If you’ve got a hard-to-shop-for person in your family, stop scrolling through box sets on Amazon. It’s time to cheat, using Vox‘s list of the ten greatest Georgetown-themed holiday gifts it’s ever seen.

And if you’re already eyeing Georgetown sweatshirts in the bookstore as a way around your father’s persnickety reading tastes, use our list to get creative. After all, what says “I love you” like a product that lets your parents advertise where you got in to school on their car, bookshelf or person?

10. Vineyard Vines’ Georgetown Bow Tie

The quintessential gift for the East Coast parent, a Georgetown bow tie from the University bookstore makes use of Vineyard Vines-wear and will remind your father of his favorite place to take you to eat on parents’ weekends, The Tombs, every time he wears this and is mercilessly mocked by his clients or golf buddies.

9. Jack the Bulldog Christmas Tree Ornament

Every year, one of your goody two-shoes, kindergarten-aged cousins makes Grandma a homemade Christmas ornament in crafts that melts her heart. Well, you’ll show them.

For $35, you’ll get her a blown glass ornament emblazoned with the grimacing image of Jack the Bulldog. Is that too scary for the Christmas tree? Yeah, well, so is that deformed macaroni likeness of your grandmother.

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