These adorable gingerbread house boxes can upgrade homemade treats to a polished gift.
Fill them with homemade ginger snaps, meringues or truffles. Fill out the tag, tie the red ribbon, and rally your office mates for a Secret Santa gift-swap.
Martha Stewart Crafts, on sale $5.99 for 6 boxes
Whenever I was invited to a birthday party as a child, my mom took me to Target and let me roam free to choose a gift in the $12 range (a price that didn’t seem arbitrary until now; I guess I figured this was a universal birthday-gift-giving-price). Problem was, I always came back with a gift I wanted for myself and I would be upset, and inexplicably shocked, to have to part with it.
So the story would continue, as an adult, with this wine thermometer. It clamps right onto a standard wine bottle and compares the bottle’s actual temperature against guidelines for chardonnay, pinot noir, and port, among others.
Best of all, it’s just $9.50. Enough money left to add a card (or a chocolate bar).