I like having gifts to open! I expect my kids to devote a little time and effort in what gift I would like. They know I like something as simple as a pretty sea shell found on the beach when on vacation or old buttons from a vintage shirt found at a thrift shop. I can buy the bigger items for myself. I love to hear, Mom I saw this and thought of you. Every year since birth I have given each child a leather bound book of one classic fiction. They are continuing the tradition with the grands adding the newer classics like Harry Potter. The Christmas present book is to be read or read to before the next Christmas. My two kids have each read over 30 classic fictions each and still going strong and that is a great gift to me.