The 2023 WorkDaze Holiday Gift Guide 🎄

The only thing we love more than a good candle is a good cause! Which is why we’re obsessed that Groove candle helps provide meals to those in need with every purchase. 🫶

I’m 100% willing to risk looking like Sandra Bullock in Bird Box for this portable eye massager. 

Cozy and budget-friendly? Muji socks FTW.

FYI: The Lisa Frank Dolphin is totally my spirit animal. Gift your friends these Lisa Frank stickers to instantly transport them back to middle school, popped collars optional. 

There’s gotta be something said about viewfinders: only 7 photos, yet they kept us occupied for hours?! Find some of your favorite photos and create a custom RetroViewer for someone you have a lot of special memories with.

A Chicago hot dog kit?! Say less. Send someone a food kit from one of their favorite restaurants from afar with Goldbelly. Such a cozy and thoughtful idea for the nights when you don’t feel like eating Christmas tree slice-and-bake cookies for dinner.

It’s giving the Great British Bake Off. We all have that one friend who always comes through with the homemade treats. Buy them this online cake design class by Udemy so they can perfect their craft (and you can continue with your hopes of being their taste tester). 

Your TikTok obsessed coworker (definitely them and not me…) needs this time management gadget to help them control their scroll throughout the day.  

My friend Toni Lodge’s memoir, I Don’t Need Therapy (And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself), is equal parts hilarious and eye-opening, a perfect read for the funny bookworm in your life! 

I was going to say Ariana Madix deserves a drink after the year she’s had, but, ope, she wrote a whole darn cocktail book instead. In Single AF Cocktails, she tells the story of her past relationship that eventually led to Scandoval, pairing themed cocktails with each chapter. 

In an effort to avoid your coworker’s rotting bananas on their desk, perhaps these incredibly weird but also very cute Nana Hats will come in handy?

Chicago fun fact: Last year we had a 43-day period with just one day of sunshine. Ever since I started standing  in front of my Verilux HappyLight Luxe Light Therapy Lamp for 10 minutes each morning, I swear my email responses have been more enthusiastic. Your midwest friends will thank you. 

You know you’re a geriatric millennial when you sleep on your neck wrong once and then you can’t turn your head for the next three weeks. The Theragun Mini is a game-changer, and gifting one will easily bump you to #1 on your friends’ Top 8.

It’s called “ballin’ on a budget.” Save some money and make DIY body scrub for your pals. A few of our favorites we’ve found?

• Brown sugar scrub

• Lavender sugar scrub

• Peppermint sugar scrub

• Gingerbread cookie sugar scrub

We all have that friend who has a bajillion notes in their phone yet no idea what any of them mean. This Hatch project planner, business idea planner, and idea journal is the best present for them.

We all can’t be Picasso, okay?! Buy this paint by numbers kit for someone in your life who appreciates the arts but maybe needs a little help when it comes to creating their first masterpiece.

Chicago (Rod): My talented friend, Jonathan Keating, designs customized painted sneakers, with whatever design of your choosing. Perfect for the sneakerhead in your life!

New York (Ali & Kinsey): We love a reduce, reuse, recycle moment, which is why we love Verloop! The Brooklyn-based knitwear company uses textile waste and excess deadstock yarn to create all sorts of fun knit items