What to give them?

Last year I named an orphan baby vervet monkey, her mum, had been shot while the baby was climging onto her.

She is currently being got ready for a Foster mother monkey to take her on, but I get to follow her progress,and witness her being scooped up and loved as she gets taken into a troop.

I named her after my daughter.

kittylester

I like GB's ideas.

Yes, me too!
Looking at this from the other side.....theres nothing I need but I do like my garden so a pre-planted pot of spring bulbs would be delightful.

Magazine subscriptions?
But perhaps listen to what they're saying, (please don’t buy us anything)? Could it be that by buying something for them you are making them feel obliged to think of something to buy for you?
An agreement to NOT buy presents for each other does lessen the considerable pressure of Christmas.
(and in my case it would mean fewer bars of soap and pairs of slippers cluttering up my wardrobe until I can get to a charity shop.)

When I was a child many years ago, people were glad to receive anything as a gift, Christmas was such a special time and in our family the only time you really got presents except for your birthday
Now everybody has too much “stuff” and to have to wrack your brains to think what you can to get for your 12-year-old grandson who has everything I’d sooner give it to the Salvation Army
I will donate to the Salvation Army, but I will end up getting my grandson some sort of voucher 🤷‍♀️

Flowers , bottle of fizz or a plant for the garden, or your company, just as they have asked for.

I like GB's ideas.

Lottery cards?

Give them yourself because you are obviously worth knowing. I say this every birthday ( I like Christmas presents!) but my sister ignores me and it is very annoying.

These charity ideas instead sound a good idea.

I've bought my grandsons a cow, a cockeral, and my best one was a toilet.
All donated so that families can set themselves up with farming basics, and begin to earn their way out of poverty.
I used the send-a-cow foundation, but there are lots similar.

Individual donations to charities? Small bowls of spring bulbs to look forward to?