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Great Gifts Between $250 and $500, From Fancy Wagons to Budget Laptops

This list contains at least a few gift ideas that'll take your cooler-than-you loved one by surprise. These items start at $250, but they stop at your door this holiday season.
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Bianca Cheng Costanzo/Bloom Blanket
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Bloom Blanket | $250 The star-shaped protuberances of the Bloom Blanket are inspired by the paper art of origami. Its overlapping designs form pointy geometric prisms of soft wool and cashmere, and the blanket’s odd topography stays intact without any filling. It doesn’t fold easily, but that’s OK—it looks best spread out on the sofa.

Some people are just plain frustrating to shop for. Books and Blu-Rays bore them. They've already got two Kindles and a Blu-Ray jukebox, anyway. If a cool toy came out this year, they probably bought one and got bored of it before you even heard about it. And their taste in artwork and furniture is so eclectic, you wouldn't know where to begin looking for something they could put in their home.

There's one in every family (chances are, it's you). Fear not, because this list of gifts contains at least a few things that'll take your uber-cool loved one by surprise. These items start at $250, but they stop at your door this holiday season.