37 Gifts Your Sister is Sure to Love (Even if She’s Really Picky)
The perfect presents for birthdays, holidays, and bribery.
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Sisterhood is an interesting relationship, to say the least, so deciding what makes the best gifts for sisters is a perplexing topic. It’s just as hard as finding the perfect gift for your best friend and way harder than picking presents for boyfriends (yes, plural). From birth, a sister is somehow your built-in life partner and sworn enemy at the same time. That bond will ebb and flow, but in the end, a sister is someone who’s seen you—all of you—during every era of your life, even the really embarrassing phase you don’t talk about. Anyone you endured that much with is worth cherishing.
Whether it’s Hanukkah, her birthday, or you’re attempting to win her back after a nasty fight, the stakes are high to knock it out of the park with the perfect gift. If you don’t, she’ll hold it over your head forever. As someone who both is a sister and has a sister, I can speak to the fact that she or I would love any of these gifts, so you know they hold up. (And should my sis hypothetically see this because she’s looking for inspo: The list is in no particular order, but I want the Prada bag, TYVM.) Below, find 37 of the best gifts for your sister.
She might have killed your goldfish when you were kids, but she’d never let her beloved plants die.
If you happen to still share a bathroom with your sister, this is actually a gift for yourself, too. One pineapple High Noon, please.
Brooklinen Heathered Cashmere Core Sheet Set
From building forts out of sheets to gifting each other deluxe sets, you two have come a long way.
Look, whatever it takes to get her to dump that douchebag. But maybe open this one when mom isn’t in the room.
Apple Apple AirTag
Attach it to a key fob, put one in checked luggage, or even slide it in a wallet—who among us couldn’t use a few of these handy trackers? (Pro tip: put one in the pocket of that jacket she loves to steal from you and catch her red-handed.)
She’s the reason “Running Up That Hill” is stuck in your head constantly. Consider this payback.
Hardie Grant Pasta Grannies: The Secrets of Italy’s Best Home Cooks
Some might call her unwavering taste for ravioli and espresso martinis predictable, but you find the reliability comforting.
Gone are the days of sneaking out behind your parents’ garage to puff, puff, pass whatever homemade smoking contraption you two MacGyvered.
Where else can you get meat-less orange chicken, a Supergoop dupe, and $10 champagne that doesn’t give you a hangover all in one place?
Hearst Magazines ELLE Magazine Subscription
Words to describe the ELLE reader: beautiful, intelligent, cool, sexy, iconic, graceful, humble—just to name a few. If that sums up your sis, you know what to do.
You know the fastest, truest way to her heart is through her fur baby.
Sisters who trapped their Sims in door-less rooms together, stay together. Relive your family-computer glory days with a modern upgrade.
Away Travel The Bigger Carry-On Flex
Now you just have to pick a destination you both actually agree on for your next girl’s trip.
If believes avocado toast is an actual art form, she needs this toaster.
Whether or not you share her love of true crime podcasts and Only Murders in the Building, you know she’s done enough research to get away with the perfect crime. So, yeah, stay on her good side.
Drunk Elephant The Littles™ Skincare Travel Set
Does your sister watch excessive amounts of Dr. Pimple Popper and frequently bemoan that she “should have studied dermatology”? You may be entitled to financial compensation.
Mario Badescu Drying Lotion Blemish Spot Treatment
Spot treatment as a gift from literally anyone other than you? So offensive. But from her sister? Heartfelt. <3
Not that you’d ever call her disorganized to her face, but...let’s just say time management is not her strong suit.
You’ve heard her say, “I’m staying in tonight,” more times than you can count. At least she can look cool in this stylish pair of slippers that she can rock in or out of the house.
Jill and Ally Real Housewife Historian Candle
She’d sooner give up wine than miss an episode of RHOBH or Below Deck. Maybe this is the year she finally applies to be the next Bachelorette.
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