The CityLab 2020 Gift Guide

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Having more stuff can’t really make up for this year’s hellishness. But some kinds of stuff can make it easier.

After nine months of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve emerged with a new perspective on the kinds of tools, toys, gadgets and gear that can improve Covid-era living. For both essential workers and the homebound masses they kept alive, 2020 has been a year of extraordinary stressors and unexpected sacrifices; we might now crave travel adventures and party dresses, but what we really want is to stay housed, healthy and sane while we wait our turn in line for a vaccine — the only gift this season that really matters. Here’s Bloomberg CityLab’s wish list of useful, indulgent, goofy or much-coveted quarantine accessories, for a range of budgets. (Plus some fun maps, because it wouldn’t be complete without it.)