Christmas is a snowball’s throw away and we’re knee-deep in watching comfy reruns of the Harry Potter movies. Because it’s been a tough year, we want to get you Pandas into the holiday mood. The team here at Bored Panda thinks that the best way to do this is to show off some of the most heartwarming Christmas gifts that surprised people in the best possible way.
Prepare your faces for smiling too wide, get your Christmas stockings ready for all the cheer you’re about to find, and remember to upvote your fave pics. Let us know which pics inspired you the most and we’d love to hear about the best Winter holiday surprise you’ve ever gotten or given, too!
Whatever your gift, it’s the intent and the emotions behind it that count. You might get a lonely sock for Christmas, but it can mean the entire world to you if you’re like Dobby the house-elf. Similarly, you might open your stocking to find the brand new tech gadget you’ve been eyeing, but it’ll barely mean anything if your Secret Santa only did it because they felt pressured and ran out of options (‘Spirit of Giving’ batteries not included).
Bored Panda was curious to learn about how surprises work on a psychological level and what to do if you feel like nothing can surprise you anymore. So we reached out to Natasha Page, an accredited BACP Integrative Counselor and Psychotherapist, as well as the founder of ‘My Little Therapy Box,’ a therapeutic resource that helps support people’s emotional health. Read on to see what Natasha told us.
#1 An Elementary School Bus Driver Asked Every Kid On His Bus What They Wanted For Christmas. He Bought Every Child A Gift
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#2 My Girlfriend Was Unemployed Last Christmas And Couldn’t Afford A Gift For Me So She Painted This
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#3 Wholesome Christmas Gifts
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#4 The Best Christmas Present
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#5 My Brother Never Fails To Disappoint With His Personalised Christmas Gifts – This Year He Made Me A Calendar
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#6 My Wife Gave Birth To A Child That Is Not Hers, For A Couple That Has Desperately Wanted One For Over Ten Years. Surrogacy Can Be Hard, But I Witnessed Her Give The Greatest Christmas Gift Ever. I Am So Proud Of Her!
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#7 My 14-Year Old Son Built This Coffee Table For His Sister And Her Boyfriend As A Christmas Gift. It Measures 28” X 42” And Is Made Of Red Oak With Red Oak Stain And Polyurethane Finish
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#8 On Christmas Morning After We Had Opened All The Gifts, Travis Said He Had One More Big Gift For Me. I Was A Little Confused On Why He Had Gotten Me A Barstool But Once I Sat Down And Looked At Him, I Immediately Knew What Was Happening. He Later Told Me That The Stool Is From The Bar We Met
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#9 For Christmas Last Year, I Got My Alzheimer’s-Stricken Grandma This Hat As A Gift. She Thought It Was Really Fashionable And Still Wears It Around All The Time
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#10 My Friend Is Terrible At Flirting. She Asked This Guy If He Liked Bread As An Opener And A Year Later They Are Together And He Made This For Her Christmas Gift
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#11 In 1983 I Told My 14-Year-Old Girlfriend To “Just Get Me A Rock” For Christmas. She Did. I Married Her. 35 Years Later We Are Still Together, I Still Have It, And It Is The Most Precious Gift I Have Ever Received
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#12 My Friend And I Replaced Christmas With Brucemas, Where We Exchange Bruce Willis Themed Gifts Each Year. I Win Forever. (And Yes It’s Real)
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#13 Gave My Pirate-Loving Landlord His Christmas Gift Last Night: January’s Rent. In Coins. His Response: “You’re Both Awesome And A Huge Asshole.”
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#14 My Wife Found Out That 60% Seniors In Nursing Homes Have No Visitors And Get Nothing For Christmas. So She Held A Small Fundraiser And Put Together 61 Gift Bags For A Local Nursing Home. Each Bag Contains Chapstick, Lotion, Tissues, A Word Search Book A Pen, And A Blanket
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#15 My Daughter Always Steals Printer Paper To Draw On So For Christmas I Wrapped A Pack Of 500 Pages Of Paper. She Started Running Around Screaming With Excitement. Easiest Present Ever
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#16 My Grandma’s Face When She Opened The Gift I Crocheted For Her..
