Gift Guide 2025: What Our Experts Are Giving This Year
The Wirecutter Show
The New York Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi. |
| 0:09.0 | Are you working on my holiday gifts? |
| 0:12.3 | What? |
| 0:12.9 | Where are you at with that? |
| 0:13.9 | With your gifts specifically? |
| 0:15.3 | Definitely. |
| 0:15.6 | I mean, we'll start with me and then we can. |
| 0:19.4 | It's getting to be that time. |
| 0:21.3 | And of course, we're here on a Friday, which means we're doing a bonus episode. |
| 0:24.2 | That's right. |
| 0:25.0 | This one is extra special. |
| 0:28.3 | We're talking about gifting. |
| 0:30.1 | I think I love and hate this topic. |
| 0:32.3 | I love this time of year. |
| 0:34.4 | I feel so much pressure to get all the gifts, all the kid gifts, all the friend |
| 0:38.7 | gifts, all the spousal gifts. Yeah, it's a lot. It is extra hard, too, when you're a wire cutter |
| 0:43.2 | employee, because people really do expect you to get it right every single time. The bar is high. |
| 0:48.5 | The bar is very high. I'm convinced that giving gifts, like good, thoughtful and meaningful |
| 0:52.3 | gifts does get harder every year. Because I think |
| 0:55.1 | even if you are inspired throughout the year and jot things down by the end, there are always like |
| 1:00.1 | four or five people. You're like, shoot, what about them? Yeah. Yeah. And it's also hard because |
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