As a singer I was always very busy at christmas with rehearsals and concerts etc, so my thing was I always bought 2 extra presents, in case I had forgotten someone or there was someone extra when family came. So I used to get a box of Anton Berg biscuits - I would call them posh jaffa cakes. Each one individually wrapped and you could get plums in maderia or oranges in cointreau etc and they would have marzipan and chocolate . These would be wrapped in christmas paper with a label put on but not signed. then I would get a book token. So win win. If I needed them at christmas time there they were at the ready. If I had been organized or lucky enough to not need them at all , brilliant. I used to invite a couple of friends to come over for an indulgent coffee in the middle of january. So we had lovely fresh coffee in china mugs, an indulgent anton berg, and we were allowed to have a great moan about anything that happened over christmas or people who had annoyed us etc. If the book token was not needed - I would keep it until about february in case there was a need and then what bliss. Any money of course was swallowed up in bills etc but you cant pay a bill with a book token and that gave me the great pleasure of being able to have a legitimate reason to spend ages choosing a book for myself. When things are fraught over the christmas time you can have a little cheering thought of these pleasures to come. Then as said before I always plant up 3 pots of hyacinths to start coming out mid January and they go on until february. They do not save you time but over the years I have been very happy when these presents have either been used or we have had fun on our january indulgent munch and moan! Just make sure that you get something that you really enjoy yourself!