These gift guides are designed to help you shop intentionally for your people this year and to remind you that small businesses are the very best place to start. I believe they make our communities go round. Most of the gifts you’ll see here, with the exception of a few, are from small businesses. They need us now more than ever and I’d love to see them thrive through the holiday season after a year of resilience and resourcefulness.

1 | consider purchasing a gift card to a local coffee shop. My favorites in Athens, GA and Greenville, SC are 1000 Faces Coffee, Nedza’s, buvez, The Village Grind, Methodical Coffee, Cohesive Coffee, Junto Coffee, and Mountain Goat.

2 + 3 | consider grabbing a bag of freshly roasted coffee from your favorite coffee roaster in town. mine are 1000 Faces Coffee, Methodical Coffee, Junto, and Bridge City Coffee.

4 | I use my Ember Mug every single day. It takes me forever to drink a cup of coffee and this keeps it warm for about 2 hours.

5 | I love that this Cosori Electric Kettle doesn’t require me to keep an eye on a stovetop kettle. Instead, I can press the button for either the coffee or tea I’m making and it will heat it up to the proper temperature.