16 Things People Should Just Buy Themselves For Christmas

As we grow up, it seems to get harder and harder to think of what we want for Christmas. When we were kids, we had a whole year to watch and wait for the perfect thing to ask for, and that anticipation would build and build until we were sure we wanted it more than anything in the world.

Yet nowadays, many of us can find ourselves getting surprisingly hard to buy for. We’re more used to being able to get what we want when we want it, so the idea of making a holiday wish list at the end of the year can become more and more daunting as the years go by.

When we find ourselves getting stuck like this, it can sometimes be useful to scour places you wouldn’t normally think of. After all, sometimes you don’t know what you want the most until you come across it by chance.

Hopefully, these 16 offbeat gifts will activate your own imagination and help you make your holidays brighter.

COMMENT and tell us about the strangest things anyone’s ever given you.

1. If you’ve ever wanted to feel like Magneto, this is the way to do it.

This metal is known as gallium, and it’s known for having such a low melting point that it can melt in your hand under the right conditions. It’s non-toxic, but you’ll want to keep it away from anything made of aluminum because it can ruin it by turning it really brittle.

2. Somebody out there will be really happy to know this exists.

Depending on the directions your life can take you, it can be easier than you might think to lose track of what day of the week it is. I’ll admit, this would probably come in handy for me.

3. There are some awesome ways to bundle up when the weather gets cold.

If there’s a better way to do it than looking like the Kraken, I don’t know it.

4. If you liked Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid, this will take you back in a big way.

It’s called Killing Hitler with Praise and Fire, and your character’s mission is exactly what it sounds like. This book has over 100 different endings spanning across 13 different time periods, and many of them involve a treasure trove of intense ways to take the dictator down. 

And if your preferred method involves fire, then we have just the thing for you.