£20 SS generic gift (for family)

[summerlovingvibes]

Each year we do a "wider family" SS (aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews etc) and exchange on our family day.

Generic gift ideas needed, £20 limit that caters for all ages and genders. Ideas before have been things like Chilli water bottles / flasks, candles, cook book stand and recipe book, novels, giant baseball bat pepper grinder etc.

Anyone?

A game
Snuggly blanket
Small hamper

If they are the type to like them, for £20 you can get some great small format board games or escape games.

Nothing helpful to suggest but your examples made me laugh... candles, cook book stand, water bottle.... GIANT BASEBALL BAT

Waterstones voucher

I want a giant baseball bat!

Couldn't you turn it into secret Santa (we use the Elfster app) or have a theme? To avoid all the waste of generic stuff. Otherwise I'd probably get something like this with some biscuits

www.lakeland.co.uk/73719/lakeland-hot-chocolate-assortment-with-toppings

Haha, it was a giant baseball bat pepper grinder... so looks like a bat but is a kitchen utensil, probably more one for outdoor BBQs etc!

Cole & Mason King Pepper Mill, Brown amzn.eu/d/iI5ZZ9r

Just looked it up - so much more than a few years ago!

No, we all do it where about 20 of us meet up, parcels in the middle, take turns to pick something then can twist or stick" with the item and hope others don't "steel it" when it's their turn.
It's a great laugh, and we love doing it this way. Brings about a lot of conversation!

Fake oodie would be good.

O this is the best thing ever. It would be so perfect for my pepper addict. But dam I can’t justify that price.

A mini hamper ... I make up my own but something like this...

www.amazon.co.uk/Sweet-Treats-Mini-Gift-Hamper/dp/B08MZ32Z7P/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=Mini+Hampers&qid=1667472377&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI2LjAwIiwicXNhIjoiNS40MCIsInFzcCI6IjQuOTcifQ%3D%3D&sr=8-7

Garden solar lights
sofa arm side tray
big box of cadburys or chocs
seed Sets
personalise bauball
flavoured oils
posh sweet spreads
apron
big box of donuts or cakes
fubky pants or boxers
set of mugs
vase
reading light
head torch

Thanks everyone - Ive looked through some of your suggestions and provisionally booked something!

Not booked - bought! Tired newborn baby brain here. Have added an item to my basket which I'd be happy to buy :) Thanks all, that's one item ticked off my list :)

I struggle to think of any generic thing suitible for a newborn, 30 year old mam of 3 and 90 year old man lol.

I think a game might be the safest option, one with a wide age range and that doesnt require excersize (jenga more than twister lol).

We did a ‘twist or stick’ SS while staying with DS’s family in Brazil. The most lusted after item was an electric kettle. Rare in Brazil, one of the family brought it from the UK.

We also took some bath bombs as extra gifts. Slightly puzzled reception for these, most Brazilian homes, even posh ones, have showers and not baths.

We did a ‘twist or stick’ SS while staying with DS’s family in Brazil. The most lusted after item was an electric kettle. Rare in Brazil, one of the family brought it from the UK.

We also took some bath bombs as extra gifts. Slightly puzzled reception for these, most Brazilian homes, even posh ones, have showers and not baths.

Sorry about duplicate post we are at seas with dodgy WIFI, I thought it hadn’t loaded,

This sounds a lot of fun @summerlovingvibes. Do you wrap the presents and stick or twist with a wrapped gift? Or stick/twist once everything is opened? I might suggest this for our family gathering.

It works well because we are a family of around 20 people and it just got so ridiculous doing presents. So now it's more a a token / game!

We all put our wrapped presents down when others aren't looking so no one identifies the wrapping. We decide who goes first (sometimes oldest / youngest / anyone with a special occasion recently etc) . First person picks a present that they fancy the look of, opens & keeps or exchanges with a different one. But that one they have to keep. Next person can either then "steal" first persons, or pick their own to open. So basically as you go round, each person can take someone else's (in which case empty handed person gets a new one from the middle) or chose their own and if they like it hope it doesn't get taken.

Because of the variety of people and the amount, there's normally something for everyone. We only have 2 kids in the family (will be 3 next year and likely more each year after that), but at present they are excluded - they get their own gift. Therefore just adult ideas.

Things that have gone down well in previous years - books, cheese board & knives, other kitchen "gadgets", generic colour cashmere scarf, pic frames, puzzle, board game etc

It has saved loads of stress the last few years of present buying and it also doesn't matter how many people ho because if you don't put in then you don't get out (occasionally a couple of the grumpy bah humbug husbands don't put in / take out (because they're not organised enough to sort in time!))

We play this but call it "game of sixes" because we put all the stuff on the table unwrapped, then take it in turns to throw a dice. If you throw a six, you can take a present from the main pile or from someone else. We set a timer and when it goes off, you keep.what you've got. So some people might have 3 things and someone else nothing.

We do it instead of stockings as our dc are adults, so small value stuff - chocolate, gloves, books, etc.

It's good fun, and at the end people usually share out so no ones left without.

We once did it at a children's party when the kids had got too old for pass the parcel. I don't remember exactly how I did it, but we changed the rules so that everyone definitely got something. It was a great hit.

wind up torch
hot water bottle
thermal travel mug
microfibre travel towel