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18 Unique Gift Ideas for the In-laws That Will Make You Their Favorite or Keep Your Memory Around After Divorce

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By Keisha AndersonPublished 5 years ago 5 min read

Marriage is a beautiful thing. Perhaps you are meeting your significant others parents for the first time, or are already married and have in-laws who adore you. Or on the contrary perhaps not. Whichever way the cookie crumbles, be sure that picking and choosing gifts for the in-laws is never an easy feat. Below you will find 18 unique and amazing gift ideas from underrepresented and small business that will surely make your in-laws your favorite or keep your memory around well after divorce.

Moosh-Walks

Price Range: $16.00-$45.00

www.mooshwalks.com

No in-law household is complete without the pitter patter of little feet. Whether your soon-to-be partner is a single child or has ten nieces and nephews that attack you like a lion on a gazelle upon contact. Be sure that they will wear these socks while doing so.

Aromatherapy Heat-able Slippers

Price Range: $25.00-48.00

www.pantuss.net

Let's just say that "Monster-In-Law" will be a thing of the past when she puts her claws in these heat-able slippers with insoles that you warm in the microwave. Infused with lavender and flax seed oil to relax even the grumpiest of creatures.

Aromatherapy Heat-able Slippers

Red Maps

Price Range: $19.00-69.00

www.redmaps.com

Who doesn't like to visit exotic and new places? Wherever your in-laws go, with or without you, let's just say these maps will keep them entertained and busy for hours. Each map specifically targets all of the wonderful exciting things to do in each location. It's like giving them their own pocket-size travel agent. If needs be, each map comes laminated so rest assured it will outlast the marriage and be around even after your gone.

Red Maps

Family Birthday Boards

Price Range: $33.99

ETSY: RusticChicDesignsInc

Forgetting birthdays will be a thing of the past for your in-laws, even if they don't include yours, on this thoughtful gift!

Etsy - Rustic Chic Designs Inc.

Personalized Cutting Board

Price Range: $159.00-$167.00

Created by: Kim Strassner and Mike Pararas

Those awkward family dinners will become less awkward with this gift. Food prep will be different and special as conversations about the beauty of this piece will be around long after your welcome. Fully customizable to display any message to your liking. Even if it happens to be "I hate you".

Fully Customizable Cutting Board

Haitian Coffee from Cantave De Saint Marc

Price Range: $18.00

www.cantavedesaintmarc.com

For the fanciest of taste buds, your in-laws will surely enjoy their morning cup of coffee, along with their conversation on how you probably visited Haiti and built villages with the orphan children. After all, that is how you obtained this delicious coffee. Grown and harvested in Haiti, hand-picked and packed by local natives. Organic with hints of chocolate and fruit. It's so good, you'll be good in their eyes, until they finish their cup of coffee and then you're on your own.

Haitian Coffee (Black owned)

Family Tree Charts

Price Range: $16.55

ETSY: FreshRetroGallery

What better way to say "Hey, I'm a part of your family now!" than a customizable family tree. Suggest it become a family activity to complete it. Just make sure they include your name this time.

Customizable Family Tree Chart

Olive and Cocoa Assorted Gift Boxes

Price Range: $48.00-$138.00

www.oliveandcocoa.com

Picky in-laws are a thing of the past with these gourmet treat boxes from Olive and Cocoa. There will surely be something for everyone, except you of course.

Olive and Snack Box

Assorted Chocolates and Candy Box

Relationship Gratitude Jar Set

Price Range: $50.00

www.studiopennylane.org

Do your in-laws fight like two crackheads over a crack pipe? Well then this gift is for them! Created specifically to evoke a sense of gratitude. Their company motto is "Change your thoughts, change the world, one penny at a time". Every time a person adds a penny to the jar they think of something positive or grateful about the other. Don't be surprised if you visit after a year and the jars are empty, maybe they cashed them in at CoinStar or something.

Relationship Gratitude Jar Set

WFan Hand Free Fan for Kids

Price Range: $25.95

www.timeconceptinc.com

Back to those beautiful kids again. But this time when they start to get on your nerves, send them outside to play with these light hand-free fans. No more complaining about how hot it is outside and that's why they must stay in and irritate you. Guaranteed to keep them cool for hours in humid weather. Comes in multiple colors for the pickiest of kids.

Hand Free Fans for Kids

Sweets CBD Honey

Price Range: $30.00

www.shopthechillplace.com

Do you have "chill" in-laws? Yes? No? Maybe? Well, figure it out with this unique CBD infused sunflower honey. If they shout, "How dare you bring weed in our home?!" Well then, obviously they are not chill. With its anti-inflammatory properties, you'll love the calmness and relaxation it evokes in your in-laws with one taste. And if someone asks what CBD is just say chocolate berry dragon-fruit, that will entice the skeptics of them to try it.

Sweets CBD Honey (Black-owned)

Estelle Colored Wine Stemwear (Amethyst)

Price Range: $175.00

www.estellecoloredglass.com

Fancy is an understatement for these wine glasses as they are handblown in Poland by glass artisans. Prove to that judgmental mother-in-law that you've got good taste and don't mind spending the extra money so that she stays tipsy, happy, and QUIET...in style of course.

Estelle Wine Glasses (Black-owned)

Try the World Giftbox

Price Range: $29.00-35.00 per box (monthly subscription option)

www.trytheworld.com

COVID-19 put a damper in the in-laws travel plans? Send them a "Try the World" giftbox. Each box contains snacks and foods from different areas of the world. Handmade and packaged by the local natives. Each time they open a snack and take a bite, it will remind them of the places they have gone or will go. And, that their child might have made a good choice of a partner after all. Send it monthly to keep it going.

World Snack Box

BarxBuddy

Price Range: $39.95

www.barxbuddydevice.com

You can't forget Scruffy on this list! It is an ultrasonic hand device used to quiet the noisiest of dogs humanely. To bad it doesn't work for your mother-in-law.

Barx Buddy

Vulgar Teacup and Saucer Set

Price Range: $22.00

www.vulgarteacups.com

There motto is "Fine China. Filthy Mouth." There is definitely someone in your in-laws that fit that description oh to well. Hopefully it won't be your tears in their cups and plates.

Vulgar Tea Cups

Gusto Spice Barbecue Spice Gift Set

Price Range: $39.00-$48.00

Etsy: Gusto Spice

This gift is perfect for that quiet father-in-law whose peace is his barbecue grill in the backyard, away from the nags of his wife, whom you like to join to get out of her target range. Until he tells you to get lost...

Gusto Spice Barbecue Rubs

Long Distance Friendship Lamps

Price Ranger: $85.00-$170.00

www.uncommongoods.com

What better way of letting your in-laws know that you are thinking of them than these friendship lamps. You get one and they get one. Whenever you touch your lamp it will light up and theirs will light up also. Use it to remind them that you're thinking of them or to stay away. Either way it is a fantastic way of showing how much you care.

Long Distance Friendship Lamps

Lifetime of Adventures Together - Couple Passport Holder Set of Two

Price Range: $34.99

Etsy: Giftswithluv

What better way to show your in-laws love than with these cute, matching passport holders. They come fully customizable and are selectively hand-crafted made with leather. They will last forever! So send your in-laws away in style and grace, reminding them of you every time they use their passports, even if you don't plan on sticking around.

Customizable Passport Holders

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