🎁 Emotional Stocking Stuffers

🧦 Small Comforts for a Large Year

You made it through 2025. That’s already a win.
But let’s take a moment to honor the unsung heroes — the little things that held us together when we were this close to unraveling like a discount sweater in a dryer on high.

Here’s a list of the absurd, the tiny, and the surprisingly steady joys that stocked our emotional stockings this year:

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👕 A Soft T-Shirt That Got It

You don’t need to explain your choices when you’re wearing a shirt that says “I TRIED.”
It’s not an apology. It’s a declaration.
Some days, trying is the most heroic thing you’ll do. And on others, it’s all you’ve got left in the tank between impulse snacks and awkward phone calls.

🛍️ Yes, it’s real. Yes, you can wear it.

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🧃 The Last Juice Box in the Fridge

Found it behind a bag of shredded cheese.
Drank it in one dramatic gulp.
Felt like a king.

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⏱️ A Two-Second Hug That Wasn’t Too Much

You didn’t flinch.
You didn’t freeze.
You didn’t say “thanks” like a weirdo when it ended.

Progress.

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🥄 A Spoon That’s Always Clean

The good one.
Not the weird long one that clangs.
The one you feel safe with for soup or sadness.

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🧻 A Spare Roll When You Needed It Most

Sometimes love shows up in the form of basic preparedness.
And the fact that it wasn’t single-ply? A gift.

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🔊 That One Sound That Calms You Down

Could be a podcast.
Could be a cat purring.
Could be your own voice whispering “you don’t have to be amazing, just awake.”

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📦 A Box of Weird Leftover Gifts

You don’t know who gave you that tiny flashlight.
Or why you’re saving the reindeer pen that lights up.
But you keep them anyway. Little proof that someone once thought of you.

🧍‍♂️ Somewhere, Butterwell sits among crinkled wrappers, expired peppermint bark, and a “World’s Okayest Human” mug — whispering to no one in particular: “Maybe this year wasn’t so bad.”

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🍞 Crumb of Meaning

The big stuff gets all the attention.
But it’s the small stuff that keeps you going.
Not everything you need has to come in a dramatic arc or a life lesson.
Sometimes all you need is a clean spoon, a soft shirt, and one dumb little win to keep you upright.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This moment of tiny, wearable validation was written with AI assistance but fully Butterwell-approved.
Any errors in judgment, tone, or snack prioritization are due to human oversight and peppermint fatigue.

🍽️ Serving Suggestion

Put on the shirt.
Eat the last candy.
Text someone you almost forgot.
You don’t have to fix your whole life this week —
just add one small thing that makes you feel slightly more okay.

If you don’t know by now that you should buy the t-shirt, I don’t know what to tell you.

Coming Soon!

The book you didn’t know you needed… because denial is one of your core coping skills.
The astute among you may notice the cover has slightly changed.