Cool novelty gifts are the perfect way to bring a smile to a loved one's face.
If you're the type of person who loves to make the adults and children in your life laugh, it's time to find a novelty gift. Whether you're giving a gift in honor of a birthday or "just because," purchase unusual items like flip flop socks, a cool rubber briefcase or a police siren alarm clock to bring a smile to your friends' and family members' faces.
New Way to Save
Get teens a piggy bank with a modern twist. Buy your favorite niece or cousin a funnel topped, white piggy bank and several bottles of colorful fingernail polish she can use to personalize her bank. Include nail polish remover and cotton balls which she can use to clean the pig and start over, or consider permanent markers or acrylic paints and paint brushes available at craft stores. Encourage her to paint designs on the bank, but remind her the purpose of the bank is to save money by placing coins and paper money inside the bank. Find coink banks at Uncommon Goods, Modern Nursery and GiftTree websites.
Unique Utensils
Kids and adults will love eating off of Zing!'s spring loaded spoons, available at online stores like Amazon or Kitchen Kapers. The spoon's flexible handle makes flinging food a breeze. You may need to warn the birthday boy's family to host his dinner, and the ensuing food fight, outside. Another unique gift for the cook in your life is the BBQ Sword Fork. Its fencing style handle ends at a two pronged fork which can be used while grilling.
Not-Your-Everyday Clocks
Safely give the woman in your life an iron she will really use with an iron-shaped alarm clock which also doubles as an iPod speaker. Or get the man in your life an alarm he can't sleep through. Shaped like a police siren, this clock requires its user to turn off the alarm in three seconds or the siren will begin to wail. These funny shaped clocks can be purchased at online sites Stupid, Amazon and Shop.
Creative Coffee Mugs
There are easily thousands of unique coffee mugs available in unusual shapes and decorated with cute sayings. Turn a coffee mug into a novelty gift by purchasing one that matches a friend or family member's personality and filling it with a bag of gourmet coffee or hot chocolate. The hardcore coffee lover will enjoy using a coffee mug that has a heat-sensitive gauge printed on the side. As the hot coffee level lowers, the gauge on the side of the mug lowers, similar to a car's gas gauge. Coffee mugs shaped like toilets, hearts and flower pots will have recipients talking for days. Shop at online sites Perpetual Kid or Garden for a variety of shaped coffee mugs.
One-of-a Kind Containers
Give your mother or sister an unusual novelty container she can use to hold fruit, candy and personal items like makeup. Special glass containers shaped to look like plastic Ziploc baggies, light bulbs or open-mouthed Betta fish are available at online sites Retro Planet, Seven Seas and Signals Catalog. Some of these special containers are large enough that she could even use one as a cool, single fish, fishbowl.
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