Imagine a monthly surprise that arrives by mail, each package loaded with one-of-a-kind learning, tasting, trendy or tempting treats to delight you, your family, friends, kids, or even your pets. After extensive testing throughout the year, I’ve hand-picked the 30 best subscription boxes to gift in 2023 in the list below.
If you’re looking for a luxury-themed gift box for men, look no further than Vices. Vices curates a monthly box of the finer things/luxury items aimed at men. In one of my boxes, I received a bottle of Ten to One Caribbean Rum, a high-tech CannonballMax waterproof Bluetooth speaker, and two cans of Frenchie premium hydration – all great products that I wouldn’t otherwise know existed until opening my Vices box.
You can expect to find similar things in other boxes as well: top-shelf spirits, cool tech, and things to eat/drink. Maybe some rare chocolates, maybe some high-end coffee, maybe some delicious mixers, and more. The possibilities are virtually endless since the phrase finer things could mean just about anything.
Vice’s subscription boxes are very James Bond meets that guy from the Dos Equis commercials but in the best way possible. If you know a pretentious somebody who would appreciate getting luxury products at their doorstep every month, get them a Vices subscription.
An awesome gift for women who love to test out new beauty products, Allure’s monthly beauty box offers top-trending, editor-tested makeup, and beauty pick. This monthly gift box delivers $50-$90 invaluable cosmetics, perfumes, and more at a tiny price. Filled with fun full and travel-size products selected by Allure’s beauty experts, it also includes a mini magazine with tips, shortcuts, and step-by-step instructions for using the product inside.
You can deliver the Seattle coffee experience to anyone with a monthly subscription box from Bean Box. Each month they’ll get four gourmet coffees from Seattle’s top small-batch roasters. Every box includes a variety of single-origin coffees and artfully-crafted blends, but they get more than just a half-pound of freshly roasted whole coffee beans. They’ll also get tasting notes, roaster profiles, brewing tips, and an artisan treat, along with free shipping.
The monthly Carnivore Club Classic Box offers four to six items, or 20-32 ounces, of handcrafted cured meats and artisanal charcuterie. Each month you’ll discover new artisans as they spotlight their traditional recipes using premium cuts of meat. From French charcuterie to Italian salumi, Spanish chorizo, and even South African Biltong, it’s a completely different experience from the grocery store scene.
All meats are cured and sealed so they’re shelf-stable and don’t require refrigeration during transit. All you need do is slice open each package and enjoy with a glass of wine. For smaller appetites, the Carnivore Club also offers a monthly snack box subscription as well as a wooden crate with even more delicious meats.
Lawn care and landscaping are two of the most expensive hobbies or tasks on the planet. With the amount of time, money, and sweat equity that you put in you can spend thousands of dollars on lawn care, landscaping, and gardening. Luckily, the crew at GetSunday.com have put together monthly subscription boxes to get your lawn from dim and thin to full and beautiful.
There are a bunch of different lawn plans, there are tons of products to choose from, and completing each box will be well worth the time and effort. Whether you are an experienced lawn care guy or someone that is just starting out and couldn’t be more lost, there is a package for you. You won’t want to wait til the weekend to dive in, you’ll want to get get out there and start landscaping the second you get your box.
This three-month subscription delivers the 7-12-year-old girl on your gift list a box filled with self-esteem-building goodies and uplifting surprises. Each box includes five to six items that are on-trend, useful, and fun. Most importantly they are curated around inspiring and empowering girls to become and appreciate their very best selves. Items range from fun school supplies, jewelry, and accessories, to hair and nail art.
In fact, even the box itself carries a motivational message, with the themes of the gifts changing from month to month.
Filled with the most required essentials for the savvy gentleman, the Gentleman’s Box monthly subscription box delivers men’s fashion and lifestyle accessories. Experience the latest style trends with items ranging from ties and pocket squares to socks and watches. Each box is centered around a unique theme honoring a notable gentleman and always boasts a value exceeding $100.
Every box contains four to six items, along with a booklet that details the style inspirations of the featured products. Plus every member of this club gets a free annual subscription to GQ Magazine.
