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Secret Santa Categories For 2023 Guaranteed to make you the Best Santa ever

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Christmas is a beautiful time to exchange gifts, and Secret Santa gift exchanges are the best. However, choosing the right category for the right person will surely make the gift even more valuable. We have shortlisted the popular categories to make shopping as a Secret Santa easier.

1. Hobbies and Interests

Find out the recipients’ hobbies and interests and choose your gift wisely.

Experience the delight of listening to CDs and frame the album art in a visually appealing manner. This device not only allows you to effortlessly insert a classic audio CD but also enables you to slide in its jacket for an enhanced visual experience. The device features a minimalist design with a frame for jacket art, a built-in battery for portability, and Bluetooth 5.0 for seamless connectivity with wireless speakers and earphones.

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FUSSBALLLIEBE’s innovation centers around Adidas’ Connected Ball Technology, a collaboration with Kinexon. This tech marvel includes a 500Hz IMU motion sensor, providing detailed insights into the ball’s movement, a first in football history. This real-time data not only enhances the accuracy and speed of in-match decisions but also integrates with UEFA’s semi-automated offside technology, marking a significant leap in the sport’s adjudication. The ball’s precision engineering, with a 20-piece panel shape and deboss grooves for airflow control, ensures consistent play and maximum accuracy, supported by the CTR-CORE for shape and air retention.

2. Tech Gadgets

Useful tech gadgets like phone stands, wireless chargers, mice, quirky USB devices, and headphones cannot go wrong.

Though owls delivering mail is fiction, birds, especially pigeons, were once used to carry messages due to their homing instincts, providing a swift alternative when using humans on horseback was too perilous. The USB thumb drive concept is inspired by this imagery, blending whimsical design with practicality. In the age of the cloud, storing files on a USB flash drive remains efficient and secure. Instant data access is guaranteed by plugging it into your device, and its physical nature ensures exclusive access. Technological advancements have led to the availability of 1TB flash drives, albeit as a luxury for a few.

Stay connected globally with this clever world clock. Just roll the 12-sided clock to see the correct time in major cities like London, Paris, New York, and more. Its minimalist design and simple operation add a fun, tactile touch to timekeeping. Perfect for any desk or shelf, it’s available in black and white.

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3. Self-Care Items

This is a pure indulgence that promotes relaxation, like self-care, scented candles, and bath and body products.

Imagine a spa gift basket that includes all the essentials for a woman’s relaxation! It could feature items such as a Shower Gel, Bubble Bath, Body Scrub, Body Oil, 2 Large Bath Bombs, Bath Salt, and a luxurious Bath Towel. Presented in a beautifully wrapped handmade basket, it’s the perfect indulgence.

4. Office Supplies

If a budget-friendly option is preferred, the best choice is to go for office supplies like notebooks, pens, and desk organizers.

Avoid the frustration of losing your keys by consistently placing them in one designated spot. This organizer features a magnetic rotating mechanism that simplifies the process of stashing your belongings, eliminating the need to recall later where you left your wallet. Offering ample storage and a lid that doubles as a tray, it accommodates both your pocket essentials and everyday carry tools. With a sleek design crafted from durable aluminum and warm beech wood, this functional organizer is available in both Black and White color options.

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Indulge in hands-free reading with a bookmark designed to keep your book open, eliminating the need for unsightly solutions like using unattractive weights on both sides. Shaped like a book, this paperweight features perfect curves that preserve your reading material without causing damage to its spine. Its transparent acrylic resin construction allows you to continue reading while your hands stay occupied with other tasks, and it also provides protection against accidental smudges on the pages.

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5. Food and Drink

Everyone adores gourmet chocolates, specialty teas, or coffees, and even a personalized mug can create a delightful surprise.

Celebrate the holiday season in style with a Christmas Hamper—a truly festive and exquisite gift. Go for a wicker basket with timeless delights, including festive marmalade, a traditional Christmas pudding paired with brandy butter, chocolates, wines, and a bottle of Champagne to raise a toast to the joyous season and the moments ahead.

Drinking is typically a routine, but it doesn’t have to be monotonous. The HMM Mugr, made from Japanese ceramic and wood for the handle, offers a Zen vibe with its earthy design. Resembling cast iron, its humble appearance has a calming effect on the eyes, providing a smooth and cool texture for a delightful sipping experience. This mug is the perfect companion for a tranquil break in the midst of a busy day.

