Your Out Loud Christmas 2024 gift guide.
PLUS, grab your Out Loud Live tour tickets now, a bonus recco from Jessie, some confusion around advent calendars and what the hell is going on with wishlists?
Hiii Outlouders, Em Vernem here 🙋🏾♀️
It’s that time of the year when we empty our pockets for the greater good (presents for our nearest and dearest).
The Outlouders Facebook group has been kicking off with posts starting with “HELP” and ending with callouts on what people should buy their partner, friends, school teachers, that one weird neighbour you don’t really talk to but want to remain on good terms with etc.
So, we’ve decided to round up the best 20 (gift ideas, not the neighbours) and deliver our very own seasonal gift guide to save you from any stress-related freakouts over the next few weeks.
Mamamia Out Loud’s 2024 gift guide.
Gifts for teachers.
JISULIFE Handheld Mini Fan, $26.99
Daily Blooms house plant, $60
Bake with Brooki by Brooke Bellamy, $30
Personalised water bottle, $37.90
Gifts for her.
Sheet Society bed sheets, $160
Mermade hair blowdry brush, $87.20
Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk makeup kit, $225
A Kindle, $179
Gifts for him.
Shokz OpenRun Pro Wireless Bluetooth Headphones, $187
Sodastream, $87
Aura Smart Ring, $89.99
Turntable/Record player, $189
Gifts for kids.
3-wheel scooter, $59.95
Sleeping bag, $29
Portable mini karaoke set, $33.99
Digital instant camera, $44.99
Gifts for collegues.
RecipeTin Eats: Tonight cookbook, $29
SAMSIER Picnic Blanket, $27.99
Kiki.K 2025 diary, $29.99
E.S.K Evidence Skincare voucher, $50-$100
If you want more gift ideas, Mamamia has put together All the non-boring Christmas presents under $50.
Happy shopping!
More gift goodness. Run, don’t walk 🏃♀️.
It’s not like us to blow our own horn (and I say that as the #1 women’s podcast in Australia — toot toot) but, of course, THE best gift you could buy anyone this festive season is a ticket to the Mamamia Out Loud Live 2025 All Or Nothing Tour Presented by Nivea Cellular. Such a simple but brilliant gift to buy and receive. Tickets are available to purchase RIGHT NOW!
A reminder of where and when we’re touring…
Perth, 1 May, PCEC
Brisbane, 14 May, QPAC
Sydney, 17 May, ICC
Melbourne, 22 May, The Palais
Now you’ve got all the details, just click the button below to get your paws on your tickets.
Weekly Reccos 📺 📖 🎧
Just because we like you, we’ve got FOUR reccos this week. You can thank us by coming along to our live shows 😉.
Jessie wants you to watch
“It’s a doco about overconsumption, and it's about all the ways that we're manipulated into buying more.
There's this incredible scene where you can see the shores of Ghana and it'll make you feel sick seeing all the clothes washing up. And these often are clothes that have never been worn.”
In contradiction, Jessie wants you to buy
REN radiance micro polish cleanser from Mecca.
“It's the time of year where we're wearing a lot of sunscreen, more sunscreen than maybe we ordinarily do. I was getting blocked pores and lots of blemishes. I used this for a couple of weeks—all gone. I get quite obvious blackheads on my nose and I've used every letter of the alphabet to get rid of them. This has reduced their appearance. I was looking in the mirror yesterday, and I was like, ‘This is the only thing that's ever worked on them.’”
Holly wants you to follow
“She is this young chef called Poppy O'Toole and every Christmas, she does an advent calendar for potatoes. She does 24 Christmas potato dishes, and there's a new one every day. One day she'll do like glass roasted potatoes, and another she'll do mash dripping with butter. And then she'll do loaded roast potatoes. I can't cook all those things, and I'm not gonna cook all those things, but I love looking at it.
It's just drool-worthy videos of potatoes, and it's my little Christmas joy.”
I want you to download
“This wishlist app has changed my life. It’s free to download and I’ve saved so much money when it comes to gift buying. If you’re thinking about buying something, copy the url and paste it into the app. Carted will then notify you when that item is on sale or discounted. Now, I only ever buy things that are discounted. It’s also stopped me from buying things straight away. Whenever something doesn’t go on sale, I remove it from my app.
For those who are more efficient than me you can also make lists and group items together.”
You know the drill… Let us know what you think of our reccos.
From Holly ❣️
Christmas wishlists are out of control.
Dear Santa — make it stop.
I mean. You must be sick of it, too.
Once upon a time, your mailbox was full of cute home-made cards, pieces of colourful paper scrawled with kiddie-crayon, wafted up northern-hemisphere chimneys atop of winter-warming flames. Envelopes slipped into letter-boxes with SANTA, NORTH POLE printed neatly on their faces.
Now, Christmas present wishlists are all PowerPoint. Google Slides. Showcasing Canva skills.
The tweens and teens have gone corporate, and I am not here for it. I can't imagine you are, either.
Actually, f**k that, let's get real… Continue reading.
More reads for you 📖.
We covered A LOT this week and like always, we’re continuing the conversation over at Mamamia HQ. Check these out:
Here's what's really fuelling the Meghan Markle and Prince Harry divorce story.
Modern Etiquette: 23 do's and don'ts when you visit someone's home.
Did Barry Keoghan just prove Sabrina Carpenter was right about him all along?
'The "Wednesday Waffle" is the one hack that saved my friendship group.'
Think twice before you reschedule that dinner.
My worst of the week couldn’t be more clear. I disappointed a friend and she rightfully called me out on it.
I talked about this very personal story on Friday’s show and I now have a new motto: If your friend asks to see you, just say yes.
Listen to the full story on Friday’s Out Loud episode.
Or, you can read about it here.
Soo… this happened.
To be fair, I thought that Groundhog Day was a day where we celebrated the meat industry until I was well into my mid 20s (still haven’t watched the movie, pls don’t yell at me).
Now it’s your job to make us feel better:
What’s something you grew up believing only to find out it’s something completely different?
Tell us in the comments!
Listen to the full (advent calendar) chat on Monday’s show.
I also once asked where Woop Woop was exactly. In my defence, I hadn’t been in Australia all that long but still…
Wrote a whole travel piece about Goa referring to it as an island 😬