What to give to colleagues on February 23?

Usually, choosing a gift for your man is much easier for any lady than coming up with a gift idea for male colleagues. In each labor collective, it is customary to congratulate the stronger sex on the Defender of the Fatherland Day, regardless of whether they served in the army or not. Therefore, the task of planning such gifts turns into an occasion for serious debate and reflection in the female part of the team.

Gifts for male colleagues are more complicated, since all men in the work team are different - in terms of height, weight, age, hobbies and characters. And for this reason alone, it is completely impossible to buy everyone a pair of socks and a shower gel (they also use different cosmetics and care products, there is no way to please everyone).

It would seem that in the modern world, the choice of presents is facilitated by online stores where you can find a variety of souvenirs and cool gifts. But the trouble is: one or two souvenirs can always be ordered, but far from every first and even every second warehouse of an online store can afford to have several dozen of the same things for a large and friendly work collective.

Meanwhile, men are waiting for gifts on February 23 and with some excitement think about what their wonderful colleagues will invent this time. Ladies want to simultaneously please and surprise men, as well as take into account the characteristics and specifics of male psychology and the profession in which the heroes of the occasion work. Women are arranged in such a way that they are kind to the choice of gifts, even if these are collective presentations for colleagues.

And it’s quite understandable the desire not only to hand men at work bags with something on duty and painfully sore mouth, but sincerely to surprise them, to please, to give something usefulbecause rationality is a hallmark of any man.

Much depends on the budget, which has a female part of the team. Female bosses very often allocate certain amounts for gifts for men. In this case, we can assume that your colleagues are lucky - there are more opportunities. If the boss is a man, then with a high degree of probability he will not allocate money for gifts by February 23. Therefore, women will have to take off their hard-earned money, as much as they can, and then count on what the cost of one presentation can count on.

Of course, it is important what exactly will be put in a bag or box, but no less important is how it will be presented. Therefore, to choose gifts and prepare a masculine holiday should start with a discussion of this particular part. It often happens that the idea of ​​a gift is born already in the course of preparation. First of all, exclude all the congratulations that you used earlier (general gathering in the director’s office, in bookkeeping, putting gifts on employees' tables, while they are having dinner, and so on).

Feel free to experiment - the female part of the team, dressed in caps with toy weapons in their hands, marching on teams marching around the enterprise with a drill song to call men for congratulations, will have a much greater effect. For a long time this event will be discussed in your team.

As for gifts directly, you can give something from the list of universal gifts that are most popular for gifting colleagues at work. Here are the most relevant offers.

• Military style lighters (in the form of grenades, mines, pistols). A good lighter is not only needed by a smoker. A man regularly has situations when a lighter is very helpful, so the gift, you can say, is 100% useful.
• Business card holder. This convenient desktop or portable option will be a great gift if your male colleagues work in the office, work with people, often exchange business cards.
• Housekeeper. A good leather key holder will always find application, because in most cases men often lose their keys precisely because they neglect their proper storage and carrying.
• Umbrella. This is a universal gift. The main thing is not to choose too elaborate umbrellas with photo prints, because not every man agrees to leave the house with views of Paris or a scattering of coffee beans overhead in rainy weather.
• Computer mouse. This is a great gift, but it doesn’t matter if the man works with computers or not. At home, in any case, he has such a technique, and the mouse will always find a worthy application. It’s great if the budget allows you to buy wireless mice.
• Magnetic board. This is a reminder for the fridge. You can use it as a notebook to create reminders for yourself, your beloved, as well as to leave command orders for other family members.
• Thermo mug. In cold weather, it will help keep drinks warm longer, and in the summer heat, on the contrary, it will provide a long, cool state of fruit drinks, kvass or mineral water. This option is much better than ordinary circles, which in every office are already many. If a man spends a lot of time in a car, he can buy a thermomug powered by a cigarette lighter. It removes the need for a kettle, because it boils water perfectly.
• Tool kit for home or car. A universal option is a set of wrenches. He is needed not only in the car, but also in the household.
• Accessories for cars and car care products. No car enthusiast will refuse good cosmetics for polishing a car panel or a new deodorant in the car interior. The main thing is not to forget about those who do not drive a car.
• Organizer, good notebook or notepad in a reliable strong cover. Such a gift is useful not only for office workers, although it is primarily for them, like personalized pens with engraving.