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6. Funny or Quirky Gifts

Why not inject a sense of humor into your gift?

The Vinterfint advent calendar reveals an adorable Christmas scene with Santa, snowmen, and nativity goats, accompanied by decked-up Christmas trees and countryside-roofed houses against a snowy landscape. Lift each paper element to discover a daily sweet treat, including chocolates like pralines, nougats, and truffles. Designed by IKEA’s Paulin Machado, it serves as a holiday arts and crafts kit, providing all you need to create a festive winter landscape with Christmas trees and snowmen.

7. Plants or Succulents

Opt for thoughtful and eco-friendly gifts by incorporating a small potted plant or succulent into your present.

Phone cases are typically made of plastic due to cost, durability, and longevity. However, iGreen Gadgets breaks this norm with a 100% compostable case crafted from cornstarch, a common biodegradable substance. The cases are not only eco-friendly but also protective, ensuring your iPhone’s safety. What sets them apart is the inclusion of living seeds within a water-soluble film. Once the case is no longer needed, planting it in a pot allows it to transform into plants within weeks, offering a creative and sustainable solution to discarded phone accessories.

8. DIY and Handmade Gifts

Try homemade treats like cookies or cupcakes, and experiment with crafting a knitted scarf this Christmas.

9. Travel Accessories

Just consider travel accessories for someone who likes to travel!

The 38L Hybrid Duffle Pack is not your average backpack; it’s entirely carbon neutral, utilizing materials that eliminate waste and strengthen the fabric with CO2 captured from the atmosphere. Constructed from 123 recycled plastic bottles, it’s 100% storm-proof, endorsed by explorer Ed Stafford, and seamlessly transitions between backpack, side-strap, and duffle modes for all scenarios and weather conditions.

10. Fitness and Wellness

Let your gift promote a healthy lifestyle.

Experience a tranquil day with an essential oil diffuser that diffuses aromas gently. Designed to prevent overwhelming scents, it operates with a rechargeable battery for up to two weeks, allowing cable-free placement anywhere. Its minimalist look complements its functionality, and cleaning is hassle-free – simply rinse the porcelain filter under running water.

Available in Silver, Black, and Gold base options, this diffuser combines ease of use with stress-free maintenance.

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Inhaling salt-infused air has health benefits, creating a protective mucous layer in airways that traps dust, toxins, and viruses. Salt air, known for its calming effect, mimics the relaxation experienced at the beach. The antimicrobial nature of salty air helps combat allergies and enhances immunity. While salt breathing indoors is rare, the Salt Stone offers a solution by dispersing salt into the air, recreating the beach atmosphere.

Don’t forget to be your own ‘SECRET SANTA’

While buying gifts for others, don’t forget to pamper yourself with that expensive gift you’ve wanted—an artisanal product for your home that you’ve longed for. Unique, handmade home decor items, such as pottery, wall mirrors, artwork, or a custom-made piece of furniture.

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Dwarf Factory’s ArtiSANTA Keycaps Are an Excellent Stocking Stuffer

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It’s only been a week since Halloween! What’re all these Christmas (and other related holiday decorations) doing on my neighbor’s front lawn? Where did the summer go, for crying out loud? If I have no choice but to accept the season’s greetings, I’ll do it my own way: by replacing a few keycaps on my gaming keyboard with three miniature snow globes containing all the typical Yuletide treasures. That’s the idea behind Dwarf Factory’s latest invention, anyway. These ArtiSANTA keycaps from Dwarf Factory are bright, festive, and adorable — all traits any true gamer would want their gaming keyboard to have, as the weather turns cold and the holiday cheer turns… uh… warm.

Designer: Dwarf Factory

The AntiSANTA keycaps are not exactly compatible with every keyboard on the market. At least, it doesn’t seem so, given what’s advertised on their store page. But as long as you have a clicky, tactile, or linear keyboard with Cherry MX switches, you should be alright. You can stick these three keycaps anywhere on your keyboard you’d like, giving it a handmade decorative flair — befitting a festive ornament that looks like it belongs on your tree. Or on your mantle. Or, anywhere else you might stick festive holiday decorations.

These handmade keycaps come in packs of three, and each one is a little bit different. There’s the Yule Tree, the Père Noel (basically, Santa Claus), and Frosty the Snowman. Look closely enough, you’ll see how each piece features a handful of intricate details, like ornamental string lights and miniature holiday gifts. It’s disappointing there are only three per pack, but that’s just because they look so good.

