Last year, instead of putting out a typical holiday gift guide, I put together a gift giveaway. It was fun, but I think I  started it too late in the season, so I’m starting it early this year.

This idea came about mainly because I’m just one person with specific tastes who isn’t especially attuned to new products, which is not great for coming up with a gift guide for thousands of people. I did alright for a while, I think (here’s one of them), but generally a gift guide with ideas from a broader range of people will be more useful.

So I’m asking: what’s one thing you’d like to get this holiday season? (…that costs no more than $75)

Post your answer in the comments. If you do, you’ll be entered into a drawing, the prize of which is your choice of any one of the suggested gifts, either your own or someone else’s (provided the gift is within the rules—see below).

Your suggestion should include at least the name of the gift. Feel free to add a description of it and a link to it. (It needn’t be philosophy-related, though it of course could be.)

The drawing will only take place if there are at least fifty different eligible gifts suggested. If more than 150 different eligible gifts are suggested, there will be two winners drawn.

Yours truly, in a scene from last year’s selection of the gift giveaway winner

The deadline for suggestions is Monday, December 9th Tuesday, December 10th at 11:59pm, or the point at which (unlikely as it is) 1,000 eligible gift suggestions have been submitted, whichever is sooner. The drawing, during which the winner (or winners) will be selected at random, will be recorded and posted here, and will take place sometime that week.

I hope the result is a useful list of good gift suggestions, as well as a little extra fun and excitement for you this holiday season. Now let’s hear some good gift ideas, philosofriends!

Here are the rules:

About the suggestions:

1. One suggestion per person.
2. Each suggested gift should cost less than $75. 
3. Gift cards, gift certificates, money, etc. are not eligible suggestions. 
4. Suggestions of gratuitously offensive or inappropriate gifts will be deleted at my discretion and the persons suggesting them will be ineligible for the drawing. No, there will be no discussion of this clause in the comments on this post.
5. Gifts which, owing to their weight, fragility, or other condition, require extraordinary shipping costs or efforts may be excluded from the drawing at my discretion.
6. For a gift to be eligible for the drawing, it must be possible to order it online from a device in the United States.

About the suggesters:

7. To enter the drawing, you will need to comment using your real name (at least first name) and your official university/college email address. Your email address will not appear in your published comment. If you regularly use that email address with a pseudonym when commenting here, see the note at the end of this post. If you are a regular visitor to or commenter on Daily Nous but do not have a “.edu” address, you are welcome to make a suggestion but your eligibility for the drawing will depend on my discretion at recognizing you as a regular visitor and being able to get in touch with you via a working email address.
8. Every once in a while, some comments that shouldn’t get trapped in the spam filter do, sometimes the commenting system malfunctions, and sometimes the site goes down, etc. In short, there’s no guarantee a submitted comment will actually show up, though within reason I’ll do what I can to check for “lost” comments.

About the drawing:

9. The drawing will only happen if there are fifty (50) or more different eligible suggestions made. If more than 150 different eligible gifts are suggested, there will be two winners drawn.
10. The drawing will come to a close either at 11:59pm on Monday, December 9th or when 1,000 different eligible suggestions have been made, whichever comes first.
11. The drawing will take place between Tuesday, December 10th and Friday, December 13th. It will be recorded and posted at Daily Nous.
12. If, by the time of the drawing, the chosen gift is sold out, backordered into 2024, or otherwise no longer available, the winner will have the option of requesting an alternative gift of comparable value.
13. The winning gifts will be ordered soon after the drawing. Shipping is obviously out of my control, so I can make no assurances about when the gifts will arrive, or their condition, etc.

(I may have forgotten to include something in this list of rules, in which case I may update it later.)

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