Timeless Holiday Ideas for Every Taste and Budget

(Sponsored Content) —It’s no surprise that retailers predict technology will be at the top of many holiday wish lists again this year. But if you are not techno-savvy, or not comfortable with the expense of high-tech gifts, there is good news: low-tech and no-tech gifts can still fit every taste and budget. You can also purchase practical, useful gifts that won’t just collect dust on the shelf.

Simple, non-technology gifts will always be in style. Items, like food, linens, cookware, lotions and scents and old-fashioned toys can be wonderful gifts to give and receive for people who are not necessarily plugged in to the high-tech trend.

Here Are Tips for Low-Tech Gifts Sure to Enhance Any Holiday Wish List:

Low-tech doesn’t mean leaving good engineering behind. A Case knife, for example, is an engineering marvel and still a great gift for practically any guy in your life. Tech-heads might enjoy the simplicity and elegant engineering of well-made mechanical devices, like a hand-cranked emergency radio and flashlight.

Food is a personal gift. Nearly everyone loves to indulge at the holidays. While chocolate Santas are always welcome, don’t forget that your food gift can be anything the person loves, from their favorite homemade granola to something that may evoke memories of childhood and a simpler time, like a selection of Grandma-style jams. Kitchen aids are also a great gift for anyone with even a modest interest in the culinary arts.

Items that help cooks make their own pasta, cider and ice cream blend a personal touch with practicality and nostalgia. Lehman’s hand-crank ice cream freezers and noodle makers are always popular sellers at the holidays.

Organic and green gifts make both the giver, and the recipient feel good. Giving a green gift is not only sensible and caring, but also trendy and contemporary. Industries from home improvement to home goods are now marketing eco-friendly products and services, many of which are great gifts. For example, Lehman’s organic cotton kitchen linens are made from products organically grown and harvested according to agricultural sustainability practices.

Everyone needs a little pampering now and then, and personal care items can do the trick. If you’re tired of giving the same old scented lotions, try something different, but still tried and tested, like Pure Emu Oil, which has been used by Australian aborigines for thousands of years to combat the signs of aging. You can find something for even the manliest of men who might think personal care is too feminine for them. Lehman’s carries old-fashioned Bag Balm, the moisturizer of choice for decades for farmers and laborers whose work is hard on the hands.

Choose children’s toys that exercise their imaginations and their whole bodies, not just their video-game control fingers. The lowest tech toys like an old fashioned wagon, kazoo or hand-made doll can provide maximum imagination-building. Plus, you’ll feel more connected to the child by giving them the kind of toy you played with yourself. Lehman’s stocks dozens of toys and games made in the United States.