12 New Year gift ideas for your friends in Los Angeles
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Looking for New Year gifts for your friends in Los Angeles? Los Angeles is a spread-out city where shopping happens in neighbourhoods, not in one centre. Try a Dior fragrance, an experience day or an instant camera from local shops, and add a personalized pixel game from oin (oingift.com), which is usually emailed within an hour and needs no shop at all.
12 New Year gift ideas for your friends in Los Angeles
A pixel game with a quiz of your inside jokes Our product
oin turns your friendship into a small 2D pixel game with them as the main character, generated from an authorized photo, plus two custom NPCs made from authorized photos with consent. Two letters from you open and close it, a 5-question quiz about your inside jokes rewards flowers for correct answers, and the final level is set in Almaty, Kazakhstan; New York and Tokyo are coming soon. It plays in a browser with no install, is usually emailed within an hour and costs $29.90. See how it works →
A Dior fragrance
A Dior fragrance for the group to share. Around $90-180.
An experience day
A hot-air balloon ride, a pottery workshop or an escape room, booked for a date you pick together. Around $50-250.
An instant camera
A Fujifilm Instax Mini or Polaroid Now for photos they can hold. Around $70-110.
A spontaneous trip
A ticket to a city high on their wish list, booked as a surprise with a printed day-by-day plan. Around $100-600.
Flowers
A bouquet delivered to the door with a handwritten card. Around $25-80.
A table for midnight
A booking with a view of the fireworks. Around $50-200.
A coffee subscription
Three months of beans from Blue Bottle or Trade, or a Nespresso or De’Longhi machine. Around $45-250.
A candle
Soy wax from Diptyque, Jo Malone London or Yankee, in a scent they will like. Around $20-80.
A good bottle
A bottle of wine or whisky chosen with a little research, and a card. Around $25-90.
A vision board kit
Magazines, glue and a board for the year ahead. Around $15-40.
Open-when letters
A stack of envelopes, each labelled for a moment: open when you miss me, when you need a laugh, when you cannot sleep. It costs little.
Shopping for your friends in Los Angeles
Good places to browse in Los Angeles include Melrose Avenue, Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, The Grove and the Los Angeles Flower District downtown.
Distances are long, so plan the trip or order for delivery rather than driving between several shops, and allow for traffic at rush hour.
Buying for your friends
Group gifts work best when everyone has a part in them. A shared card or a joint present from the whole circle means more than a single item.
Pick something that suits the mood of the group, not one person.
If you are shopping at the last minute
New Year gifts can be small and still feel considered. Flowers, table bookings and a personalized game arrive fast, and an oin game is usually emailed within an hour of payment.
New Year is about what comes next, so tie the gift to a plan: a trip, a class, a habit you will start together.
A gift that does not depend on Los Angeles
An oin game does not depend on where they live. It is emailed to you, usually within an hour, as a private link that works in any browser in Los Angeles or anywhere else. The final level you can play today is set in Almaty, Kazakhstan; New York and Tokyo are coming soon.
Where can I get a last-minute New Year gift for my friends in Los Angeles?
Browse Melrose Avenue, Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, The Grove and the Los Angeles Flower District downtown, or order something that arrives the same day: flowers, table bookings and a personalized game. Distances are long, so plan the trip or order for delivery rather than driving between several shops, and allow for traffic at rush hour.
Can I send my friends in Los Angeles a digital gift?
Yes. A digital gift reaches them instantly wherever they are. An oin game is generated automatically and emailed to you, usually within an hour, as a private link that works in any browser; flowers are an even quicker option.
Does oin have a final level set in Los Angeles?
Not at the moment. Today the final level is set in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and New York and Tokyo are coming soon. The game itself can still be sent to anyone in Los Angeles as a link.
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