What is the best small present you have ever received?

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What's the best smallish present you've ever received ?

Mine was from DH, it is a heated blanket 😍

I didn't mean any offence 🙂
I clicked on the thread out of curiosity.
Answers seem to be more what I would consider small gifts (chopsticks, fold up bags, mini hairbrush etc).
A heated blanket isn't a small gift compared to those (in my personal opinion).
As I said....no offence was meant.

Just what I came to say! 😁

Google Zazzy bands - I love mine!

It's smallish.

I just didn't want people to be "ohhh a 54 day trip around the world" or "my Lamborghini" etc 😁

Mostly to help inspire other people for stuff they never knew they needed 😊😊

It’s called a Zazzy band

One Christmas my mother gave me a little wooden apple and inside she had put a tiny porcelain angel. I just love it.

Also my best friend often pops little notebooks in with presents that I always find useful for shopping lists.

Best was definitely a small leather bookmark in the shape of a kangaroo that a client brought me back from their holiday in Australia about 40 years ago! I still use it daily. A massive surprise as she was basically "just" a client, rather than a friend, but still someone I'd known for several years, but as a client. Never previously bought me a gift, I'd never bought her a gift. But we'd previously discussed how I was an avid reader and she'd obviously "thought of me" in a Aus gift shop when she saw them! Sometimes it's the simple/cheap things that mean more, especially when completely unexpected.

Another time was when a client bought me a wax candle seal kit with my initial, so that I could "stamp" my initial into the molted wax. Again, cheap and simple, but very thoughtful. Same scenario, we weren't really "friends" but again, she'd been a client for years, and it was back in the dark ages when accountants used wax seals/ribbons for securing documents together. If there wasn't an "official seal", i.e. for limited companies, it was common to use a gold signet ring (big flat head) to flatten the wax. This client had seen me do it with my ring, and must have remembered that when she saw the wax seal initial "kits" in a shop somewhere and just appeared at the office door one day to hand it to me. I used it for years and still have it in my desk even though I can't remember the last time we used a wax seal and ribbon!

It really is the little things that matter - it's the "thought" that counts.

Faberge egg.

Mine are all kitchen themed, oddly. A friend got me some wooden toaster tongs from Lakeland - so simple and so brilliant. My children gave me my favourite porcelain mug - it has "Mum" on it and is the perfect size for my morning cuppa. And one Christmas, my husband put a heavy duty Kuhn Rikon garlic press in my stocking which rapidly became my all-time favourite kitchen gadget - ridiculously expensive for a mere garlic press but honestly one of the best presents I've ever had!

One Christmas I was making a trifle to take to a family meal but couldn’t find a nice trifle bowl in my budget so just did it in a plain Pyrex. For Valentines that year my husband gave me a beautiful crystal bowl he got for £7 from a charity shop, he had been keeping his eye out for me. I love it and I love making a trifle in it 😄

Greggs and coffee shop vouchers.

Frexinet set with two glasses and two mini bottles of fizz. My DH bought me this for my birthday during lockdown.

My then eight-year-old gave me a mug for my birthday, and it’s the perfect mug — beautiful , the perfect size, lovely to handle and drink out of. I’ve tried to buy another against the day it smashes, but it was from a pop-up shop in an old mill that has long since closed down!