It’s a few days until Christmas and Hanukkah start, so there are only a few days left to click or shop or both before the wrapping and gifting begins! And there’s time for one last gift guide, including our annual Reading Time Gift Certificates!
If you are just joining us here, previously on the 2016 SBTB Gift Guide, we featured:
- Bookish and wonderful gift ideas.
- Fuzzy and soft items for comfort and self-care
- Creative ideas for all your crafty friends and family
- An assortment of unique items and cozy, adorable housewares
- Amanda’s sexxytimes gift guide
- Tempting tech and handbag gifts
- Subscription options from magazines to boxes to gifts of Amazon Prime
Ready for a few more ideas? As always, we have our Smart Bitches Reading Time Gift Certificates in convenient printable PDF format (righteth-click-and-saveth-as!) for your gifting needs.
You can pair these with hot chocolate and a mug, chocolates and cookies, a fuzzy blanket, or a pair of noise-canceling headphones – whatever suits the recipient. The certificates are backed by the full faith and mayhem of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and we hope whoever receives them has excellent books to read. BOOKS! Obviously. You can easily pair these with books or a bookstore gift card.
AND SPEAKING OF. You can easily get a gift card to your local independent bookstore, or find a romance friendly bookstore on our collaborative map. And of course, you can always purchase an online gift certificate to The Ripped Bodice, most excellent and romance-exclusive bookstore in the US. They ship all over the place. (Ahoy, disclosure: we backed their Kickstarter because OBVIOUSLY.)
You can also find gift cards to damn near everything damn near everywhere. My local post office branch has a kiosk of them, and Hubby went to Walgreens only to be astounded by the unlimited options for gift-card-gifting. (Hubby: “A gift card to Taco Bell?” Me: “It’s 4:20 somewhere.”)
But there is still shipping time, especially if you’ve got Amazon Prime. Heck, they have a two-hour Amazon Prime NOW (I can only picture Veruca Salt saying that: Amazon Prime NOW!) where things arrive on the designated porch within in two hours.
It’s only available in select metro areas, but if you qualify, there’s a coupon, of course: $10 off your first Veruca Salt Prime NOW order with code 10PRIMENOW.
The Kindle Paperwhite in white or black is $99.99, down from around $120.
The basic model Kindle Fire 7″ tablet is only $40, down from $49.
And my go-to gift because really there’s bloody everything there, the Amazon Gift Cards are available with free next-day shipping via Prime. If you purchase one for more than $25, you can pick a really cute box or tin for it to come in, too.
I just found this page, too: Amazon stocks gift cards for all sorts of stores, both plastic and digital via email, and has frequent $10 off deals, too. This just made my shopping a lot easier!
But, much like the Smart Bitches Reading Time certificates, I often think presents that center around time and care are some of the nicest gifts to receive. A small treat, edible or non-edible, can be paired with a certificate for a certain amount of child care, a trip to the movies, or time alone – hang on….
I think Introverting TimeGift Cards are an idea whose time has come, right? (Right click and save as, please!)
What are your go-to last minute gifts? Any presents of time or space (or both!) that you valued?
Whatever your holiday giving entails, we all wish you a wonderful, warm, and book-filled holiday!
Homemade candy barks. Simple, tasty and pretty. Melt to gift tin in an hour. It’s what the neighbors are getting. Because I am DONE with all the baking. Oh, they’ll get their Christmas morning cinnamon coffee cake, but then the Kitchen Aid and I are going to need some time apart. For both our sakes.
I just made some salt scrubs – I have no idea why they’re so expensive, they’re super easy and pretty cheap to make. I started making them because I’m allergic to a lot of fragrances, but everyone was so jealous, I realized it makes a great gift. I’m thinking of trying to make some of those bath bomb things too.
I used to do a cookie extravaganza (if you make 12 kinds, a sampler of 2 dozen looks so pretty!) but apparently I get a little crazed on the third straight day of eating nothing but cookie dough – and bacon, because bacon fat cookies leaves me with 3 lbs of left over bacon, and what could possibly go wrong with eating 3 lbs of bacon? So I’ve been forbidden. But it was always enormously popular with everyone who didn’t have to share a kitchen with me.
For book club tonight and other friends who might like them, I’ve made Safe Place pins. I bought large quilting safety pins and added decorative beads; some disassembly and reassembly of the pin required, but I figured it out and put many leftover and colorful beads to good use.
I spent hours at B&N yesterday, ostensibly choosing I-Can-Read books for two fledgling readers. I have forgotten, because I read digital books exclusively, how much wonder and magic still exist in bookstores. That was a welcome and unexpected gift for myself.
I made nutterscotchies candy for our delivery people. We rely on deliveries here on the farm. Melt 12 oz. each of Butterscotch chips and Semi-Sweet chips in the microwave for one minute, adding 20 second increments until smooth. Stir in 8 oz. lightly salted peanuts and place in small cupcake wrappers or candy cups. I use my mini-cupcake tins. Put in a cool place to firm up and then pack ’em up! I think the recipe came from a Hallmark magazine back in the day. You get 30 or more candy cups in minutes.
I’ve bought Amazon gift cards, printed them out and attached them to handwritten lists of book recommendations with explanations of why the recipient would like the book before. If you were really short on money, you could easily do that with anything free: podcasts etc.
@Dangerfield: what a great idea!
Bacon fat cookies are a thing?!? Off to Google!
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