Haven't we all learned by now when it comes to gift giving, it's the thought that counts? Thoughts are free and in infinite supply, and the best thing about a thought is it can be turned into a real, concrete item to wrap with care and present to someone you like as a gift. Thoughts are free, but gifts can get expensive. Thankfully there are a ton of great gifts you can give this holiday that are both thoughtful and inexpensive. Here then are the best gifts under $25.
There’s nothing civil about war, especially when you’ve got Iron Man trading blows with Captain America, but the result is one the best comic book that Marvel has made yet, so it all balances out in the end.
The Blu-ray for Civil War has the feature film, as well as special features like the making-of, deleted scenes, as well as vignettes to help better understand what Earth's mightiest heroes did to find themselves in such a predicament. Plus it's all in glorious high-definition, and don't you owe it to your friends and family to give them a clear picture of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
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Marvel's Captain America: Civil War
You've played the games, you've read the books, now you can see the movie. Or rather, you can gift the movie to your favorite Warcraft fan. And really, who else would appreciate the struggle of the peoples of Azeroth as they push back the fell-powered forces of Guldan and his legions of war-crazed orcs?
The Warcraft Blu-Ray has even more on the disc to get the Warcraft fan in your life more excited, including special features, a digital copy of the film, and even a feature about the committed and extraordinary fandom behind all things Warcraft. If you know someone who can recite the tenets of Warcraft lore from memory, you know someone who'd love this gift.
Warcraft Blu-ray
Is there anyone else who can do computer animation quite like Pixar? That's not even a rhetorical question, because it has a solid answer, and that answer is "no." Pixar's influence on modern animation cannot be overstated, and this Finding Nemo sequel is the perfect gift for the Pixar fan in your life.
The combo pack includes all the usual special features, like deleted scenes and a making of that showcases the titan task of animating a film like this. But best of all, it includes the short film “Piper,” which played before Dory in theaters.
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Finding Dory Combo-Pack
Need more to watch? Here are some more great movies for under 25 bucks to consider.
Take a chance if you want to, you can hit your friends with pie… in their faces. The Pie Face Game is a very real, very hilarious game from Hasbro that is basically Russian Roulette with whipped cream. You give the wheel a spin, you put your face into the chin rest, and hope the odds are in your favor.
If they are, no big deal, you can watch your friends and family sweat it out. But if it's your time, and your time will come, you get a big mess of whip cream all up in your grill. It doesn't matter how old or young you are, a face full of pie filling is hilarious.
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Pie Face Party Game
Sushi Go is a card game based on the sushi-line of food stuffs. Perhaps you're familiar with the rice, seaweed and seafood dishes popular around the world? In Sushi Go, the goal is to grab the tastiest sushi as it goes by. However, rather than use actual sushi, which could be messy and expensive, Sushi Go simulates the food by using cards instead. Which, honestly, is a much funner system.
There are bonuses for grabbing the full set of sashimi and dipping your dishes in wasabi triples its score, just like in real-life. You don't even need to like sushi to have fun playing Sushi Go, you just need to like playing fast and fun card games.
Sushi Go!
Here's one more to consider.
- Codenames: Use word clues to contact your team of undercover agents before the other side does the same. It's the most fun playing spies since the end of the cold war.
The unrelenting and lethal shamble of the zombie horde is the brutal reality faced each day by the human survivors of The Walking Dead's post-apocalyptic hellscape. Humanity is challenged not only by the undead threat of the walkers and their insatiable appetite for the flesh of the living, but the survivors must also battle other humans for limited resources and in some cases, the thrill of the hunt.
It's maybe not the jolly Dickens story of holiday good naturedness, but it does make a great gift for anyone on your list with a love for the Walking Dead comic series. It's a great, suspenseful tale that sets up a story arc, and the paperback covers issues 151-156 of the comic.
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The Walking Dead
You definitely know someone who's into Harry Potter. There's just no way that you don't, which makes giving them gifts tricky, because most people go all-in with their Harry Potter fandom. That's what makes this illustrated edition of the second Harry Potter book perfect to gift your favorite wizarding enthusiast.
With colorful, gorgeous illustrations of iconic scenes and characters from the world of Harry Potter, this hardback edition brings a whole new angle to a classic. Even if the Potter fan in your life has read the series 100 times, they're definitely going to love a fresh, illustrated, and attractive hardback edition like this to add to their collection.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Illustrated Edition
A simple premise of a boy and his stuffed tiger is maybe one of the most beloved comic strips of all time. Bill Watterson's ink and watercolor style brings the imagination of Calvin to life in a strip that's both sweet and evocative of the childhoods of anyone who let themselves get lost in their own dreams.
