New Year is approaching without us noticing. The main purpose of new year visiting is gathering with friends and family and wish each other the best. Visiting others’ houses with no gift is not quite polite, therefore we always prepared New year gift boxes for our relatives, friends, and clients in advanced. The “traditional new year gifts” are always those few snack products, not only it is boring to buy repetitive gift every year but also the hosts themselves may receive the same snacks, they have no choice but finishing all of them and being sick of eating that snack, it somewhat destroys the happiness of welcoming a new year. If you want to hand out gift that is unique, thoughtful, practical and something that can lasts, please refer to this New year’s gift buying guide, hope you find it helpful to buy the perfect gift.

Tips on Picking New Year Gifts

1. Avoid Chinese Homophones That Have Unlucky Meanings

We always want to buy the elderly something expensive and practical, but be careful not to give them stuff with unlucky meaning, for example, clock is the homophone of death, and giving clock as gift meaning attending someone’s funeral. Elderly values sign of receiving good luck, handing them “bad luck gift” may hurt their feelings and the relationship between you two.

2. Do Not Rush to Buy New Year’s Gift

When giving gift to others, the most important thing is your caring for others, reflected as specially pick gift for him. Suggest to think about what he really needs or like before New Year comes, and prepare gifts in advance. Try to avoid rushing to buy gifts at the supermarket minutes before New year visiting.

3. Selected Gift Based on Recipients’ Preferences

Purchase gifts that he needs and will make good use of. For example, for the elderly in family, our biggest wish is that they have good health, therefore can give them something related to healthy diet, such as tea maker and soymilk maker. For friends of the same age, you can buy gift that related to their recent hobbies or interests.

4. Colour of Gift

The elderly would love to receive gift in red during Chinese New Year, it symbolizes good luck and happiness. Although red and gold represent good luck in Chinese New Year, but many young people think these colours are tacky and do not like it, you can choose other colour instead. Unless you are sure that the recipient does not mind, try not to pick gift in white or black.

Men’s Care

New year’s greetings need to visit and socialize with many friends and family, for sure guys want to look nice in front of them. Guys have to shave at least once a day, shavers got broken or become old very easily. New year new shaver is exactly the perfect gift for you to give to your male relatives or friends. A nice electronic shaver can help him to shave thoroughly and comfortably, get ready to new year visiting in 3 seconds.

Kitchen Appliances

Visiting friends and relatives in new year, except for those who has recently moved, the hosts usually have all the basic kitchen appliances they need, they do not want to receive the kitchen utensils that they already have and have to figure out how to deal with it. Speaking of kitchen appliances, the first thing that pop into mind would be housewives, but anyone have passion in food is suitable to receive kitchen appliances, encourage them to pick up a new hobby, spend time in the kitchen. If you have relatives or friends who love to cook, we recommend you giving her a cooking machine, including the toaster, cooking blender, bread maker, popcorn machine etc. If she is in the habit of having breakfast at home, you can give her a toaster or bread maker, she can make breakfast from scratch, enjoy the most healthy, nutritious, and warmest breakfast in the morning of the new year. If she holds house party very often, then popcorn maker or Gran Galeto ice cream maker is what she could use of, she and friends can DIY the perfect party snack and dessert in the house party.

Hair Styling Tools

Many ladies will take good use of the long holiday, change a new hairstyle, and buy new clothes. Hair is one of the most important things for girls when dressing up, no matter they are five or eight-five, they still love to have beautiful hair. A lot of mothers do their little princess a cute hairstyle for new year’s visiting, like the pigtails or space buns etc, showing up being the focus of all. Children have more fragile hair and scalp, moms have concern in using hair straightener or curler, that’s why a nice hair dryer will be the best gift for the stylish mom, they can do their daughter’s hairstyle by the heating from hair dryer. For other ladies, you can buy them an all-in-one hair styler, they can change their hairstyle as they wish in this long holiday, show up glamorous in New Year’s gathering.

Drink Maker

If you have friends who are “drinkaholic”, whether they like drinking coffee, beer or juice, there are relevant gift that suits them. The beer machine can make delicate beer foam, brings out the sweetness and bitterness of the bear, suitable for beer lover, guests and hosts can enjoy delicious beer together. We have capsule coffee machine that can suits the busy lifestyle of the salaryman, a quick click on machine can generate quality coffee, help them waking up in the morning. We also have the manual coffee machine for the professional coffee lover, they can take time and enjoy every process of making coffee. If the recipient does not like alcohol and caffeine, you can consider buying them a fresh juicer or soymilk machine, perfect for those who advocates healthy lifestyle.

Kids' Selection

What is more thrilled than having a long holiday for the kids? Except of the New Year’s visiting, kids do not have many things to do during the New Year, in order to save them from a boring long holiday, we can give them toys for New Year Gifts when visiting. There are many toys’ options provided. For the future little scientists and little astronauts, you can consider buy them STEM toys, it encourages little ones to develop critical and creative thinking ability, engage in science, technology, engineering, and math games. Not only kids can enjoy their fun time, but parents will be pleased to let children play with educational toys which stimulates young minds. For the little bookworm, you can buy them e-book reader, included thousands of books and series of collection, they can read traditional Chinese, English and other languages’ classic literature and children books with one device. It encourages children to develop a good reading habit and expand their knowledge. How could we forget our little athlete and little musician? If your children are lively and energetic, or naturally gifted in music or sport, the following toys were designed for them. It allows them to explore their talent and interest in different area.

Elderly Selection

Buying an appropriate gift for the elderly in family may not be an easy task, we certainly concern their wellbeing and health at the first place. Therefore, start with this perspective, we have a few proper gifts option for reference. First, most of the elderly enjoy the taste of tea, besides of the special flavour and aroma, tea also have medicinal benefits for the elderly, such as lowered the risk of heart disease, cognitive decline, and diabetes. Tools and accessories for making tea is practical and thoughtful gift for seniors in family. Blood pressure monitor is also a useful gift for older adults, elderly have higher risk to face stroke, coronary heart disease and congestive heart failure. Developing habits of measuring own blood pressure can help keep levels in normal range. If your parents or grandparents have complained about back, neck, or any type of body pain, a massager gift can help relieve pain and encourage relaxation. If you are aware that they have specific body parts in pain, for example, shoulder pain or foot pain, you can select massager that designed to relieve the relevant muscle and tissue. Don’t worry if you don’t know about that, you can simply give them massage gun, the handheld massage tool can apply to various body part.

Sterilizer

Many people go out visiting relatives and friends in new year, however we should remain alarmed under the outbreak of Coronavirus, be careful with our personal hygiene, wear masks and sanitize hands, prevent the spread of Coronavirus and the new variant Omicron. With the ongoing global pandemic Coronavirus, what is better than sterilizer as a new year gift. Toothbrush sterilizer and dish sterilizer are gifts suitable for majority of the family, toothbrush and cutlery are day-to-day household item, touches human mouth directly or indirectly, therefore it is important to keep them clean. For family that have children or babies, feeding bottle sterilizer and toy sterilizer is exactly what they need. Sterilizer can kill bacteria from objects, thus lower the risk of COVID infection.