Shopping for someone younger than you? Or older than you? Or spiritually 14 but biologically 34? Welcome to the generational gift minefield.
Because while Millennials are busy with their back pain and quoting early-2000s pop-punk bangers like Blink-182, Gen Z are out here speaking fluent internet and emotionally bonding with tiny objects.
Good news: we’ve got gifts for both ends of the very confusing spectrum. These generations don’t have to get along, but they do need to be given something that truly speaks to them (even if we don’t understand it).
Gen Z Gifts
Vibe: unhinged but cute, online-coded, emotionally attached to small things.
Jellycat Amuseables Peach Bag Charm
If it’s cute, fluffy, can hang from their bag and resembles something from real-life, you know that Gen Z are gonna snap that sh*t up.
This fuzzy lil guy went viral last year on every platform you can think of, and now it can be shown off wherever Zers hang out these days. On Fortnite? Who knows.
Nobody Puts Bubu In The Corner Card
Is this a merging between both cultures? That’s almost unfathomable, but we reckon it is.
A combination between an iconic movie quote from the 80s (Dirty Dancing, just in case you’re THAT uncultured) and a trend from the 2020s that a lot of people don’t understand. All on one happy birthday card.
People wrote about the prophecies but we didn’t think they’d come to fruition.
This ticks all the boxes, honestly.
- Self-aware humour ✅
- A little trinket they probably don’t need ✅
- Mildly chaotic ✅
- Something they’ll probably become obsessed with ✅
Lulu Piggy Joy Time Plush Keychain
Blind Boxes are absolutely bloody everywhere at the moment, and Lulu Piggy is probably one of the most adorable out there.
Feed their dopamine hit with an adorable hidden cutie pie with true main character energy.
This is going STRAIGHT on their backpack or bag, you know.
Brainrot is the Gen Z equivalent to Millennials watching Spongebob Squarepants, only a little bit more chaotic.
Did you ever think you’d be giving them a card with a toilet on it, alongside a completely made up word? Probs not, but they’ll love it!
Snuggly Tea Time Cosy Colouring Book
If there’s anything Gen Zers are craving right now, it’s comfort and being super cosy, AKA escaping the horrors of the outside world.
Honestly? Same. Grab some pencils, we’re going colouring.
Millenial Gifts
Drinking matcha is basically a personality trait at this point. We’re convinced that a lot of Millennials don’t even like the taste, just the vibe, which is totally fine.
Only REAL green drink girlies have the proof that they love matcha, and that’s exactly what this keyring is. It’s going straight on their keys.
The Millennial generation are the last true yappers, because they need to air all of their problems from years of ups and downs.
So this mug is the perfect chaotic accompaniment to their yapping, spilling the tea (not literally) and getting all the goss from last night’s episode of Love is Blind.
Can You Believe We Used To Start Our Nights Out At 10pm?! Card
This exact card will be in a museum 200 years from now as a perfect representation of what Millennials did back in the early 2000s.
WKD, a crap camera, the straightest hair EVER and more makeup than Donny T.
The funniest thing is that they’re all now in bed by 10pm, even on a Saturday.
90s Club Tunes Getting Old Birthday Card
‘Sandstorm’ while you clean the toilet, ‘Wannabe’ as you wipe down the sides, ‘Rhythm Is A Dancer’ as you wash the dishes.
They used to rock the dancefloor with these absolute bangers back in the day. Now they just wash the bathroom floor to these absolute bangers in the current day. Same thing, tbh.
A Little Bit of Taylor Swift Book
We don’t need to explain this one.
Just look at how mental people went for Eras Tour tickets and you’ll get it.
