Name: THRIFTED LUXURY DESIGNER GIFT GIVING GUIDE! Christmas Gift Ideas 2021
Uploaded: 2025-06-19T18:05:32.000Z
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I always leave it to the very last minute.

I can never think of what to get someone.

I'm the sort of gift giver that will keep their ears pricked the entire year listening to things that you say and maybe once in passing you mention that you need a new tennis racket and I will store that information away in my brain for a year and then I'll get you one of those.

I always need help buying gifts but you know who doesn't need help?

She posted a gift giving guide the other day and she is excellent.

I have never met a better gift giver in my entire life than Caitlin.

Caitlin will think about your gift the whole year.

She'll buy it like six months in advance.

It'll be so well thought out and it'll be so you to a tee.

So if you're like me and you struggle with gift giving you might sometimes rely on gift giving guides.

There's an online store in Australia called The Iconic which sells designer items and I have the Iconic app on my phone and at the start of December the app sent me a push notification called Christmas Gift Giving Guide.

Because I'm terrible at coming up with gift ideas I decided to open it and I was having a look through and I was seeing some items here that looked familiar to me because during my online thrift shopping expeditions I'd come across many of these things and I thought you know what would be a good idea?

How about I follow The Iconic's gift giving guide but I try to get all of these things thrifted.

So with that I'm going to pull open The Iconic's gift giving guide and we're going to go through item by item and compare what I was able to thrift to what's on The Iconic's website.

So the very first item that was on The Iconic's list was a throw.

This one is by the brand Kip and Co and it's $270.

Directly next to it they've also got a wool blend knitted blanket for $120.

So while I was online thrift shopping I was searching for terms like wool or throw blanket and I was able to find this.

This throw blanket from Freedom which is an Australian furniture and homeware store was $40 on salvos.

It came brand new, it's got its price tag on the back, it was $130.

It's 130 by 150 centimeters and it's made of 100% cotton.

The throw that was on The Iconic's website was a very jarring kind of design.

It was bright kind of like pink and orange and something that's colored like that is a little bit risky to buy for someone if you don't know what the color scheme of their house is.

But this one being grey, I feel like grey is very neutral.

Grey can blend in with a multitude of different aesthetics in someone's house so if you're going to grab a blanket or a throw for someone I would say to be on the safe side you could get it in white, grey, black.

Prints and patterns and all of that it's a little bit harder if you don't know how someone styled their house.

But luckily for me I do have a few friends with very very specific styles that are easy to shop for and that's where these cushions come in.

Just a couple of items down on the gift giving guide was a Kip & Co velvet tassel cushion $99 which inspired me to want to keep an eye out for cushions while I was these.

This pair of cushions was $15 on salvos and as soon as I saw them I knew exactly who I was going to get them for.

This print, this pattern, this style is quite literally the most Tiasha thing I've ever seen in my life possibly because my friend Tiasha actually has a dress with almost an identical pattern on it.

There's a brand in Australia called Gorman and Tiasha loves all of the fun colourful prints that Gorman releases every year and when I saw this I thought that is so Gorman-esque.

Tiasha is going to lose her mind and I probably should have said a disclaimer at the start of this video if you're one of my friends maybe don't watch this because there's almost certainly something in this pile that I'm going to be giving to you so unless you want to spoil it for yourself maybe maybe hold off.

She's just she's probably she's just sitting there like yes Alex.

So the one single cushion from the Iconics Gift Giving Guide was $100 and I got both of these for $15.

The Iconics Gift Giving Guide was filled with sunglasses and I knew that I wanted to get my mum a pair of sunglasses for Christmas so I was keeping an eye out for sunglasses on salvos that were brand new with tags.

I wanted to make sure that they were brand new because I feel like it wouldn't be so great to give someone a bunged up scratched up pair of sunglasses that's been in someone's handbag so I wanted to try and find some that were new and luckily for me I found not just a new pair of sunglasses but a brand new pair of sunglasses from my mum's favorite brand.

All the sunglasses in the Iconics Gift Giving Guide were about $200.

These were a little bit expensive but they weren't $200.

These were $95 and these are the brand Auriton.

I wouldn't put it up there with Louis Vuitton or anything but it's like one of those higher end Australian brands and these Auriton sunglasses came brand new with their tag.

The tag says that they were $235 when they were new.

They're called the Auriton Drift Away sunglasses.

They have this beautiful silver detailing at the side.

I was very tempted to keep these for myself but I do need prescription lenses so every time I get a pair of sunglasses, as much as I love them, I can really only use them in photographs because I can't drive with these on.

There's not a single scratch or a mark on them and to get a $235 pair of sunglasses for $95, that's a great bargain and a lot of people leave comments for me and they say, Alex, your thrift stores are so expensive.

If you don't know, thrift stores in Australia, they're charity stores and they sell items at higher prices so that they can make more money to give to charity.

Our charity stores are run for charity, you know, so the money that they receive from the sales goes to feeding the homeless, sheltering them, providing them with medical care, things like that.

So that's why things cost a bit more in the thrift stores that you see in my videos.

It's because they're trying to make more money for charity.

So the fact that I was able to get a brand new pair of sunnies, $95, that $95 goes to charity.

I've saved $140 in buying these secondhand, even though they're new.

So this, to me, this was an amazing bargain.

I'm actually the most excited about these.

The only problem with these is that they didn't come with a case.

So the case that Salvo sent them in is just like a, it's just like a generic kind of cheap thing.

So it would have been much nicer if I could have had like a an Auraton case or a really nice sunglasses case for these to go in.

So that is something that I would maybe keep an eye out for new.

Another white t-shirt from the brand Camilla and Mark.

Now that's a very oddly specific thing to try to thrift, like a white t-shirt from Camilla and Mark.

So instead I said to myself, I'm going to try and keep an eye out for anything from Camilla and Mark, just as a challenge to see what I could possibly get it for.

Now it might not be a white t-shirt, but it is from the brand Camilla and Mark.

This dress was $80, which seems like a lot, but this was a $650 dress when it was new.

I managed to find it on Revolve and apparently it's from eight years ago.

So it's not a new design by any means, but this is a beautiful dress.

I have a friend in mind that would look incredible in this, and I'm not going to say who, because they may be watching this.

So you guys can just keep on guessing, friends that didn't follow my instructions.

Next up on the Iconics gift giving guide is a hat.

Now they show this hat, which is called the Wesley Fedora from the brand Brixton, and it's $90.

When I saw that, it reminded me of my friend, Grace, who I went to the Easter show with a couple of years ago.

When I went in 2019, I went with Grace and Sam and Dan, and Grace went to the Akubra store that was set up at the show, and she tried on a bunch of different Akubra hats, and they were like $200, and she really wanted one, but she just couldn't decide which one that she was going to get.

And in the end, the decision was so overwhelming that she just decided to not get anything because she couldn't pick one.

Out of all of my friends, Grace is probably the only one that I see regularly wearing hats.

So when I saw the hat on the gift giving guide, I knew immediately, I was like, that's it, that's what I'm going to get Grace.

I'm going to get her an Akubra hat, just like she wanted all of those years ago that she still never got for herself.

Now, all the other things in my gift giving guide are basically brand new with tags.

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