Flowers in a gift box seem so romantic and this subscription box delivers a new arrangement each and every month, fresh from sustainable farms and delivered to your doorstep within days of being cut. Chock full of 25-30 gorgeous stems from orchids to tulips to mini calla lilies and more, each enchanting Original BloomsyBox is enough for a couple of long-lasting bouquets to enhance every day.
For the rose lover on your gift list, consider the Martha Stewart Roses BloomsyBox filled with world-class roses from Fair-Trade farms located just south of Quito, Ecuador. While either of these makes great gifts for women, don’t forget, men love flowers too and this might delight one of the guys on your Christmas list as well.
If you’re a tea lover or someone on your gift list is, the Vahdam Loose Leaf Tea Subscription Box is an ideal treat that delivers five new loose leaf teas each and every month. Cited last year on Oprah’s Favorites list, Vahdam teas are known for exceptional flavor and the highest quality. The tea leaves are vacuum sealed and packed within 24 to 72 hours of harvesting to give you exceptional aroma, quality, and taste plus they come with the assurance of truly ethical, fair trade prices paid to farmers. Each month’s box contains 35+ servings so you’ll get more than one steamy cup per day and anxiously await the next month’s selections.
Did you know that besides tasting delicious, tea is good for your health? This blog post from Penn Medicine breaks down the goodness by different varieties.
There’s not much argument about the need for kids to learn coding to prepare for the future. The Bitsbox teaches real coding with crazy fun projects that come in the mail every month. Each level introduces a new computer science concept. Kids build their own apps on the Bitsbox website. They may start by coding from examples, but before long they progress quickly to inventing their own apps. With tons of kid-friendly themes, this is one time you won’t mind their screen time.
Did you know that coding also has all kinds of real-life applications, which is why you’ll want your kids to learn this new digital literacy?
For the barbecue connoisseur, the BBQ Box is a delightful monthly box with delicious snacks, rubs, sauces and wood chips to fire up the grill and create delicious and inventive meal ideas. Each box contains one sauce or marinade, one rub or spice mix, one yummy barbecue flavored snack, one sample package of premium wood chips or planks, and one custom recipe to show what can happen when you experiment with this box of BBQ goodies.
If you’ve been struggling with finding the perfect kid gifts this year, the STEM Discovery Box is an awesome subscription service that lets kids learn and have fun. Each monthly gift box contains STEM projects for kids aged 7 to teens. They’re handpicked by experts to engage budding scientists and engineers with more complex projects and experiments based on principles of physics, chemistry, and engineering.
Some projects contain instructional booklets and may require an adult. An affordable gift for your special kid, this is a really cool investment in their future. Stem Discovery Boxes contain three different projects each month to keep your kids engaged in learning at home.
If you’re looking to give your kiddo a love of reading, learning, and travel, the Little Passports monthly subscription box is an absolutely ideal way to stoke their interest and curiosity about the world as a whole, especially when most travel is on hold. In their first box, they’ll receive a signature blue suitcase, their very own passport, and a wall-sized world map, plus an exclusive collectible Country Coin and coin board, three animal squishes, a curated book, and a welcome letter from pen pals Sam and Sofia.
Every month after, they’ll receive a curated book that relates to each country selected and other goodies to keep their imaginations on fire and anxious to learn more. They’ll discover exciting countries and cultures through hands-on projects and activities. Designed by educators, designers, and award-winning writers, this is one of the best subscription boxes to gift to children ages 6-10.
Are you looking for the perfect subscription box to spark someone’s creativity? Whether they’re a dabbling artist or someone who is truly pursuing new passions, this monthly gift box contains a selection of top-quality art products that are curated by real artists. Each box contains four to five full-size premium art products, limited-edition tools, and art supplies. Designed to explore a variety of mediums, these boxes will also supply the instructions to help your budding artist experiment with new ideas and techniques.
A longtime favorite of Korean beauty aficionados, face masks are a key part of the ten-step regimen millions of women (and some men too) swear by. The SEVEN LUX monthly gift box features a changing selection of seven carefully curated sheet masks. These results-driven sheet masks might include options like hydrogels and multi-step masks, all of which contain high-quality ingredients.
