Original New Year''s Eve gift ideas to brighten up your New Year''s Eve

Whether you choose one or the other, you can brighten up the longest night of the year with original gifts.

The tradition of celebrating the New Year dates back 4000 years

Celebrating the New Year is one of those traditions that is celebrated all over the world, regardless of culture or religion. The festivities associated with the New Year date back as far as 4000 years to Babylon, where the event was marked by a massive religious festival called Akitu. This included various rituals that lasted for 11 days in total.

In the Western world today, the New Year celebration lasts much less than 11 days, but the preparation for it is nevertheless intense and varied. Since gift-giving is an important part of the celebration of many events, it is right to add some colour to the farewell celebrations. Gifts can be quite simple, it''s just important to give them a little something to brighten up the evening for many.

Hidden Santa Claus

Gifting can be a great excuse to get together not only on New Year''s Eve, but even before it. As a prelude to New Year''s Eve, you can organise a pre-New Year''s Eve party with the main theme of selecting and wrapping New Year''s gifts. It''s not always easy to come up with ideas for New Year''s gifts, but since more heads can think better of each other, you and the other guests are sure to come up with something original to brighten up your celebrations.

What makes this gift-giving so special is guessing who bought the gift for whom - the identity of the giver is usually not revealed.

You can also organise a Hidden Santa-style gift-giving, a tradition of Christmas gift-giving where each member of a particular group of people draws a slip of paper with another member''s name on it and buys them a Christmas present. What makes this gift-giving so special is the guesswork involved in who bought the gift for whom - the identity of the giver is usually not revealed. But with Christmas long gone on the last day of December, you can arrange the Hidden Santa concept and let your imagination run wild. The choice of gifts is, of course, unlimited, but it is advisable to set a price ceiling and a price ceiling before the actual gift-giving so that there is no unnecessary embarrassment.

What else can you give on the longest night of the year?

As each individual has his or her own taste, the best way to gift a large number of people at a New Year''s Eve party in particular is to buy each guest a universal gift that will have a use value and will therefore not go in the bin when they get home.

Here are 3 New Year''s gift ideas you won''t go wrong with

• Personalised mugs

There''s not a person who doesn''t use cups, whether they''re for drinking coffee, tea or something else. And if the cup is personalised, there''s no reason at all why the recipient shouldn''t enjoy using it. You can have the name of the recipient printed on each of the cups, or personalise the cups with the gender of the recipient and add a cute joke.

• Festive biscuits

If you enjoy baking biscuits, especially in the colder months of the year, the answer is in the palm of your hand - bake festive biscuits and gift them to your guests. You can wrap them up in neat little packages and add a message to brighten up the evening.

• New Year''s decorations

If you''re handy with your hands, you can make a paper or wooden New Year''s decoration for each guest. You can also let your imagination run wild - for example, you can make ornaments for the tree, or you can make freestanding ornaments that will be waiting for your guests on the festively decorated table.

If you feel too pressed for time during the holidays to get creative, you can treat your loved ones to a chocolate gift from our online shop Mojačokolada.si.

Choose from a wide range of New Year''s gifts or make your ownpersonalised chocolates - depending on your recipient''s taste, you can not only choose the type of chocolate you want, but also the sprinkles and the wording you want to make them happy and get the New Year off to a sweet start.