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3 Quick Tips for Thoughtful Christmas Gifts This Season

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Tis the season for celebrating all the wonderful people in your life, and tis the season for presenting your special ones with Christmas gifts! Whether gifting for a Christmas lover or a Christmas Grinch (there’s typically one in every tribe), you can boost their spirit with some extra-thoughtful Christmas gift ideas this year.

Wondering where to get started? Our gifting gurus live and breathe Christmas year-round and we have created this quick guide as a perfect place to gain some helpful tips for creating your list of thoughtful Christmas gifts.

Whether you get the opportunity to physically connect with loved ones this year, or are just planning to catch up online, our list for thoughtful Christmas gift ideas has tips for gifts of all kinds. Email, snail-mail, or Santa sleigh-delivered; find plenty of thoughtful Christmas gift inspiration right here.

 

Here’s 3 Quick Tips to Help Plan a Thoughtful Christmas Gift List

#1 Start Your List

The most important place to start a Christmas gift list is to plan the recipients on your gift list. Once you have your list of recipients sorted, you can then get started on working through thoughtful Christmas gift ideas for each of them.

* Tip: to help plan an amazing Christmas gift list, take a look at some of our helpful Christmas gift articles and tips.

 

#2 Gift Recipient Wants, Needs and Likes

You are probably very familiar with your gift recipients by name and personality; after all, they have made your Christmas list. Now it is important to delve a little deeper and find out what each of these people really needs, could do with, or wants as a gift for Christmas. If you need a bit of help, you could ask other friends and family members for some gift ideas as well. They might have more intel to share with you.

If you are struggling to source information, we always try to think of some thoughtful Christmas gift ideas that we could make use of throughout the year. Is there anything that you usually put off buying for yourself, above others? Would your gift recipient be happy with something similar?

To help spark your flow of ideas, below are thoughtful Christmas gift examples that might help get you started. You can piece together some of these gift ideas as a lovely Christmas gift hamper. The Christmas Cart stocks a great range of personalised keepsake boxes and personalised gift boxes that are ideal for this purpose.

Add some crumpled tissue paper, shredded paper filling, or imitation winter snow as a neat little home to place the rest of the goodies into.

You might also like to take a look at our DIY Christmas Hamper Package, which is packed with everything you need for the perfect Christmas hamper arrangement – just add gifts!

Pick and choose from some of the following items, depending on your budget and the demographic of your intended recipient.

Thoughtful Christmas Gift Idea – for a Homeowner

Thoughtful Christmas Gift Idea – for a Couple

Thoughtful Christmas Gift Idea – for a Female Friend or Mum

  • personalised wine or cocktail glass
  • a piccolo of wine
  • chocolates or some homemade Christmas treats
  • a face mask or foot spa treatment
  • a quality nail file and hand cream
  • a bathtub caddy/tray
  • strawberry seeds with a ceramic planter pot (to go hand-in-hand with the chocolate and wine)
  • hair brush and hair accessories

Thoughtful Christmas Gift Idea – for a Male Friend or Dad

  • Bunnings voucher or a voucher to another hardware/handyman store
  • a personalised glass or mug
  • homemade Christmas treats
  • some bottles of craft beer or tea/coffee infusions
  • silly socks
  • lotto ticket or scratch-it

#3 The Outside Counts Too – Present It Perfectly

Presentation can often be just as important as the gift inside, especially when we are talking about thoughtful Christmas gifts. Make the effort to create an air of importance with attention to detail given to your gift wrapping as well.

For plenty of inspiration, please see our articles, ‘all wrapped up on Christmas wrapping and ‘make an impact with beautifully presented Christmas gifts’, where you will find lots of thoughtful Christmas gift wrapping ideas. Some of the savvy ideas that feature in these articles include using our lovely Santa sacks and boxes as part of your gift wrapping.

Christmas is a time for giving. Make your gift giving extra special this year with unique, personalised and thoughtful Christmas gifts from The Christmas Cart. Discover the wide range of Christmas gifts and keepsakes in our online store.