My Go-To Bridal Shower Gift Is Funny and Useful at the Same Time — Shopping

As a market editor, I get to go to all these fun press appointments and see products before they hit the stores. I'm treated to a sneak peak of soon-to-be-released goodies at Target, World Market, West Elm, and more. It's also my job to write or oversee all the gift guides we do here at Kitchn. So you'd be correct to assume I have all sorts of personalized present ideas for everyone in my life.

And yet I have a go-to gift that I almost always give my friends at their bridal showers. (For what it's worth, I also have a go-to wedding gift. See: The Best Wedding Gift I Received.)

It's a two-part gift and it has never let me down. Here goes.

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