If you’re a ginger, or you know someone who is, you know that redheads have special needs when it comes to skincare and hair care. This monthly subscription box is filled with beauty products specifically for redheads, from eyeshadows and makeup that are perfect for fair skin to sunblock, moisturizers, face masks, and more.
Each box has between six and ten products that redheads are going to love, and there are always some full-size gifts in the mix. With more than $85 in value, this monthly gift box is a great deal for folks who are lucky enough to be redheads.
If you’re sick of being stuck at home, you can learn to keep your mind busy by learning new and creative skills with the Adults & Crafts monthly subscription box. Each kit comes with everything you need to finish a fun craft project and many come with a tool you can use forever. You’ll get the correct amount of materials to help reduce any leftover waste. Plus the instructions are spot on so you’ll find that perhaps you’re a little more artistic than you gave yourself credit for.
Beauty, body care, and skincare are all required unique products if you’re a woman of color. Whether you’re shopping for yourself or someone you love, this monthly subscription box from COCOTIQUE nails it with products that are formulated for those special needs. With five to eight full and travel-size products each month, women can explore the best ways to care for themselves from head to toe. From lipstick and makeup to masks, shampoos, conditioners, and more, every monthly gift box will be a blast to explore and experiment with.
Often, men who have beards have a bit of a love affair with their facial fur. If you’re shopping for the perfect gift for a guy like that, the DAYSPA Body Basic Beard grooming monthly gift box will keep his manly beard looking clean, shiny, and incredibly soft. Each monthly gift box will help you to eliminate beard itch, improve hair damage and restore your whiskers to their former luster. Each month you’ll receive beard shampoo, beard oil, beard balm, and natural deodorant, so your beard will look great and your pits will smell simply heavenly.
The Tea Runners subscription box features a carefully curated selection of teas from around the world. Each month you’ll have a chance to explore teas you’d never find in a grocery store, and they’re the highest quality meaning exceptional flavor and aroma. In every box, you’ll receive all tea types including pure teas, blended teas, flavored teas, and herbal teas – enough in total to make up to 50 cups of this healthy and warming elixir.
With exclusive access to unknown tea gardens and blenders, each box of loose leaf teas will let you taste the world in a cup. If you’d prefer to explore only herbal teas, they have a gift box for that, as well as subscription boxes specifically with black tea and pure tea as well. They all come with tasting notes and steeping instructions to maximize your enjoyment.
Subscription boxes are an easy way to ensure they’re always stocked up on their favorite things throughout the year.
If your soul could use some regular soothing, the Chakra Box monthly subscription box is filled with all the kinds of things to put you in a more meditative space. Each box includes organic aromatherapy, crystals, gemstone jewelry, organic herbal teas, and other spiritual tools that will help you cope with the day’s stresses.
Each month you’ll get 9-12 vegan and cruelty-free items to enhance your focus and improve your well-being. With a value of $80-125 each month, the subscription price is a terrific deal for an ongoing dose of peace and happiness.
Everyone loves jerky. Whether you’re a beef-eating machine looking for a snack, a kid on a long car trip, or a gym rat looking to protein-up, jerky is a great option. And, believe it or not, there are a few different curated boxes of craft jerky from People’s Choice that will satisfy their need for meat.
They’ve got an all spicy jerky option, a simple and savory option, a sweet tooth option, and a health nut option (which is keto-friendly). Inside each box, you’ll find six hand-picked jerky options from People’s Choice (my personal favorite was the chili habanero bag!).
When sh*t hits the fan you need some serious survival gear, and this monthly gift box delivers the real deal stuff you’re going to need in that situation. A new cache of gear arrives each month so it’s a great way to build a functional bug-out bag for the next severe storm, forest fire, or zombie apocalypse. From LifeStraws and Leatherman tools to mini-hatchets, knives, and paracord, this monthly subscription could be a lifesaver when bad stuff happens.
Each month you’ll get three to six items with up to three of them being high-value items such as camping equipment, hiking essentials, bushcraft, EDC gear, and more, along with a mission card that will explain how to use the contents in an effective manner.
