Gifts For Freelancers: Top 21

Are you looking for some gifts for freelancers? This blog post shares 9 creative and useful ideas. Please note affiliate links are used in the post and so I will receive a small commission fee, at no extra cost to your purchase, if you choose to use any of the links. This will help me with the running of this blog 🙂

1. Ergonomic Mouse

The mouse pad that comes with laptops are typically not ergonomically designed. So having a separate remote mouse that is ergonomic is designed to help muscles is perfect for long term use.

2. Gifts For Freelancers: Notebook

Having a physical notebook to write in can be a nice gift for a freelancer who often works from their laptop. Why not look at some notebooks with unique designs? This can serve as a source of inspiration for creatives especially. Colourshot have a range of African designed notebooks and with my affiliate code REMIREPORTS10 you can get 10% off sitewide. You can choose a variety of different notebook designs to add to the visual decoration of your home office.

3. Mouse Mat

Why not search for a quirky mouse mat that relates to the type of freelancer you are gifting? That way, whenever they are working they will always be looking at this creatively crafted gift.

4. Gifts For Freelancers: Ergonomic Chair

It’s not uncommon for freelancers to work from home and so working comfortably is important in order to maintain posture and prevent any muscle damage. Ergonomic chairs are specifically designed to support back muscles and are a necessary tool for anyone working from home. There’s a range of different designs you can get, that is breathable in the back and more.

I love my ergonomic chair!

5. Course

Courses are valuable ways for freelancers to develop their business. My Beginner Freelancer E-course is made for freelancers at the start of their journey or those strongly considering taking that leap. I also offer a 1 2 1 strategy call for freelancers.

6. Gifts For Freelancers: Art

Gifting a freelancer with art that connects to them specifically can be an extra special gift. A visual representation of a creative freelancer’s interest can help provide them with inspiration throughout their working hours.

7. Houseplant

Plants can really be like a personal project to their owners. It offers something for them to foster their creativity to and care for. My favourite plant shop is based in South East London and is called, Garden Of Eden. However, if you can’t gain access to this, home shops like Ikea, Home sense etc, may have some good offers too.

8. Creative Cups

Quirky cups are cool and may actually be something that I may get into collecting! I got the cup in this image from Matalan, but if you do a classic google search for ‘quirky mugs’, or something along those lines, you should be able to come across a wider range that suits the specific freelancer you are gifting.

9. Gifts For Freelancers: Personalised T-Shirt

There are a variety of t-shirts that relate to being a freelancer or self-employed. Etsy and Redbubble are great websites to search for this! It can be a motivating slogan to freelancers when they wear it- almost like their own personal uniform!

10. Light Therapy Alarm Clock

Different colour lights can help set the mood of a scene. I have found this light therapy alarm clock incredibly useful, especially in the cold season to help lift my mood and bring more brightness to my room.

11. Bamboo Blue Light Glasses

Many freelancers working from home spend a lot of time on their laptop. Blue glasses help limit the amount of blue light that freelancers consume, which can be damaging over a longer period of time.

These bamboo blue light glasses add a bit of personality and creative flair to their practicality.

12. This Year Will Be Different Book

This book was gifted to me at the early stages of my freelancing career and it contained some really helpful tips that helped me as a freelancer.

It’s a compilation of interviews with freelancers in different fields who share their journey and tips they have for freelancers coming up.

13. Fitbit

We all know that sitting at home all day isn’t healthy, so gifting a freelancer with a Fitbit can be gentle encouragement for them to do some more exercise.

This wristband tracks your exercise, sleep, and other activities. It also syncs with smartphones and computers to give you a detailed report on habits and how you can improve on them! Pretty neat, ay?

14. Creative Tissue Box Gifts For Freelancers

Everyday items, like tissue boxes, can be made more fun by having a creative element.

This camera designed tissue box is a super cool example of this!

15. Noise Cancelling Headphones

A good pair of headphones, preferably noise-cancelling ones, is likely to be greatly appreciated by any frequent laptop user.

When working remotely, there can sometimes be distractions that come up unexpectedly. So having headphones that drowned out background noise can help freelancers better get into the working zone.

Beats headphones are well renowned for their sound quality, and this spec, in particular, is wireless too, making it more practical and comfortable to wear.

16. Cup Warmer

As freelancers, we can sometimes make a cup of tea, get right into the working zone, and then forget about the tea we have made.

But this cup warmer helps prevent your tea from getting cold quickly. It is USB powered, so just be careful to keep it somewhere safe that won’t spill!

17. Creative Cushions Gifts For Freelancers

As well as the practicality of working from home, there’s also the element of making it look more aesthetic.

Getting some statement pillows that add a bit of personality to a freelancer’s home, like this one, can be a nice uplifting gift.

18. Warm Socks Gifts For Freelancers

I was recently gifted a pair of amazingly warm socks by the freelancing platform, Underpinned and boy, do I love them!

They are honestly my favourite pair of socks as they are fitting, and have a cushioned inside around the sole and tip of my feet.

They really help in the winter especially, when you’re working from home and so are not wearing shoes.

Don’t underestimate what a simple pair of warm socks can do to uplift a freelancer’s mood. You heard it here first!

19. Cookies

Ally Pally’s kitchen offers a portion of 8 cookies that are delivered straight to your door!

They are affordable and so delicious! I bought some myself over lockdown and they melt so perfectly in your mouth when warmed up in the oven.

They’re a heartwarming gift for anyone working from home

You can order them here!

20. Cookbook

Working from home more means more opportunity to cook homemade food too!

Why not gift a freelancer with a cookbook that has both delicious and healthy recipes, like this Caribbean cookbook? It’s an opportunity to exercise creativity in something other than work (if they’re not a chef already).

21. Vouchers or Subscriptions

Vouchers that can be of specific use to the type of freelancer you are gifting is also worth considering.

For example, you could gift a freelance video editor with an Adobe subscription.

Or perhaps more generally, gifting any freelancer with an online network membership group could be very useful.

Freelancing means ever-expanding your network. So, you can never have too many connections!

I hope this blog post sharing gifts for freelancer gave you some ideas of how to gift creative freelancers!