, who is likely to be a woman.

Sometimes no option for a large and significant gift comes to mind, and giving something small seems ugly and unworthy. In this situation, it would be wise to give a set of several simple but necessary things, each of which could please the addressee a little. As a rule, the set is handed out in some kind of common box, which the donor could collect himself, but recently there have also been store versions of such solutions.

By the way, it is not always logical to hand over such presents - since in terms of scale some of them resemble a classic parcel, sometimes it makes sense to mail it and send it in order to actively beat the idea of ​​a New Year's miracle.

Most often, things from a set should be united by some common thought or theme. Let's consider vivid examples of such compositions.

• The package for the coffee lover... Everything is logical here - it is somehow awkward for a loved one to give a cup or a pack of coffee for the New Year, even if it is very expensive. Another thing is that you can put several exotic packages of coffee from distant countries at once. In general, the actual pack of grains may be one, but then let her be accompanied by the same cup, as well as other useful ingredients - cinnamon, dark chocolate and cookies.

• Bath set. Here the situation is similar to the one described above - a towel or bubble bath looks somehow small and does not inspire delight.It's another matter if you donate both of these things, and at the same time also scented candles, some salt and a washcloth. Separately, these things seem cheap and commonplace, but together, and even packed, they allow you to comfortably take a bath anywhere.

• Baking kit. Something like this is usually given to women who love culinary exercises and have achieved significant success in them. Anything can be included in such a set - from the actual baking dishes to tablecloths and even kitchen utensils. Such a gift is good because it also demonstrates the recognition of a person's talent - you seem to say that you really like the recipient's pastries and ask him to continue in the same spirit.

• Gift set for manicure. This option will be perfectly met by many women, because caring for your own nails is fundamentally important for the beautiful half of humanity. If a girl constantly deals with such issues on her own, she probably already has all these multi-colored varnishes, means for cuticles and removing old varnish coatings, hand creams and manicure sets.

Another thing is that most of the things described, except perhaps the last one, are consumables and come to an end regularly, and here you in one fell swoop remove this problem for a long time.

• DIY kit. Such things are usually given to a child who is not alien to creativity. For him now professional goods are not needed, he only tries himself in different arts - so give him the opportunity to try himself in everything. Most often, they start with sketchbooks and various tools for the same occupation - markers, pencils, paints. Please note that different devices need different paper, so don't be limited to one album.

• Sending from afar. And this is a purely customized gift, which usually includes food products in souvenir packaging - chocolate, tea and other similar trifles. Most often, such components must be original in terms of recipes and have a natural origin.

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