The same canvas print, written for christmas.
The same canvas print, written for wedding.
The same canvas print, written for baby.
The core case. A £5 limit, a colleague you know moderately well, and a personalised gift that is not a novelty sock. The in-joke is what makes it work.
Increasingly common as a way of cutting Christmas spending. A small canvas of a family photograph fits the cap and is worth keeping, unlike most gifts bought to a limit.
One canvas each of the same team photograph, ordered together, comes in well under most per-head budgets and clears the free-delivery threshold in a single order.
A person leaving in the same week as the Christmas party. A small canvas works for both occasions without needing two separate gifts.