Support Awesome Small Aussie Businesses

You need a gift.
You’ve left it late.
Everything online looks beige, polite, and like it was written by someone who’s never sworn in their life.

Fuck that shit!

This, my friend, is where shopping small comes in and kicks the big guys right in the blandness.

Big Brands Play It Safe. Small Brands Don't.

Big businesses have meetings about meetings.
Small businesses have ideas, opinions, and zero time for corporate waffle.

Small Aussie brands can:

• Say what everyone’s actually thinking

• Make stuff that’s funny, bold, and a little bit unhinged

• Take risks without a legal team crying in the corner

Your Money Stays in Australia (Instead of Disappearing Into the Void)

When you shop small, your money doesn’t vanish into a faceless global machine.

It goes to:

• Real people

• Local designers

• Aussie printers, makers, packers, and post office legends

It helps us little guys pay rent, buy food and occasionally treat ourselves to fancy beer!

Small Brands Create Awesome Gifts

You know that feeling when you give someone a gift and they say,
“Holy shit, this is PERFECT.”

That doesn’t happen with generic candles.

It happens when you buy something that feels:

• Personal

• Specific

• Slightly inappropriate in the best way

Kitchen Language doesn’t make gifts for “people”. 

We make gifts for that person...

The pisshead mate, the BBQ king, the mum who swears more than her kids, the coworker who deserves a passive-aggressive tea towel.

Same goes for other cheeky Aussie brands doing things their own way, like Lawz Drawz, illustrating all the coolest places in Melbourne, selling puzzles, magnets, stickers and her famous, 'Get on the Beers' Calendar  (who also designed our tea towels and font 10 years ago!)  Bogan Bingo, who turned Aussie stereotypes into a national sport and somehow made Community events and Christmas lunches even louder, Jubly-Umph (fucking hard to say, but fucking rad to buy!), who sell sweary socks, pins and earrings and our favourite, Inappropriate Gift Co, who started around the same time as us, was founded by a fellow kickarse Aussie chick, who stocks our sweary favourites, who smashed it on the original Shark Tank and have the ultimate Online store for sweary, inappropriate gifts!

Kitchen Language Actually Gives a Shit

When you buy from Kitchen Language:

• I actually pack your order

• I notice your name and write you a little note

• I celebrate each order with an excited bum wiggle (and often a beer, in a Classy Cunt stubby holder of course!)

Mistakes get fixed faster. Small businesses live and die by our reputation, so we try harder. Every time.

Shopping Small Keeps Australia Interesting

If we all just bought from the same three mega brands, everything would look the same, sound the same, and feel boring as fuck.

Small businesses are where:

• Weird ideas survive

• Niche humour thrives

• Aussie culture stays loud, rude, and unapologetic

Without them, we’d lose the brands that actually reflect how Australians talk, laugh, and take the piss.

So Yeah, Shopping Small Is Better

Not because it’s trendy.
Not because it’s a guilt trip.
But because it’s more fun.

You get better gifts.
You support real people.
You keep Aussie humour alive and kicking.

And if that gift also tells someone they’re a sick cunt while holding a beer? Even better.

👉 Support small. Support local. Support brands with a backbone.
👉 Your gifts will be funnier, your conscience lighter, and your mates way more impressed.

Cheers to that 🍻

Let us know your fave thing about shopping small and your fave Aussie small businesses.