29 Cool Gifts From the Most Underrated Retailer — Uncommon Goods

This Make Your Own Hot Sauce Kit ($42) is such a fun, interesting gift. If they're a hot sauce fan, they'll be thrilled to make their own concoction. This gift set includes instructions, ingredients, and six different bottles, so they can create lots of different options.

Gift the ultimate host this Compact Swivel Cheese Board with Knives ($47-$81). There's room for so much cheese! The standard size is 13 inches, but there's also a larger 17 inch cheese board for the person who's always hosting larger events. Plus, it comes with knives, which is so brilliant.

These Blooming Lollipops ($20) are so aesthetically pleasing. Plus, they make gardening as easy as can be. You can actually eat the lollipop, and then plant the biodegradable stick and watch your plants bloom! Each kit comes with eight lollipops, and you can grow sage, lavender, marigold, basil, rosetta cosmo, mint, thyme, and baby blue eyes.

This New York Times Custom Birthday Book ($100) includes the front pages from each year since your recipient's birth, personalized with name and birth date and preserved in a library binding. It's a great way to look back over the years, and such a thoughtful gift.

Fight the power with this Nevertheless She Persisted Puzzle ($18). Plus, it makes for an excellent afternoon activity inside. The puzzle features icons like Angela Davis, Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King, and Frida Kahlo. It's a whopping 1,000 pieces, so it'll take a minute to complete, but puzzle lovers will be obsessed.

This 5-in-1 Tool Pen ($25) is such a cool trinket. It's a pen, stylus for a tablet, screwdriver, ruler, and a bubble level. Not only is it super useful, it's affordable too, and makes for an excellent stocking stuffer for the person who's always multitasking.

Help someone make breakfast fun again with this Playful Sports Mugs ($25). It also comes in hockey, baseball, softball, and soccer versions, so you can gift them their favorite sports mug. This will be perfect for their morning cup of coffee or a quick bowl of cereal or soup.

We always love advent calendars, and this one is no exception. If they're obsessed with their daily cup of tea, they'll love this 24 Days of Tea Advent Calendar ($36). There are so many different flavors they'll get to try, and hopefully find a new favorite.

You can customize these Personalized Family Mugs ($32) to look like your loved ones. It's a great gift to give if you're all together for the holidays. Plus, now no one can "mistakenly" steal anyone's holiday coffee mug, because we all know each person has a unique coffee recipe.

If they love live events, this is a great, thoughtful gift. It will be so touching to look back on great memories when this Ticket Stub Diary ($14) is filled up. Whether they love going to sports games and are excited about the return of football season or are live music fans, they'll be obsessed.

Put someone's favorite location on this City Map Glass ($18). They can proudly display it on their bar. There are options for dozens and dozens of American cities, as well as a few Canadian ones too! These glasses are sold individually, so you could get multiples of one city, or a few different options.

Get this Automatic Pan Stirrer With Timer ($25) for the cook. It'll be like having an extra pair of hands, and is one of those gadgets people dream of, but don't think actually exists. They'll be in love with how useful and compact it is.

We need this Personalized Whiskey Barrel ($85-$200). It's the perfect present for someone who loves their whiskey. You can buy a small or large whiskey barrel, and pick either just the barrel, a one flavor essence of Tennessee whiskey, or a three flavor essence of rum and whiskey.

The cook in your life will love this Hand-Carved Heart Serving Spoon ($20). It's such a sweet, and useful, addition to their kitchen. It's made from a group of artisans in rural Kenya, and is carved from wild olive wood. This makes for a nice stocking stuffer.

It would be so fun to use this Italian Cheesemaking Kit ($33). They can make their own mozzarella, ricotta, or mascarpone. The kit includes real cheesemaking culture and 100 percent vegetarian rennet, so their own cheese will stand up to anything they may buy at the grocery store.

If they're a serious cornhole lover, this is the gift for them. This Tabletop Cornhole ($50) will make anyone smile. It's a great secret santa or white elephant gift exchange present, because it's best enjoyed in a group, or with at least one other person.

Movie night just got that much better thanks to this Collapsible Popcorn Popper ($20). You can have yummy popcorn anywhere you go! If they're always hosting, or want to have the ultimate movie party, this is a great present, and one they'll actually use.

Camping just got better, thanks to this sweet Fishing Pole Campfire Roaster ($22). They can roast anything over the fire, and have fun doing it. Whether they're going out on a big camping trip, or just want to make some s'mores in their backyard while the weather's still nice, this is such a cute present.

Cold beer needs these Cold Beer Coats ($13) for cold weather. It also works great for sodas or seltzers. They come in four cute colors, and are a great gift for a football fan who plans on going to lots of games this season; it's great for the person who's always tailgating.

How cute are these Terrarium Candles ($27)? They're great for the plant lover in your life. You can buy the mini cactus or poppy candle, or try a large sized cactus candle for $54, but they're all winners in our books. We love the mini sizes for stockings or white elephant gifts.

As much as we love gifting bath bombs, if they don't have a bathtub, or don't like taking a bath, they may just end up taking up space in their bathroom. If they're a shower person, they need these cool Essential Oil Shower Steamers ($16). Their can choose Stress Relief, Breathe, Wake Up, or Sleep Tight depending on the mood.

Keep everything clean and sanitary with this PhoneSoap Smartphone Sanitizer ($80-$100). The person who's always sanitizing everything will be so excited to receive this. You can buy the standard phone sanitizer for $80, or the wireless charging version for $100.

They'll say yes to this Bourbon Infused Coffee ($20). I mean, who wouldn't? The coffee is infused with bourbon, so it's got a delicious aroma and flavor profile. It's caffeinated, but contains no alcohol, so it's safe to drink during the day if you'd like.

We all know a few people who have birthdays over the holiday season, and it can feel like an afterthought in the midst of Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and the new year. This Birthday Cake in a Mug ($30) is how you celebrate. It's so thoughtful and adorable.

Who wouldn't fall in love with this Peanut Butter Sampler ($40)? We'd be over the moon to receive this. It includes six flavors that take peanut butter to the next level. With options like snickerdoodle popcorn and white chocolate pretzel, these are handmade flavors you won't soon forget.

This modern take on the classic scavenger hunt requires your favorite possession — their smartphone! Game of Phones ($25) asks players to engage in a smartphone scavenger hunt in which only the fastest players will survive (just kidding, they'll win points). For $12, you can also buy expansion packs, with categories like Nostalgia, Animals, Family, and Offline.

Grow herbs and veggies with the Smart Garden Grow Kit ($100). It includes NASA-inspired soil that will give plants the proper amounts of oxygen, nutrients, and water. All you do is add water to a capsule once a month and you're set. Plus, you can buy refills of seeds for just $10.

Taco Tuesday just got that much better thanks to these Dinosaur Taco Holders ($20-$25). I mean, how fun are they? The T-rex and triceratops are so adorable, and we love this as a gift for either kids or adults this holiday season.

We'd have a lot of fun with this Infuse & Pour Alcohol Kit ($25). They can make any alcohol pairing they've ever dreamed of. Help them step up their bartending game by creating flavors like blueberry lavender, spiced navel orange, strawberry jalapeño, spicy pineapple and raspberry rose, which all pair best with specifically indicated alcohols.