Gwen's Gift Guide
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Shopping for gifts can be tricky, frustrating, and time consuming! Especially around the winter holidays when finding gifts often for multiple recipients. There's no shortage of Gift Guides to try to help source gifts, but those too can be overwhelming with different guides for each purpose, loads of ads, and not great options. So I've compiled 45 gifts across 15 categories that are sure to cover and please a variety of recipients. All inspired by travel, but can be used in everyday life. Mostly under $100 USD, from small businesses, gender-neutral, and good for stocking stuffers too! Happy Shopping!
Travel
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A Passport Holder and Luggage Tag make great Travel Accessories and Gifts to protect that precious passport and luggage. The ones above from Graphic Image are made in the US using high quality leather and available in several colors and can be personalized.
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This hand bound travel journal can be completely customized with names, sayings, map, color, and pages. The book comes with colored pencils to fill in the states or countries visited. It also has an option to add a slip case to better protect the book.
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This bag from Paravel folds into a compact case as a great item to keep in your luggage to use for any items purchased on the trip or as a personal item or weekend bag. It's also super light weight at 12oz and comes in black too.
Wanderlust
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Based out of Miami, Vacation Inc. makes "the world's best smelling sunscreen" with a brand embracing 80's summer culture. Vacation Inc. captured their signature scent in this eau de toilette, so you can smell like vacation all year long. Their sunscreen is available in a travel size here and face mist here. Also available through Amazon here.
Wish I Was Here showcases top travel accounts and blogs illustrating paradise on earth around water. Whether thinking about a trip or longing for sun and sand, this book is where daydreams begin.
Created by a young couple, who loves to travel, this deck of cards was designed to create unique memories to enhance the travel experience. This deck of 50 cards includes a travel challenge and inspirational quote on each one.
Experience
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A boat ride makes a great experience and gift. City Experiences has you covered with multiple options in major cities across the US, Canada, Europe and Australia. Whether it be on a lake or river, for brunch, lunch or dinner, fireworks or architecture tour, City Experiences offers it all.
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Custom Scratch Off Boarding Pass
This boarding pass can be completely customized for the occasion, recipient, date, etc. with the destination concealed under a gold scratch off for the big reveal. What better gift than surprising someone with a trip!?
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Tinggly offers access to thousands of experiences around the world. They offer experiences at multiple price points ranging from essentials to once in a lifetime and for various occasions. So check it out to give stories, not stuff.
Exploration
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A compass is a great sentimental gift symbolic of safety and protection, as well as motivation and inspiration directing the user where to go. This brass compass is particularly special, because it can not only be personalized with a saying, but also with handwriting or pictures.
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Invoke exploration with this cool The World Is Your Oyster art available in a variety of sizes to ship (not print). Does not come with frame.
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This cork globe with stainless steel base is a great gift for the world traveler to track and display places visited. It's available in 3 sizes to choose from to serve as a great addition to a desk, dresser or shelf without taking up much room. Also available in white here and to color in the places visited here.
Outdoors
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The Cliq chair is a portable chair that packs into the size of a water bottle, weighs 3.65 lbs, and holds 300 lbs. Perfect for outdoor adventures at the park or beach or wherever you want to sit. Easily compacts to toss in a bag and go.
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This BioLite USB chargeable lantern projects a variety of colors and themes to create different moods. It comes in two sizes and lasts 5 hours. All sales contribute towards BioLite's mission of creating clean, renewable energy.
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Lucyd Lyte Bluetooth Sunglasses
These bluetooth sunglasses from Lucyd can take calls and listen to audio with voice activation features to use hands free, all while shielding eyes from the sun with UV400 polarized lenses. Available in different colors and styles.
Winter Sports
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These ear warmer headbands available at Free People come in two sayings and designs for the Ski Bum and Après Ski lover to be stylish while keeping your ears warm. Free People has a whole collection of ski clothing and accessories to cover all your ski attire.
Co-founded by Olympic Gold Medalist and World Alpine Ski Champion Ted Ligety, Shred provides protective gear for cold weather sports. These Shred goggles focus on function first that provides a wide field of vision with top lens technology.
These North Face gloves keep hands warm through the cold weather with three layers of insulation and lined with super-soft, high-pile fleece. They also have touchscreen functionality, clip to hold together, and drawstring to tighten. Women's fit featured below. Men's fit here. and Child's fit here. Available in different colors and sizes.
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Pictures
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A high quality leather picture frame is a nice gift to showcase a special moment. Graphic Image has a variety of sizes, colors and textures to choose from made in the US using top quality leather.
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This fun, retro Kodak camera instantly prints high-quality 2" x 3" photos with an adhesive back to stick onto a travel journal or wherever you like. The resolution is up to 10 MP and is compact to fit in a pocket or bag. There's also another version with less features here, a set, and photo paper here.
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A quality, leather photo album is a great gift to display photos from travels or everyday life. Graphic Image has albums in 3 sizes, multiple colors, and textures to choose from that can be personalized.
Reading
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1,000 Places to See Before You Die
This leather bound version of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die is a great gift for travelers to provide inspiration and ideas. It's complete with details on each place and also available in red leather. Paperback version available here.
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It's difficult to include a short list of travel books and not include Assouline's gorgeous coffee table travel books featuring some of the hottest destinations around the world. They're sure to serve as great decoration while providing travel inspiration and insight.