Gifts that are made with their own hands leave in the soul of those who receive such a gift more warm emotions and memories - this is a fact. But if there are a lot of men in the team, it will not work to dump all the work on one needlewoman, she may not be able to cope on time. Therefore, women will have to do this together and together. Here are a few ideas on how to quickly and inexpensively present creative home-made gifts to male colleagues.

• A bouquet of roses and tanks of socks. Multi-colored pairs of socks are twisted into roses in a spiral, and then each is stabbed with a small French pin. You can pack the bouquet with wrapping paper, for example, khaki. Such bouquets are much better than ordinary socks in factory packaging. And also there are a lot of ideas on how to make a tank or a car out of 2-3 pairs of men's socks - in this form, socks may well be present in the list of potential gifts.
• Chocolate dumbbells. For such a gift you will need wrapped chocolate bars and a cardboard blank - a dumbbell. Chocolates simply glue the workpiece so that visually it turns out a solid sports equipment resembling a real one.
• Bath set. He will need inexpensive bath towels and bath hats. A roll is rolled up from the towel, its end is decorated with a hat. Under the heading below the fields, paper eyes are attached to the towel - it turns out a bath man. You can add it with a ribbon on the “neck” with the inscription “Since February 23!”, As well as homemade soap, if in the team one of the ladies knows how to make a good home soap.
• Magnetic bracelet for nails, paper clips and nuts. This option is suitable for men who often do something. On your hand, such a wide bracelet of modest shades will be an indispensable assistant - it will be possible to attach all small metal parts to it, because it is they that are most often lost in the process of disassembling or assembling something by men. A magnet is simply sewn - it is a wide double strip, inside of which a magnetic tape is sewn.
• Homemade key rings. You can use any materials and techniques. The main thing is that the design recalls the occasion on which these things were created.
• Fortune cookies. Ordinary homemade cookies are baked, a small note with a comic prediction is placed inside each. They give such sweets in boxes made by themselves.
• Homemade registered cards. Each man will be pleased to receive a card with his own portrait and personal wishes. To do this, you can use the photographs of colleagues and funny army cartoons into which it is enough to insert the face of your colleague. To produce such a gift you need ladies who can draw and sketch well.
• Great photo collage whose heroes will be men working in a team. It can be hung in a prominent place, thereby creating a festive mood for all members of the stronger sex.

It will be great if the ladies complement the festive meal with an entertainment program - musical and poetic gifts, funny scenes and improvisations, contests in which men who are lucky with a good attitude and delicious food can show themselves as real heroes.

To make the gift not only useful, but also uplifting, you should think about interesting, funny, comic presentations to the male team. Here are some interesting ideas.

• Beer mugs. This is a win-win option, especially if you treat it with a bit of humor. There are lots of series of humorous beer mugs, the price of which starts at 150 rubles. If the budget is more serious, then present the set “USSR Beer Mugs”, which includes two massive glass beer mugs, as in the Soviet-era beer mugs. With such circles, your colleague will not be ashamed to host a friend.
• Folding bucket or chair. Such things are useful in the garage, and fishing, and in the car, so they will certainly cheer up the heroes of the occasion.
• Unusual forms for freezing ice, for example, in the form of a grenade or a bomb. Such ice served to drinks for guests will surely cause delight, the owner will be pleased.
• Multifunctional opener. It can be with knives, a corkscrew and a host of other functions. A good man will not be superfluous.
• Funny alcohol sets. For example, a beer mug complete with a stack with the inscription “Money down the drain” or chess, which consists of small pieces, glasses and a board. You can give two types of drinks to the set - cognac and vodka, for example, so that a man can try to play a trial game. The usual rules are chess.
• Souvenir breathalyzer. This is a labyrinth with a ball. It shows the degree of intoxication of the owner, depending on whether he managed to bring the ball through the maze to the end.
• Name cartoons for each of the male employees. You can order them from photographs. Try to convey in cartoon the main character traits and the best qualities of each of your colleagues.
• USB desktop fan in the form of a pistol or bomb. This is a great gift for an office worker.
• Antistress toys. Their choice is great. Which ones are right for your colleagues is up to you.

As a general gift for the entire team of men, you can consider buying a basketball hoop and ball in their office version (warm up at lunch time), you can give the whole team a hike for an exciting quest or paintball. In recent years, draws have been gaining momentum, which are arranged by people and organizations specializing in this. For example, on the eve of a man's holiday, your office may be attacked by masked robbers with weapons, or by tax inspectors or police officers.

