We use lists in our family. It really helps with the gift giving and avoiding duplicates. Things on my lists are always washable school glue, frixon pens, best press, money for my fabric kitty so I can buy fabric when I see something I like, gift cards to fabric shop. When we give money we often give it in unusual forms such as 25 gold dollar coins or recently we gave one of our kids birthday money in $2 bills. My daughter gave me money wrapped in a fat quarter of fabric I can use. We don't expect to get everything on our lists but that's the fun of it.