These are gift ideas for the handy person. Someone that’s always fixing things up around the house. The gifts here are all about reducing frustration and allowing them to focus on doing what they like to do: fixing things.
It can be hard to know what a good gift looks like for these people. This list contains safe bets that are sure to be great gifts.
Around $30
This is an outlet that also has a built in USB A + USB C charger. No more plugging in power bricks to charge a phone or tablet. This also allows you to charge your devices while still using the normal power plugs for something else.
For someone with a small amount of electrical experience, this is an easy install, but comes with a big day-to-day quality of life improvement.
A camera at the end of a cord. You can see what the camera sees through an app on your phone. Traditionally endoscopes are expensive and industrial items. Something a professional plumber might have for example.
Now, they are affordable enough for anyone. A handy person would use this to see what is in the walls, look down pipes, look under cabinets. There are many, many situations where this tool is useful.
Around $50
A handy person has a lot of tools, but do they have good organization of those tools? A wall mount magnetic tool holder allows you to put all of your tools out of the way on the wall, but you can also see them all at the same time. It’s very easy to find what you’re looking for, use it, and then put it right back where it belongs.
Over $100
Too often, you find yourself going into the garage, getting the extension cord our, and then unraveling it. When you’re done, you have to spend time winding it back up and putting it away neatly. Or you don’t bother with it and it’s just a huge mess.
Nobody likes dealing with extension cords. The extension cord is just enabling you to do something else, so why spend so much time dealing with the cord.
This gift is a retractable extension cord that winds itself back up. When you need it, you just pull it out. When you’re done, you allow it to retract and it’s always cleaned up. This will save your handy person so much time and they will be more likely to do the things that they want to do because it’s easier to plug it in.
Drill + Impact Driver
DEWALT 20V MAX XR Brushless Impact Driver and Hammer Drill Combo Kit
Buy Now on Amazon - $250Any handy person uses a drill all the time. This is the best one and they can use it for years and years to come.
This kit includes a drill and an impact driver. An impact driver is a special type of drill that is really good at screwing things in. It’s a much better tool for that type of job and makes screwing in particularly large screws or lag bolts possible when it may not work with a normal drill.
DeWalt has a few different types of drills and drivers available and it can be confusing to understand which one to get. The 20V MAX XR Brushless version is the best one and really an industry standard. These drills will be tools that your handy person will love.
Gift Ideas For Mother's Day