What other options for unusual gifts with a fair amount of sense of humor can be presented to your male colleagues, worth considering in more detail.

• Mini punching bag. This is a desktop version, on which, despite its small size, it is quite possible to take out the bad mood and setbacks if the day has not been set in the morning.
• Own oil well. This is an original souvenir with a rubber mass inside that perfectly imitates oil. You can touch it and do not get dirty. She does not have an unpleasant pungent odor. Such a souvenir is presented with the wishes of wealth and prosperity.
• Souvenir "Worker". This is a figure of a tired worker. If you press the button on your stomach, she will be interested in whether you want to work, and then recommend the epic "go to bed to sleep, so that everything goes away."
• Motorists will like a talking cigarette lighter, who reacts to approaching his hands with the phrase "Do not go under the arm!".
• Beer helmet. This is a helmet in the shape of a helmet, equipped with a duct system.It is enough to put it on your head and lower the tube into the drink - everything works, but your hands are free.
• Strip circles. This is a good gift for a young team with a normal sense of humor (older colleagues may not understand the donors' creativity). When the contents of the mug are heated, female figures on it will undress, and as tea or coffee cools, they will dress back.
• Mobile alarm. This is a great gift for men who are always late for work. To turn off this one, you will have to leave a cozy bed in any case, because for this you first need to catch the alarm, because it runs, flies, crawls, rushes and tries in every possible way to dodge the owner who is not satisfied with the awakening.
• Flash drive of unusual design. Both useful and very nice. For example, you can give your colleagues a flash card in the form of a bullet, a grenade, an underwater mine or a tank, a car and other things traditionally associated with men.
• Hammocks for legs. This is a great present for office workers who have to sit in one place all day long. Hammocks are mounted under the desk between the side panels. In them, the legs can comfortably rest in limbo, while their owner diligently works on the boss's errand.
• Keychain with feedback to find lost keys. You can attach it to both car keys and home keys. If a man forgets where he put them, the keys will notify him of their location by the original whistle, which will be emitted in response to the whistle or clapping of the owner.
• A book with a secret. This is a great option for legal stash. It looks like a thick volume of the “Combined Arms Charter” or “Melee Tactics”, and inside there is an excellent cache for small male secrets.
• Forbes magazine with a photo of each colleague on the cover. It is made to order at an advertising agency or organizations specializing in jokes and holidays. The effect is unforgettable, but mainly on office workers, since for most men in the housing department or factory the name of the magazine can not talk about anything, then the gift will be perceived with bewilderment.

To make a holiday for men at work, it is not necessary to have a large amount of money. Even symbolic, simple, small gifts can bring a lot of pleasure and prove useful to the stronger sex. A cheap gift or an expensive one is not so important. It is much more important that the present “hit the mark” and delight the heroes of the occasion. Let's look at a few gift options that you can make in very limited budget.

• Shovel for raking money. You will need to buy the simplest sapper shovel (price from 200 rubles), stick souvenir coins on it - the gift is ready. After the holiday, when a man, looking at the present, is quite outlined that someday he will be raking money with a shovel, a sapper blade will find worthy use in the household.
• Diplomas, awards and certificates. Personal diplomas “To the best driver in the world”, “To the best defender of the Fatherland” and others with the name of the hero of the occasion, as well as an award medal or order will be an excellent gift. The cost of the undertaking is also low - no more than 300 rubles.
• T-shirts with funny inscriptions. The theme can be any, but it is better if it is still military-festive. And also it is worth considering the complexion and size of each man in your team. There is always a t-shirt to wear.
• Pillow in the car. The inscription can be any, for example, "I am the supreme commander!" or “Stand! Attention! ”

A good option for those who have not been able to choose something suitable for themselves from this list is the purchase of a gift certificate (their cost usually starts at 500 rubles).

Colleagues should consider unsuccessful gifts as anything that somehow affects the person’s personality and personal space, hinting at his shortcomings. For instance, It is foolish to give a certificate to a gym or pool to a team of office workers, among whom two-thirds are overweight. The impulse, of course, is understandable, it can even be considered good, but such a gift will certainly cause resentment. Be calm, on March 8, your men will surely take revenge on you with the same coin.

Given the degree of closeness of the relationship (and she’s business with colleagues), don’t give away items of clothing, accessories, such as underpants, swimming trunks, belts and ties. The same prohibition applies to perfumes. The only acceptable option is a gift certificate to the perfume chain, where a man can choose for himself the fragrance that he likes best. Avoid useless gifts.

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