Finally, a subscription box for fitness fanatics that delivers the kinds of products they’ll actually use and love. The Gainz Box is a monthly service with deliveries of supplements, edibles, and workouts as well as outdoor gear. Consumables include things like protein bands, meal replacement bars, energy bars, workout supplements, vitamins, nutritional items, protein enhanced products, and healthy snacks. Workout gear consists of items like gloves, tape, resistance bands, massage tools, EDC items, and more.
Great as a Christmas, birthday, or anniversary gift, the arrival of each monthly box will be met with much anticipation. Available in both men’s and female boxes.
GQ or Gentlemen’s Quarterly is one of the most popular men’s fashion magazines in the world. The GQ brand is one that many actors, musicians, and authors love to associate themselves with. From selecting a “Man of the Year” winner every year to hosting fashion shows globally, the brand has a lot of street cred. Getting a GQ box every month is a gift that any guy would be happy to accept.
For what you get, the GQ box is really something special. For just a flat fee per month, the GQ box will come complete with socks, underwear, colognes, books, watches, hats, and self-care products that will most definitely improve your life. Each box is valued at over $200, and for a fraction of that cost, you can take home the contents of each box.
From whiskey to rum to scotch and gin, there isn’t a spirit that Flaviar can’t handle. With so many brands and flavors available you won’t ever get bored with your Flaviar box. If you have a true liquor guru on your gift list then why not give them the gift that keeps on giving? Figuratively and literally, this subscription box will arrive every month with a new taste from a different corner of the world.
There are so many ways to customize and dial in the contents of each subscription box. There are also monthly and yearly options so there should be a box for every kind of budget. The great thing about the Flaviar box is that if there is something that he doesn’t really like to drink, it can be excluded and if there is a beverage that he is really into, it can be added.
For coffee lovers, there is a great subscription box that will meet all your caffeinated or decaffeinated needs either weekly, biweekly or monthly. Just answer a couple of short questions about your preference when it comes to your cup o’ joe and you will have specific bean boxes built for you. The customization is really cool and you will experience different coffees to expand your pallet.
With preference options like whole bean or freshly ground you can really dial in the specificities of your subscription. Based on flavor profiles and strength of coffee you can really curate your own box. The subscriptions are also budget-friendly, with subscriptions starting at around $24. You are going to love giving this subscription as a gift or forget the gift and hog it all for yourself.
Grilling is one of the most popular outdoor activities during the Spring and Summer months and any real grill master knows it takes the right tools to get the job done. From rubs and sauces to grilling accessories and recipes Grill Masters Club is a great gift idea for any guy or girl that LOVES to grill. This monthly subscription box will turn the heat up on your backyard BBQs.
There are so many products available from Grill Masters Club that your grill game is going to expand exponentially. Sauces with hundreds of different spice levels and flavor profiles are available. There are dry rubs for low and slow cooking and marinades that will add another dimension of taste to your average BBQ. Prepay between 3 and 12 months in advance and save some serious coin either as a gift or for your own grilling needs.
There is so much that TheNomadik.com has to offer in the way of outdoor gear. The box will come to you each and every month with new adventure suggestions and the gear you need to get the job done. There are boxes based on the kind of lifestyle you pursue and boxes curated by the folks at TheNomadik.com to get you out of the house and experience new adventures.
The boxes you receive will contain items that are far more expensive than the monthly fee. What guys like most about this brand are that each month can be a surprise or can be specifically ordered to cater to a hiking trip, backpacking trip, or hunting trip. All you have to do is pick a box or answer some questions and patiently wait for your surprise each month.
One of the most requested items for birthdays, holidays, or gift-giving events is socks. Most of the world wears socks so it makes perfect sense to have a great monthly subscription that delivers colorful, fun socks every single month. You can customize the subscription-based on needs and wants and as far as budgeting goes, it is one of the most budget-friendly subscription boxes in the world. From dress socks to athletic socks. From ankle socks to socks that go up to the knee, there is something for everyone in this amazing subscription.
A monthly gift box is a perfect way to explore all kinds of unique interests. These are the best subscription boxes to gift that will delight and pamper your family, friends, kids, and even your pets!