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This fourth edition of The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World created by Lonely Planet, includes details of when to visit, what to see and do, and how to learn more about the country’s culture from its film, music, food and drink.
Playing
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TableTopics: Destination Anywhere
Ignite conversations with 135 questions about travel and vacations to get to know the group better.
This portable Crosley Bluetooth Vinyl Record Player plays 33 1/3, 45, and 78 RPM records through the speakers or connect to bluetooth speakers. It can also stream music, so no records are actually required. It's lightweight at 5.5 pounds to take on the go and available in a variety of colors and designs. ​​
Vintage Book Game
Easily take board games with you with this vintage book board game. It's a compact way of storing the classic board games that doubles as chic decor for a book shelf. They have all the classics like Clue, Chess, Scrabble, Monopoly, Chutes & Ladders, Candyland, Sorry!, Scattergories, Taboo, Mystery Date!
Entertaining
After traveling the US and trying many drinks, author Brian Bartels created this book with pictures, recipes, and history of each state's cocktail contributions. This leather bound version can be personalized to create an even more special gift. Also available in hardcover here.
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Celebrate Everything! by Darcy Miller is the ultimate guide to making special occasions unforgettable packed with original ideas, including planning strategies, D.I.Y. craft projects, recipes, and insider sources and pro tips to help organize a variety of parties.
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Impress your guests or host with this top-notch charcuterie board from Boarderie. High-quality ingredients sourced from around the world arrive beautifully arranged in a reusable acacia wood serving tray with bamboo serving utensils. The boards can be refrigerated for up to 10 days and are available in a smaller size, bigger size, and without meat too.
Cooking
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This gift set features 5 mini bottles of different flavored infused organic olive oil from one vineyard in Puglia nicely packaged for a great gift. Or buy one big bottle of 100% extra virgin Italian olive oil by award-winning Frantoio Galantino in a hand-painted ceramic dispenser made by artisans in Puglia here.
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Taste the World without leaving your home with this cookbook that includes 1 recipe featuring a representative dish from each of the 192 countries. Or how about one using only ingredients from Trader Joe's available here.
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Gourmet World Flavors Seasoning
Add a taste of the World to dishes with these high quality, gourmet, non-GMO seasonings from Gustus Vitae out of Venice beach, CA. The spices are made using the best sustainably sourced, all-natural ingredients crafted in small batches by this small business. Plus the tins have magnets to stick to metal surfaces for easy access too. ​
Eating & Drinking
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Chocolates from Around the World
Sample chocolates from around the World where the cocoa bean is produced from French chocolatier Francois Pralus.
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In Good Taste created these mini bottles of wine to provide an approachable at home wine tasting. This Vine Voyage features wines inspired by Italy and France. They also offer an advent calendar to enjoy wine through December.
*Alcohol is only intended for those of legal drinking age.
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Give the gift of Wisconsin natural cheese with this gift set from Cheese Brothers. The deluxe gift set features all 8 of their unique flavors, including Fratello, dill havarti, smoked mozzarella, and 5 goudas: smoked, honey Sriacha, el diablo scorpion pepper, 3 amigos spicy, and mango habanero.
Relaxation
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Travel can be wearing on the body. Bringing along a compact massager may be the answer. This massager helps relieve minor pain, improve blood circulation, and relax after those long travel days.
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Hotel Lobby Candle was created by a former writer and editor for magazines like Town & Country and Vogue and inspired by her travels to over 60 countries. The candles come in a variety of scents to transport you to that place. Made with all-natural US soy wax, burn for 65 hours and beautifully packaged for a lovely gift.
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Good sleep is crucial for a good trip. Nodpod's weighted eye mask applies pressure to key points to help soothe and sink into deep, restful sleep. It's filled with BPA and scent-free micro beads that contour to your face.
Health & Wellness
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This compact travel kit from Pinch Provisions contains 18 items to come in handy for travel and everyday life too. It's available in a variety of colors and this green version that says "love this journey for you" and makes a great stocking stuffer.
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Hydration is so important, especially when traveling. Unfortunately, not everywhere has the same water quality, so this water bottle comes in handy to use UV LED sterilization technology to ensure water is safe to drink in 1 minute. The stainless steel 17 oz bottle is vacuum insulated and self-cleaning.
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Increase chances of staying healthy when traveling with this daily travel supplement from Co-Pilot. This plant-based gel tablet is made, in an FDA-regulated facility practicing GMP, using the ​highest-grade ingredients with 20 natural vitamins, nutrients & trace minerals to help with immune support, sleep, energy, digestion, stress management and mental clarity. Learn more about Co-Pilot on their website here. Link below to purchase through Amazon. ​
Children
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Be Our Guest! is Gray Malin's first children's picture book featuring his acclaimed photograph series at the Parker Palm Springs. The book is said to whisk children away on a temporary holiday that's nothing less than extraordinary.
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This fun, retro Kodak camera instantly prints high-quality 2" x 3" photos with an adhesive back to stick on stuff. Also available through Amazon here.
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Oh, the Places You'll Go! Book
This Dr. Seuss classic is child-friendly, but really good for all ages. From soaring to high heights and seeing great sights, Oh, the Places You'll Go! addresses life’s ups and downs, a perfect gift for anyone starting a new chapter in their life.