Holiday Thrift: 20 Thoughtful Gifts for $15 or Less

Fold your notes, messages, and nagging reminders into cranes, butterflies, boats, and other whimsical shapes that will make the words you've written look as charming as they sound. Or lessen their blow, as the case may be.

SUCK UK's Origami Sticky Notes level up boring yellow Post-Its with instructions for turning each square into one of 10 different 3D models. A little manual dexterity on your part is required too.

Got a little bone to pick? These miniature pocket knives are perfect for cutting wee bits of meat off wee tiny steaks. Or maybe, like, fork and knifin' it with a pile of buffalo wings.

The Lilly Brush pet hair remover is named not after the tidy, hairless flower, but a shedding ball of fur and fluff and floof, who herself was (perhaps erroneously) named after the tidy, hairless flower. Lilly was Lilly Brush founder Elsie Hamilton's Australian Shepherd, and the dog who taught her old-school sticky pet hair rollers and velvety scrapers were anything but the cat's meow.

This version of the Lilly Brush is their Mini Pet Remover, a 4" x 3" tool with scraper-style edges and pointed corners strong enough to dig out and ball up embedded dog, cat, rabbit, and snake fur from couches, carpet, clothes, car seats, and any other crevices it nestles into.

Do you look like your cat? I don't think I look like mine. For example, my cat, Zanzibar, has a bushy tortoiseshell coat of fur that covers his entire body, while I myself am almost entirely hairless (thanks, Remington Shortcut!) with a skin color currently somewhere between school glue and wood glue. My wife has pointed out that we both get the exact same look of disdain on our faces when we see each other, but I'm not sure that's enough to qualify us for this Match the Cats with Their Humans! memory game.

Asobu StackNGo wine glasses have many nice qualities. They are unbreakable, shatterproof if dropped, since they're made of patio- and poolside-safe plastic.They're also ultra-portable, with the stem folding into the 10-ounce cup to conserve space, and make packing up at the end of your wine drinking session a lot cleaner - no errant drops of Cab dripping all over your blankets, clothes, and car seats. And finally, StackNGo wine glasses are stackable, snapping onto one another to keep them tidy and together during transport.

Readers, Dudes, Chums, The Vault is here to encase your valuables, and protect everything from your sunglasses to your phone to your crucial implements of EDC during your summer travels, outdoor adventures, and accidental butt placements right on top of your fragile shit.

Chums Vault Cases, available in Black and Realtree, are 6.5" x 3" x 3" hard shell exteriors made to protect glasses, electronics, and other small items from bumps, knocks, drops, and crushes. Unlike standard sunglasses hard cases, The Vault is sized to store several items, and has a soft interior lining with a mesh pocket to cradle and separate them.

Let me show you the brass OTF keychain knife in my pocket. Woooommp! There's the 1.26" blade. Out the front it goes.

This OTF keychain pocket knife is 4.25" long overall when open, 2.9" when closed. It has a brass handle and retractable 3Cr13 stainless steel blade. According to seller SZHOWORLD, "With this pocket knife, life is more convenient." And to think, I've been waiting for VR meetings and self-driving cars.

Now if my Aunt Jan saw a spot on her windshield, she'd lick her finger and aggressively wipe at it until it came off. Even if it were in one of those impossible-to-reach spots where the windshield slopes into the dashboard, she'd Go-Go Gadget her arms to get at it. No one, neither young nephews who just ate chocolate, nor vehicular glass smudged with dead bugs, escapes the Lee Press-On nails and saliva of my Aunt Jan!

For the rest of us, an Invisible Glass Reach & Clean Windshield Tool might come in handy. A spade-shaped head attached to an 18" wand, the Reach & Clean helps make tight spots, small crevices, and elusive parts of your auto (or home) glass easier to access and buff to a streak-free shine.

I think I will approach lawn mower blade sharpening the same way I approach kitchen knife sharpening: when the blades get too dull to cut the grass properly anymore, I'll just buy a new lawn mower.

Those of you who want to give Grizzly Lawn Gear's Lawn Mower Blade Sharpener Drill Attachment Kit a go, you'll get a set of 3 corundum sharpening stones that pop onto the power drill you already own. The kit also includes a mower blade balancer to help with even sharpening, and a pair of latex gloves to keep your hands free of burns and bruises.