Gift Guide For The Post-Mo Hoes 🧑🏻🎄
For the PIMOs, ProgMos, Post-Mos, and just plain old hoes. (Did I get all of those acronyms right? 😅)
I used to write these types of gift guides for a company I worked with. I wrote blogs 3x a week for them and thoroughly enjoyed it, especially when the holiday shopping season rolled around. It was an excuse for me to window-shop every e-commerce site I loved and get inspiration for my own Christmas wishlist.
I was thinking last week about what gifts I’d both buy and recommend for those around me and couldn’t help but think of a realm I’ve explored and known well for years now — the Post-Mormon space. From my writing, you likely know by now that transitioning out of my religion was a lofty task for me, full of new experiences and unfamiliarity. In an Instagram caption I wrote a few months back, I romanticized this newfound value:
“It’s just coffee. It’s just new freckles on my shoulders. It’s just a new color in your wardrobe. It’s just a new favorite movie I’ve been waiting all my life for. It’s just a new career opportunity. It’s just a new tattoo. It’s just a new hobby.
Something I value most in the past five years. Trying new things. Expanding creativity. New ideas, maybe one original thought once in a while. A value, maybe once known, more evident than ever:
Novelty. 🌟”
The Post-Mormon space is full of novelty in new things, exploring things previously forbidden or outside of our comfort zonez, and bonding with others on these new things in our lives. So after this slightly long-winded love letter to my Post-Mo sister hoes, I’m sharing my list in the form of a gift guide:
Coffee & Tea:
I haven’t been huge on drip coffee at home until this year, but my boyfriend introduced me to this brown sugar Trader Joe’s non-dairy oat creamer and now I love it.
That said, I’m looking to reduce my caffeine intake, so I just ordered this Ryze mushroom coffee mix that I plan to mix with that same creamer. I tried this mix at a friends and really liked how it felt with my concentration, so I’m hopefully for more results.
Get yourself an electric mixer in a pretty color to mix it all in.
My favorite SLC places I’d get gift cards from are (in this order ;))
Bjorns Brew
Java Jo’s
Rawbean
Loki
Dutch Bros
I’m also obsessed with tea now. It’s part of my nightly routine. I love this kettle I got for my birthday.
I started using tinctures a few times a couple of years ago and didn’t feel any real effects until I tried this one from Earlybird. I still love it some mornings. I dissolve it under my tongue before coffee.
I’ve since upgraded for a stronger calming and focusing effect with their gummies. The watermelon flavor is by far my fav, but I also love the lemon. I typically buy them in a 3-pack to save $$$.
Drinking:
I’ve loved collecting glasswear and I think this is such a sweet gift for friends, especially those getting into their cocktail/mocktail game. I have some colorful glasses from Anthropologie a few years ago that I will forever love. I’d also recommend looking at your local thrift store, but if they don’t have what you’re looking for, I’m currently loving these wine glasses as well as these ones from Anthro.
When I first started practicing making cocktails I bought a cocktail-making set like this one and looked up all the Pinterest recipes I could find.
A few of my favorite cocktail recipes:
Blackberry Basil Moscow Mules (another rec would be to get someone copper mugs with this recipe ingredients)
Style:
Parade underwear were my first *real* underwear (iykyk) and I’m never going back. I get the Re:Play Briefs and they are comfy as hell.
A comfy bralette is a must obviously. I have small boobs so I wear these Free People crop tanks as bras every day.
I also recently bought this one and it’s my new fav.
This Halara mini skirt was my first and pretty much only. It’s insanely comfy.
This is my favorite red tank from Amazon (it’s giving sexy ho-ho-ho)
Spiritual:
Subtle plug for my Self Discovery Journal available on Amazon ;). It’s 52 prompts that I feel passionately help self-identity and growth, which is crucial in the deconstruction process.
I had my first tarot reading with Tori and would highly recommend her <3. My friend Tressa gifted me a reading with her and I have to say, getting it as a gift was even better.
After our session she recommended this Tarot deck and accompanying book and I’ve been using them every Sunday since.
Events:
Last but not least, there are still tickets to the Book of Mormon Musical in SLC available and this would make a great partner or bff date.
I also want to plug tickets or an invite to any Lost & Found Event. This community has been huge for me since leaving Mormonism and I’ve met so many golden people through it.
As always, message me with any’s Q’s or A’s. I love to chat.
xoxo,
maddie ♥️