20 useful gifts that no one would buy for themselves

Perhaps the most underrated gift category? Gifts your recipient didn’t know they needed.

As The Atlantic cited in 2014, many gifts fall flat because the giver focused too much on sentimentality and not enough on practicality. In fact, the gifts people prefer seem to be the ones that are the easiest to use. 

But sometimes those gifts are boring as hell, right? There’s a reason that socks — while wonderful — are the stereotypical “bad gift.”

But practical and lovely don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Here are 20 gifts that are both useful and beautiful — and, most importantly, that no one is likely to buy for themselves. Read more…

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