One more thing I can add to the "list of gifts that would please me":

Something handmade.

For some reason, people who do craft or art don't often get handmade gifts (at least, in my experience). I don't know if it's a "judgement" thing (as in, "her work is so much better than what I do, nothing I make would be good enough") or a "if she wanted it, she'd make it for herself" sort of thing, or something like that.

But really - who better to appreciate the work of someone's hands than someone who does that very work, themselves?

But again: not the Madison Avenue model of a "happy Christmas." (I will say - quite a few years ago - the church my family belonged to did that "$100 Christmas" thing, where the goal was to, AS A FAMILY, spend no more than $100 on Christmas - that included tree and Christmas dinner and gifts, all that. The idea was, first, to take the money you would have spent and give it to charity. The other idea was to get away from materialism for a year. So everyone plotted and planned and tried to figure out what kind of gifts they could make - or give gifts of time (I think my brother made "coupons" good for one car-washing for my dad). It was one of the more memorable Christmases, and I mean that in the best possible way.)

Maybe I'm unrealistic or a romantic or something but my mental picture of "an ideal Christmas," gift-wise, involves snow and being closed up in a snug house, and gifts including things like handknitted scarves and hats and handcrafted picture frames and wooden toys for the little ones and maybe things people have baked for each other and maybe poems or stories that someone wrote especially for someone else to read...That's what really would make me happy.

So, you can put that in your pipes, luxury-car-purveyors, and smoke it.