The Gastown Guide To Secret Santa Gifts
Finding a good secret Santa gift is about as stressful as performing open-heart surgery. There’s this crazy societal pressure to get the gift just right. You don’t want to phone it in with some lame, uninspired gift, because then your friends will assume you don’t care about them.
However, there’s usually a set dollar limit of say, $35 tops, and anyone who goes over that amount is usually regarded as the holiday tool-bag for making everyone else in the group feel guilty for actually staying within the fixed budget that we all agreed upon last week, Thomas!
… Anyway, to help take some of that surgical-like stress out of your Holiday Season, we’ve compiled a list of the best Secret Santa options that Gastown has to offer.
For your friend who loves fancy tea.
KINTO
UNITEA TEAPOT
$30 @ Orling & Wu
For your friend who never grew up.
RAINCOST BOOKS
MAKE YOUR OWN ROBOT
$34.95 @ Orling & Wu
For your friend who loves old whiskey but hates waiting.
BARREL AGED SPIRITS KIT
$24.95 @ Old Faithful Shop
For your friend who never, ever brings a bottle opener to the party.
KEY BOTTLE OPENER
$15.95 @ Old Faithful Shop
For your friend whose head always be cold.
HAT C10
$16.80 @ OAK + FORT
For your friend whose hands always be cold.
UPSTATE STOCK
NAVY MELANGE RAGG WOOL FULL GLOVES
$32 @ NIFTYDO
For your friend who brings their iPad everywhere.
MATT & NAT
VERVE iPAD SLEEVE
$38 @ EGO CLOSET
For your friend who owns a set of keys, but has the attention span of a newborn kitten.
TRADITIONAL NAUTICAL KEYCHAIN
$9 @ Neighbour
For your friend who doesn’t do Mondays.
HUF
COFFEE MUG
$28 @ Livestock
For your friend who always has a new Tinder date.
REAL TALK QUESTIONS
$35 @ Kit and Ace
For your groovy friend.
KUUMBA
CLEAR INSENCE HOLDER
$30 @ Haven
For your bearded friend who likes their apartment to smell of rich mahgonany.
PROSPECTOR CO.
BURROUGHS FLAME
$35 @ 18th Amendment
