Michael is looking forward to his fav day of the year. You guessed it…Hanukkah!
If you’re reading this and you’re in the office, I sure hope you get out early today… Bust open the egg nog already!!!
Are you the life of your office party? Or are you one whose attitude is: these are my colleagues, not friends? Either way, holiday gifts for those whom you see five days a week is always a good idea. It makes everyone happy, and everyone likes you more. Win-win, we say! But, enough with the generic chocolates or photo frames that everyone buys! We have some cool gift ideas for your fellow 9-5ers, ones guaranteed to make you look thoughtful and them feel like Christmas came early!
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Is your office set-up looking too cold and impersonal? This keyboard tray, with its warm wood tone, is perfect for changing that. The tray is made of black walnut and is designed to hold Apple’s wireless keyboard, magic trackpad, and its new aluminum-bodied remote. The overall effect is a great mesh-up of geek chic and mother earth Zen.
Perfect for: Creative types who work with Macs, or Wall Streeters who want to stand out from the crowd.
www.urbanoutfitters.com
In this day and age, anyone who’s a corporate type should probably have a smart phone of some sort, on which he/she is bound to be messing about with apps like …Grindr maybe. Hehe. Someone out there had the ingenious idea of turning these beloved apps icons into magnets, and voila! Cute, quirky, and functional, these magnets are bound to be a hit with all, except maybe traditionalists whose definition of advanced phone technology is a color screen!
Perfect for: People with iphones, Blackberries, or Androids. Basically 99% of the population then.
Kate Spade Office Calendar 2011
Kate Spade’s annual calendar/organizer is always ultra-cute, ultra-feminine, and ultra-unique. It has all the usual functions of an organizer, with the artistic whimsy of a bohemian thrown in to make it a must-have for all ladies. Trust us, your office girlfriends will love you for this present!
Perfect for: Office girls who love The Devil Wears Prada/Confessions of a Shopaholic.
www.uncrate.com
Idea Paint basically turns anything that you paint into a reusable dry-erase surface. How cool is that? Say bye to sad and tiny dry-eraser boards with Idea Paint! Now you have a giant canvas that you can use to express your artistic talent, map out that business plan or let others leave cheeky notes
Perfect for: Someone senior enough to have his/her own office and thus, walls to paint on, i.e. Your boss. Chances are you’ll have to do the painting for him/her though!
www.urbanoutfitters.com
Ok you’re probably thinking: A world map? How original an idea *roll eyes*. But this is a map with a twist! The continents on the map have a layer of scratch-off foil surface, so you can scratch off a part of the map every time you come back from a holiday!
Perfect for: Travel enthusiasts who now have a physical companion to Facebook’s Cities I’ve Visited add-on to show off how many countries they’ve been to. Map Geeks.
www.fredflare.com
There’s always one or two people in the office who feels like they were meant to be rock stars, but are stuck slumming in their cubicles. Well, this roll-up piano is just the gift for them! The piano has 100 musical instrument tones and has a recording function too, which is perfect for that post-Christmas party drunken jamming session!
Perfect for: As mentioned, failed musicians-turned-cubicle dwellers. Warning though: This gift runs the risk of annoying you and everyone else for the rest of the year!
www.usefulthings.com
In this slack economy, we’ve all got to find ways to cut our budgets and save some money. Enter the USB battery charger then. Place two rechargeable batteries onto the USB stick, and stick that into your computer to charge the batteries! It’s perfect for charging on the go, and psst… this means you can charge your batteries using your office computer and cut down on your electricity bill!
Perfect for: The office cheapskate. Don’t say that to their face of course!
Want more holiday/gift-giving visual stimulation? Head over to LogoTV.com to check out special Thanksgifting movies and more sassy gift ideas and videos!
Our Thanksgifting Holiday Gift Guide is brought to you by the lovely folks at Southwest Airlines. Bon voyage!