If you have a friend who loves comics but isn't familiar with Calvin and Hobbes, you should definitely introduce them to it through this book. It's not the full collection of strips, but it is a great cross section of characters, situations, and scenarios that weave their way through the strip over the course of its amazing life.
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The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Soviet Russia is long gone, but her greatest gift to the world lives on by way of Tetris. Tetris, the game that you can play on basically anything, was created in 1984 and went from simplistic graphics to today's modern machines with hardly any change in its fundamental gameplay.
What makes this book from Box Brown more than just a rote history and discussion of the game is its existence as a graphic novel. The entire story is told in comic-form, breathing a new artistic take on the story and influence of arguably the most popular computer game ever created. Seek this one out for sure.
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Tetris: The Games People Play
Books always make a great gift, because they're packed with knowledge, or jokes, or terror, or anything really. Here are even more books to consider.
The second best thing about refrigerators is they have all that space on them for holding children's drawings, or your graduate degree, or anything that will stick. However, unless you want to use messy adhesive tapes, you're going to need some magnets to hold stuff on your fridge. If you don't get magnets, then everything will fall on the floor, and you worked too hard on that degree to have trampled beneath the feet of hungry refrigerator gawkers!
These magnets are shaped like the back-half of popular dog breeds. It almost looks like the dogs phased through a dimension and made it half way through the door before being made whole again. Or perhaps the other side is human, making them into a dog-centaur? It's up to you and your friends to make up a back story for these ridiculous, amazing dog magnets.
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Dog Butts Magnets
Quick, you're looking for an awesome gift under $25 for your friend, what comic, movies, shows, games, and books are they into? Hold on tight to your answer, and imagine a world where you could get your friends a physical representation of their favorite pop-culture phenomenon. Now check it out: Funko Pop Figures have made your imagination come to life!
It would be basically impossible to list every Funko Pop Figure, which is why we're just going to recommend you ask your friend or family member what they're into and search from there. Do they like Dragon Ball Z? Grab an adorable, albeit slightly-deformed Piccolo for them. How about Star Wars? Do they like Star Wars? Then they'd love a too-cute Kylo Ren. How could he be so angry when he's so adorable? No one really knows. How about a bobblehead Deadpool that’ll nod in agreement with anything they say? He’s the ultimate yes man!
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Deadpool Bobblehead Funko Pop!
Modern controllers, with their complexity and accuracy, are only as good as your fingers. For example, if your thumbs slip off an analog stick, that advanced feat of modern engineering is no better than the clunky joystick of an Atari 2600. That's where the Grip-iT Analog Stick Covers come in.
These make a great gift because they not only add an extra bit of grip to controllers, they can also replace worn-down grips. Chances are you know someone with a day-one console whose controllers are looking pretty bad by now. Give them a set of these removable stick covers and give them the gift of control. As a bonus, they won't be able to use "my finger slipped" as an excuse for losing to you in multiplayer.
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Grip-iT Analog Stick Covers
Need more wacky and/or useful gifts that won't break the bank? Try these:
You can be a hero who breaks an ancient curse, and all it takes is gifting someone a UT Wire Pocket Earphone Case. For as long as in-ear headphones have existed, some manner of dark magic has made them into a knotted mess when you put them in your pocket. The top headphone scientists on Earth can't explain it, but they can help to alleviate it.
The cases also protect against gross dirt and pocket lint that can sometimes find its way into in-ear headphones. They also make a perfect place to store a pair of Air Pods, Apple's wireless earbuds everyone is really worried about losing. Everyone's a winner!
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UT Wire Pocket Earphone Case Pouch
Your friends and family are watching boring TV. No, not that six-hour cattle auction on the farming channel, but their televisions have so much potential just waiting to be unlocked. That's why you need to get them the Vansky Bias LED strip. It will make their HDTVs look exciting and cool, like watching TV in the not-so-distant future.
The strip installs on the back of an HDTV and gives off a nice backlight that helps alleviate eye-strain while also helping improve contrast and depth of black on screen. Plus it just looks so awesome. No one will ever be weary watching Murder, She Wrote when there's a strip of Vansky Bias Lighting involved.
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Vansky Bias Lighting for HDTV
Not only is the Jackery Bolt 6,000 mAh Ultra-Compact External Battery Charger a great way to extend the life of a cell phone, it's also a mighty fine deal at just a hair over $25. Think about the milli-amp per dollar ratio and it's crazy not to grab one of these for your favorite tech-fueled friend.
Smart phones and USB devices are incredible and hold all the promise of humanity within their silicon hearts. All that math and science takes a whole lot of power, which is why the Jackery Bolt charger exists. Plug in your phone or any other powered USB device and suddenly your phone can live longer, helping you catch Pokemon or an Uber when your battery otherwise might leave you stranded.
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Jackery Bolt
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