Cyber Monday 2023 Holiday Gift Buying Guide
The holidays are a time of celebration, but they also can be a time of stress—especially while searching for the perfect gifts for everyone on your list, whether they love to travel or are a coffee lover or a combination of the two.
If you’re not planning on going to the mall this holiday season, doing some online shopping on Cyber Monday can help you take advantage of great deals and help support small businesses. For gift ideas, look through our handy small business holiday gift buying guide for Cyber Monday 2023. You can even look to get your loved ones a gift card to small businesses. And remember, Cyber Monday is always the Monday after Thanksgiving.
Gift Guide for Accessories and Apparel
Eternal Travel Boutique, is a one stop shop for travel essentials. They offer duffle bags, travel kits, luggage tags and more. Once you’ve browsed their shop, you can read through their travel blog to find useful travel tips. Share what you learn with your friends and family this holiday season.
Steady Straps, offers phone straps that are both practical and come in fun patterns. They help you hold onto your phone easier, so you reduce the chances of dropping it. Their straps come in a wide variety of styles, including geometric, holiday and pet themed patterns. You can even request custom logos for the straps.
Aktiv, is a Scandinavian clothing company with parkas, sweaters, vests, boots and more. With apparel from Aktiv, you can give the gift of warmth this holiday season with clothing and accessories that are designed for the elements. With the quality and versatility that Aktiv provides, you’re bound to find something for everyone on your list.
Gift Guide for Food and Dessert Lovers
Dress It Up Dressing, has six olive oil-based salad dressings with gluten free, sugar-free, vegan, paleo, keto and Whole-30 varieties. Using high quality and simple ingredients, they’ve perfected flavors like:
- Champagne Vinaigrette
- Blackberry Vinaigrette
- Red Wine Vinaigrette
- Apple Cider Vinaigrette
- Sesame Tahini Dressing
- Caesar Dressing
The Dessert Ladies, is a small business that makes finding the right dessert easy. From bars, to cakes to chocolates you’ll find confections that can satisfy anyone’s sweet tooth. They also offer custom corporate gifts.
The Very Best Cookie in the Whole Wide World, ships cookies nationwide. They small batch bake their cookies and use top quality ingredients with no preservatives. They offer giftboxes and subscriptions and have a wide range of flavors, including:
- Oatmeal Raisin
- Maple Crush
- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip
- Nut ‘N Honey
Top This Chocolate, offers milk, white or dark chocolates that you can customize. Once you choose the type of chocolate that you want, you can add nuts, fruits, cookies, candies and salty snacks. You can then have your combo made into a bar, heart or snacking squares.
Gift Guide for Coffee and Beverages
Sputnik Coffee, offers coffee that’s a full medium roast. Customers have described it as smooth with a hint of chocolate. They source their Arabica beans from Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia. Selling coffee that’s delicious and affordable is their specialty.
The Mindful Drinking, Co. has a vast variety of non-alcoholic drink alternatives that can satisfy anyone on your list. You’ll also find great recipes and guides for cocktails you can try with your loved ones this holiday season.
Gift Guide for Unique Products
Scripted Fragrance, offers hand poured, 100% soy wax candles that are all one of a kind. Candles from Scripted Fragrance are one gift you can feel good about giving this season. Each candle is made of natural ingredients and a portion of the proceeds are donated to charity.
The Warm Embrace, has gift boxes with goods from artisans found around the world. With their wide variety of boxes, you’ll be able to find gifts for anyone on your list. Whether you’re shopping for a gardener, tea lover or even someone that loves the outdoors, they’ve got a box for you.
Bubbles & Books, combines reading and bath accessories into one relaxing gift box. They offer themed boxes, equipped with books, bath bombs and more. You can help your loved ones relax this holiday season with a subscription to Bubbles & Books or by getting them an individual gift box.
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I own a Dog & Cat Specialty Boutique in Lakeland, FL
We ship to anywhere in the U.S. from our website. Our bakery treats are featured on our webiste at https://bensonscaninecookies.com
Order for that neighbor or your hard to buy for boss who Loves his dog!
Awesome! Thank you for sharing, Debbie!
Many thanks for this short article, worth sharing as well as borrowing a couple of ideas!
Thanks, Patricia!
To give a unique gift of small-batch craft spirits from New York State, look at https://RockValleySpirits.com (shipping available to NY state)
Thank you for the comment!
Thank you to the Hartford for great posts as always. PS: My son got his Junior Fire Marshall hat from the Hartford today. So cute, and great lessons on fire safety for the kids.
That's good to hear, Sonya! Thanks for the comment!
It's great to see this focus on small businesses for holiday giving! I hope you'll also highlight non-profits this week for #GivingTuesday - a charitable donation to a worthy cause is a meaningful way to celebrate the season and show someone you care! Curious how many "small business" customers are actually non-profits like us - http://www.humanimpact.org
This is a fantastic list of small businesses! I am the founder of MOM MADE FOODS ~ healthy frozen meals kids love. Our new product line, Lunchwich, is the perfect gift for busy parents to save them time in making lunches every day. We ship our foods within the 48 continental US.
Thanks for the comment, Heather!
Hello! We are Nuts+Nuts, a women owned company that roast cashews and almonds in small batches using our family recipe. We work directly with farmers and are committed to source our ingredients ethically. Perfect for stocking stuffers. For more information please visit http://www.nutsplusnuts.com.
Thank you Hartford!
Thanks for sharing, Cyrilla!
Butcher's Bunches Handcrafted Preserves (www.butchersbunches.com) sells low and no sugar added jams and preserves that are all made by hand in our commercial kitchen.. We do not add any artificial sweeteners, dyes, preservatives, nothing!! They are just fruit in the jars.... and a lot of love.. Please try them!!! (or one of another fantastic local UTAH products that we carry in our specialty mercantile!!). Thanks so much....
Thanks, Liz!
Hello, Hartford Family! In addition to all the wonderful mentions in the article, we operate The Omaha Gift Company. We curate products made by small businesses across the country to create unique, high quality gift boxes that we ship nationally, to Canada, and to military APO addresses. Our gifts are excellent for client gifts, referral thank-yous, family and friends.
Hi Tonya, thanks so much for sending this along!
Stargazer's Gourmet - We're a small family business, creating artisan fudges in small batches and many based on my grandma original recipes of fudges, caramels and more! Call us for volume discounts!
Starla, thanks for sharing. These sound delicious!