Merry Spending: Find the perfect pressie

03 December 2015 - 02:05 By Staff Reporters

It's Christmas time and that means spending money on gifts - but what you buy will depend on how you feel about your nearest and dearest. ADOREA Sony PlayStation 4 This isn't just a gaming console, it's an all-round online entertainment system - but be warned, it could swallow vast chunks of your life. Available widely including at Dion Wired. Prices from around R6000. www.dionwired.co.za/ - Yolisa MkeleThe Graphic Club was relaunched earlier this year when the daughter of artist Fred Schimmel, who founded it in the '60s, discovered a treasure trove of prints by some of our best artists. Ideal to make good art affordable. Get something great for less than R5000 or even as little as R1500. Shop online, graphicclub.co.za - Graham WoodOnly 1760 bottles of the De Toren Z Decade 2013 were produced to celebrate 10 years of making Merlot on the Polkadraai Hills. Presented in a lacquered box, it's available only from the estate at R400 a bottle. A seriously class gift. www.de-toren.com - Neil PendockBob Dylan: All the Songs - The Story Behind Every Track by Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon (Black Dog & Leventhal). A lavishly illustrated, 700-page trawl through every song - all 429 of them - and recording sessions during Dylan's remarkable53-year career. R807, loot.co.za - Andrew DonaldsonAC Cobra. Nothing says I will love you forever better than cruising with the wind in your hair for kilometres in a Cobra - before you have to tinker with the gearbox on the side of the road. But think of all the people who will wave at you and how cool you're going to look waiting for the Automobile Association to arrive. Automart.co.za R300000 to R519890. - Sylvia McKeownLOVEA plane ticket to Tanzania Everyone loves a romantic adventure and the exchange rate there is not as diabolical as Europe's. Fastjet offers regular tax inclusive flights to Dar es Salaam starting at R1277. www.fastjet.com - YMConstructure: 100 Years of the JAG Building and Its Evolution of Space and MeaningThe book commemorates the centenary of the JAG building by Edwin Lutyens. Or you could try a JAG Centenary Medallion from www.samint.co.za - GWYou can tell that José Condé is an uber designer. His Stark-Condé Three Pines Cabernet 2013 has the sweptback appeal of agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks. A cult cabernet for the deeply hip. R295 from www.starkconde.myshopify.com - NPDrawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, edited by Tom Devlin. A lovingly compiled and beautifully printed history of a pioneering Canadian boutique publisher renowned for its author-friendly ethos and creative freedom. Easily the best-looking book of 2015. R1004, The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland St, Cape Town, 021-462-2425. - ADCustom-made jewellery. Take the extra time these holidays to craft something special for the one you love. You have a one-of-a-kind love so why not have a one-of-a-kind piece of jewellery to go with it, plus think of the one-of-a-kind action you'll get in appreciation. Tinsel, price determined by your budget and size of rock. - SMLIKEAdele's new album 25. No one will be able to stream it because of Mrs Adkins's refusal to put it on streaming services, so you might as well buy the album. It's available at music stores or on iTunes for R89.99 - YMMake Art Happen - T-shirt At the newly opened Work Shop New Town, Assemblage, a collaborative, non-profit effort to enable artists to share ideas, work together and exhibit. You'll find silk-screened bags and T-shirts. They have the screen at their stall so you can choose your colours and do the screen print yourself. R150. - GWThe Berrio Sauvignon Blanc 2010 R39 from www.getwine.co.za. When this wine was released back in 2012 it cost R99 a bottle. It was sharp and green and for serious Shreks only. Today it's a far better wine at one-third the price. Who said inflation is a one-way street? - NPFreshwater Life: A Field Guide to the Plants and Animals of Southern Africa, edited by Charles Griffiths, Jenny Day and Mike Picker. A new landmark single volume covering a vast range of plant and animal groups, this authoritative work will prove indispensable to outdoor enthusiasts of all stripes - whether anglers, river rafters or merely those who potter about the garden pond. R328, Exclusive Books. - ADFallout 4. Spend some time with the one you love with the biggest game of the year. It is set against the backdrop of a 1950s apocalyptic wasteland of Boston. With excellent graphics and great storyline it will be like you're part of a living movie, a 300-hour movie. Grab the popcorn. Xbox, Playstation, Steam R749. - SMFOND OFSnazzy phone cover. Nothing says you are fond of someone like a glittering, overpriced bodyguard for his or her phone. Get one you think is cool so that if the receiver thinks it is embarrassing you can pilfer it when you find it abandoned in a drawer. Available with customised covers too. The Kase, Rosebank Mall, 011-201-0800. - YMI was shot in Joburg notebook The covers of the notebooks are images taken using disposable cameras by former street children in and around Hillbrow, Johannesburg. R250, www.iwasshot.com - GWWelmoed Pinot Noir 2014R50 from the main supermarket chains. Pinot Noir prices usually start in three figures. This fresh and elegant example from Stellenbosch leads the vanguard of no-nonsense, fruit-driven styles. It's tasty too. - NPThe Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson. Bryson, always an amiable travelling companion, returns to the UK to see what's changed in the 20 years since penning his classic Notes From A Small Island and discovers, somewhat hilariously, that he's now a grumpy old man. R338, Exclusive Books. - ADThe Ladybird Book of DatingHaving a crush is the best part of summer. So, if you've got your eye on someone, this could be the present. The book is a not-so-subtle hint with this hilarious take on dating. You'll look funny, well read and sexy. Take that Tinder. Love Books, R150. - SMMEHThe free notebook you got at an event. Just wrap it and pretend you put a lot of thought into it. Widely available where speeches are made and networking is done. - YMArt Bullshit Mug. If you have to give an arty friend a mug, you can't do better than this . R89, superbalist.com. - GWStellar Wildly Wicked White R39 from www.getwine.co.zaGuava, quince and naartjie in a bottle with a name to get your dad dancing. A cringe-worthy experience, whichever way you look at it. R39 from www.getwine.co.za. - NPRun Racist Run: Journeys Into the Heart of Racism by Eusebius McKaiser. No dreaming of a white Christmas, you could say, with this grab-bag of essays on the "long-overdue conversation" from the self-proclaimed public intellectual. R240, widely available. - ADNothing You buy them nothing; life is too short to spend money on people you feel meh about. Use that money to buy drinks for new, more interesting friends. Margarita R60. - SMMOTHER-IN-LAWA broom, so she can hop on it and fly back to wherever she came from. Available from the guy in the car park, Game, Pick n Pay, or even Woolworths, for under R100. - YMArt Collector, an arty version of the game Happy Families - seems appropriate, and should help keep everyone happy. R269, Exclusive Books. - GWKrone Chardonnay Pinot Noir 2015It looks like a bubbly and the Krones are a famous fizzy family, now owned by Vinimark. But imagine the disappointment when she finds out it's as flat as the proverbial pancake. For this still wine is closed with a screw-off cork, carefully hidden under foil. Confusion and disappointment all around! R57 from www.salewine.co.za. - NPCapital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. If we had a dollar (rather than a rand) for every time we've been told how important this book is, usually by someone who has yet to read it, we'd be able to see in the New Year on a beach in Thailand. R549, Exclusive Books. - ADShark Diving Relive your favourite parts from Jaws with the person who won't shut up about your life decisions. Bonus points if you spring for the three-day package. White Shark DivingCompany, R1600 adult single dive, R10000 for three days of peace. - SM..

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