I've been participating in Reddit's Secret Santa for several years now and I've made it a tradition to make my recipients a box. Sometimes they have a specific application, others it's just a box. One thing is always for sure, I will be late, and I will ship one day past the deadline.

In this case I had an offcut of CVG fir that I've wanted to use for boxes for a while now, so I used that and some curly maple to get some good contrast between the panels and the sides.