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#17 Christmas Gift
For Christmas, my wife got a recording from Christmas 1973, the last year her grandmother was alive before breast cancer took her. My wife wasn’t born until 1976. This is the first time she has ever heard her grandmother’s voice.
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#18 Stepdad Raised Him Since He Was 3. He Got Him Adoption Papers As A Christmas Gift
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#19 Christmas Gift From My Loving Friend
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#20 My Father Passed Away From Lung Cancer In July. Mom Had These Gifts Made For Me And My Brother. The Best Gift I’ve Ever Recieved
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#21 Oliver Got A Christmas Gift
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#22 My Mom Has Been Begging My Dad For A Dog Since Ours Passed Away In May. He Surprised Her Christmas Morning With This Gift. He’s A Man Of Few Words
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#23 This Was The Only Thing She Wanted For Christmas. I Hope This Warms Your Heart Like It Warmed Ours. This Is My Nine Year Old Daughter Opening One Of Her Gifts
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#24 Witcher Bestiary I Made As A Christmas Gift For My BF
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#25 One Of My Better Christmas Gifts
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#26 First Time In My Life Not Living Paycheck To Paycheck. Got My Parents An Early Christmas Present. They Deserve Much More, But It’s A Start
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#27 Small Thoughtful Gifts Beat The Newest iPhone Every Time
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#28 “My Grandpa Passed 7 Months Ago So This Is My Grandma’s 1st Xmas Without Him In 59 Years. For Christmas We Decided To Gift Her With Letters We Found Her & My Grandpa Wrote To Each Other In 1962 While They Were In College. He Kept Them All These Years”
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#29 Christmas Gift Convoy: Follow Up With More Stories About The 156,237 Packages We Brought To Kids In Eastern Europe
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#30 Simpsons Shoes I Painted For A Christmas Gift
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#31 The Christmas Moose, Contains 12 Gifts For My Wife. Head Is A Bit Small, But It Was All For Fun Anyhow
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#32 My Husband Turned An Old Clothing Steamer Into The Perfect Christmas Gift For Our Luigi-Obsessed Three-Year-Old: His Own Poltergust G-00!
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#33 Hands-Down The Best Gift I Got This Christmas, From My Brother
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#34 My Wife Gave Me The Best Xmas Gift Ever!
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#35 In New Zealand The Police Are Offering Free Gift Wrapping For Christmas This Year
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#36 I Surprised My Acnh Obsessed Niece With An Early Christmas Present All Handmade By Me!
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#37 For My Friends Christmas Present, I Drew Her, Our Pets And I On Our Community Farm!
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#38 It Took Me Over 160 Hours, But I Finished Knitting My Brother’s Christmas Present This Morning! Just In Time
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#39 While Cleaning Out My Grandmothers House, My Mom Found A 23 Year Old Christmas Gift To Me From My Deceased Grandfather (1998) And Currently Dying Grandmother. A Beautiful Gift From The Past That Makes Feel Close To Them Both Again Somehow
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#40 My Maths Teacher Gave Me His First Guitar Ever, A 1989 B.c.rich Ironbird, As An Early Christmas Gift, And Im Fucking Shaking! These Things Are Rare Af And Ima Treat It Like My Firstborn!
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#41 Decided Against Getting A Car In Favour Spending £1500 On Gifts For Kids Charities Every Xmas Until I Die. Did I Pick Good Games For Them?
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#42 Pillows Made From A Grandpa’s Old Shirts For The Family’s Christmas Gifts. The Grandpa Passed Away Earlier This Year
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#43 Christmas Gift From My Teens Has Proven More Useful Than Expected
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#44 My Sister Likes Bags, So I Crocheted This For Her Christmas Present
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#45 My Husband Was 3 Months Old When His Father Was Killed In A Car Accident. As A Christmas Gift To His Grandmother This Year, We Recreated An Old Photo With Our New Son
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#46 I Crocheted The Ninja Turtles For My Nephew
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#47 Homemade Christmas Gift
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#48 My Girlfriend Really Went Above And Beyond With The Christmas Gift I Got Her
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#49 Christmas Presents For His Grandcat
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#50 Secret Santa Gift
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