Gifts for Coworkers Under $25

Office gifting is a genuinely hard brief. Too cheap reads as an afterthought. Too expensive is somehow worse, because now they owe you something. And the person almost certainly has a mug already.

Twenty five dollars is the bracket where this gets solved, and the trick is not to buy a generic thing at a generic price. Buy the specific joke. A gift that names the exact thing somebody complains about every Tuesday is worth more than something twice the price that could have gone to anyone.

Which is most of what the AI Made Me Do It range is for.

Under $15: stickers, which are better gifts than people expect

A vinyl sticker sounds like a nothing gift right up until you watch someone put it on their laptop lid and leave it there for three years. It handles weather, sun and the back of a water bottle.

I Prompted It. Now I Have to Maintain It. - Funny AI Vinyl Sticker, Design B See it →

My Agent Is on a Side Quest - Funny AI Vinyl Sticker, Design A See it →

We Have Verified Absolutely Nothing. - Funny AI Vinyl Sticker, Design A See it →

Stickers work as gift tags as well as gifts, which is useful when you are buying for a whole team.

$20 to $23: the mug, if you want it to be the actual gift

For a leaving present, a work anniversary, or the Secret Santa where you drew someone you actually like, the mug is the move. Both formats below are ceramic, dishwasher and microwave safe, and the print is fired into the glaze rather than stuck on top, so it will not peel off in a break room dishwasher.

We Have Verified Absolutely Nothing. - Funny AI Black Glossy Mug, Design A See it →

My Agent Is on a Side Quest - Funny AI Black Glossy Mug, Design A See it →

Vibe Coded. Human Patched. - Funny AI Color-Inside Mug, Design B See it →

My Agent Is on a Side Quest - Funny AI Color-Inside Mug, Design A See it →

For Secret Santa and white elephant: the cap is usually $20 or $25, and everything on this page fits under it. A mug is the one people quietly hope to draw. Two stickers and a magnet is the one people trade for.

What not to buy

Anything that has to sit on a desk and do nothing. Desk toys get a laugh on the day and are in a drawer by February. The test we use is whether the person would reach for it on an ordinary Tuesday. A mug passes. A tiny motivational cactus does not.

Ordering for a date. Every piece is made after the order comes in, so allow about two weeks if it is for a specific day. Orders over $50 ship free, which is roughly two mugs, and worth knowing if you are buying for more than one person.