If you’re shopping for the gamer in your life, these are only going for $49 per pack, and that’s a holiday miracle if there ever was one. They’re perfect for stocking stuffers or even just trinkets to have around in a gaming room. Now if only the holidays would get here sooner (so we can get back to that summer weather much sooner).

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Santa Frozen in Carbonite Christmas Tree Ornament: Brought to You by Jabba the Humbug

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Because no holiday decorating is complete without a casual Star Wars theme, Tree Buddees has created this Santa Frozen in Carbonite Christmas tree ornament (affiliate link). The ornament features everyone’s favorite jolly gift-bringer frozen and on display, presumably to be admired by Jabba the Humbug in his palace.

The ornament measures 3.5″ x 2″, making it “the perfect size for any Christmas Tree.” So if you were wondering what Charlie Brown’s tree was missing, it was this ornament. I wonder how many people out there have trees decorated with ONLY Star Wars ornaments? My guess is more than you’d think.

Is Mrs. Claus going to stage a rescue operation to free Santa and ensure Christmas isn’t ruined for all the kids this year? I sure hope so, and not just because I have a Porsche 911 GT3 on the top of my list, and I was actually good this year. Okay, I was fair. Fair to poor. I was awful, as usual.

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The Santasizer: 11 Synchronized Synthesized Dancing Santas

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Crafted by musical mad scientist Sam Battle of Youtube channel Look Mum No Computer, the Santasizer isn’t an antibacterial hand gel to help keep the coronavirus at bay, but eleven dancing Santa toys from the 90’s connected to a synthesizer that reacts to the input being played through them. Fingers crossed, my company booked them for this year’s holiday party!

In the video, Sam and the Santas perform a funky rendition of the Christmas classic ‘God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,’ complete with all the Santas’ sunglasses moving up and down as they bob to the beat. I only wish I could dance that well, then maybe people wouldn’t point and laugh so much when I hit the dance floor, usually with my head or face.

Now Sam just needs to install lasers in all of Santa’s eyes, so whenever they lift their sunglasses, they produce a laser light show, and he’s got himself a Christmas concert I would pay to go see! Not that I’m not excited to go see my nieces and nephews sing a bunch of carols off-key, there’s just always a very noticeable lack of laser beams.

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Santa and Reindeer Flying Drone: Ho-Ho-Hovercraft

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Clearly unafraid to utilize the latest in flying technology, Santa is experimenting with delivering presents this year via a drone disguised as his sleigh and reindeer. Available from Firebox, the Flying Santa Drone is a radio-controlled drone featuring the likeness of Santa and four of his reindeer. I can already see myself flying it straight into the Christmas tree and breaking fragile ornaments.

The drone itself has an onboard rechargeable battery, and after installing three AAA batteries in the remote controller, you’re ready to ho-ho-hover to your heart’s content! At least until the drone’s battery is drained and you have to wait to recharge it. That’s when it’s time to take a snack break or play with the box it came in.

So – have you been good this year? Good enough to make Santa’s nice list? Because according to an elf friend of mine on the inside at Santa’s workshop, I have not been. I didn’t even make the naughty list; I made the sub-naughty list. I didn’t even know there was such a thing! I assume Santa is just going to come down my chimney to beat me up.

Santa’s sleigh gets a massive upgrade with this jet-powered Renault Sport!

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Spoiler Alert: Just like Santa, this car/sleigh is conceptual…

Say hello to the Santa Sleigh R.S., a work of Paris-based designer Alexandre Ferra. The idea that Santa would still rely on reindeer to pull his sleigh along with all those gifts seems antiquated and a tad bit cruel, so Ferra decided that Santa’s ride needed a well-deserved upgrade. The Santa Sleigh R.S. (short for Renault Sport) comes with an incredibly long design, and obviously ditches the wheels for more snow-friendly runners. I’m not entirely sure its elongated design would have enough cabin space for all those gifts, but it surely is big enough for the man in red to sit comfortably. Cruising across the entire world would need incredible amounts of visibility, and while the Santa Sleigh R.S. doesn’t sport an open-top, it comes with a panoramic windshield that stretches all the way from the front, across the sides, and to the back.

Designed clearly for a modern age, the sleigh sports a beautiful metallic automotive finish, and what I presume is a jet-based propulsion system on the inside. Why else would the sleigh have two massive thrusters on the back? After all, Father Christmas has to cover the entire earth in a span of just 24 hours…

Designer: Alexandre Ferra