Miscellaneous
Vintage Adult Magazines
8th November, 2021
This definitely isn’t a universal gift and is tough to find, but a vintage Playboy magazine is an excellent gift for the right person. For a start, there’s no way they own it already. But mostly it’s a time capsule: the topics, the photography, the design, the adverts. The adverts! Reel-to-reel tape players, cigarettes, clock radios. And the quality of the writing might surprise you - the canard “I buy it for the articles” is rooted in truth.
A Bum Bag
4th November, 2021
Sure, they had a fashion resurgence a few years ago, but that’s not why it’s a great kid’s gift. There’s an age range - maybe 5 to 9 - when you get a taste for independence. A bum bag is its own private universe, big enough to fit everything you need to survive: your favourite small toy, a chocolate bar, £2.50 in pocket money, a pen, an optic wonder, and some string.