🎄 The Christmas Gift Checklist

42 real gifts with real prices, grouped by who you're buying for — starting with everything under $25. Tick what you want as you go; your list saves automatically.

🇦🇺 In Australia? Use the Aussie list instead — summer Christmas, AUD prices, Kris Kringle.

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Christmas prices move, in both directions. These were checked on one day in August, and between Black Friday and mid-December the same products get discounted, marked back up and sold out — sometimes all three. Treat every figure here as a guide and tap through for today's price. Anything over $100 is worth putting on a wishlist as a group gift rather than carrying alone.
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From giftgiving.fun/christmas-gift-checklist.html — tick online, or turn it into a free gift registry.

Keep track of who you've bought for 🛍️

By the second week of December nobody remembers what they've already bought, which is how two people end up buying the same thing and one person gets forgotten entirely. The gift planner fixes that: a list per person, items saved straight off this page, ticked off as they arrive.

Free, and about a minute — one list per person, with prices and links kept in one place.

Writing your own list instead? 🎁

Then flip it round. Put these on a wishlist, send one link, and people buy from it instead of guessing — they claim items anonymously, so nothing arrives twice and you're still surprised on the day. Anything expensive can be a group gift, so several people chip in rather than one person carrying it.

Turn your ticks into a wishlist →

Running a Secret Santa this year? 🎅

We do the draw for free. Everyone joins a circle, sets a budget and links the wishlist they'd like their Santa to see. The draw skips self-matches and reciprocal pairs, and each person sees only their own assignment — so nobody, including whoever organised it, can work out the whole ring.

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Christmas gift FAQs

What are good Christmas gifts under $25?

Plenty, and they tend to be the ones that actually get used. A Dash mini waffle maker is about $13, Bananagrams about $12, UNO Show 'em No Mercy about $15, a Carhartt beanie about $20 and Soundcore P20i earbuds about $21. The under-$25 section of this list has eleven of them, which is also the right price band for a Secret Santa.

What do you buy someone who says they don't want anything?

Something consumable or replaceable, so it carries no obligation — hot sauce, good coffee, a fleece throw, a lip mask. The other reliable answer is upgrading something they already own and would never replace for themselves: the charger, the water bottle, the beanie, the kitchen thermometer.

What is a good Secret Santa gift?

Keep it under the group's cap and make it something anyone would use — a card game, earbuds, a beanie, a good thermometer. The under-$25 section here is built for exactly that. If you are the one organising the draw, giftgiving.fun runs Secret Santa free: everyone joins a circle, the draw avoids self-matches and reciprocal pairs, and each person sees only their own assignment.

Is this Christmas gift list free?

Yes, completely free with no signup. Your ticks save in your browser, the list prints cleanly, and you can turn the ticked items into a shareable wishlist or a private gift plan if you want to keep track of what you have already bought.