The lazy part of my (quite a large part..) just gets a bottle of wine for some distant cousin every year. Without getting into the whys and wherefores of present buying has anyone got any good ideas for someone I don’t really know for about a tenner rather than a bottle of plonk again?!

Chocolate:

[ethical suggestion]
Or send them a charity Xmas card with a ‘standard’ blurb in the bottom saying you’re not doing presents this year, but donating 50% of what you may have spent to charity
[/ethical suggestion]

[unethical suggestion]
either do it for real or dont (will they know the difference)
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EDIT: just realised my suggestion does kind of assume the gift giving is by post

LSD

All the people we know and customers who are nice are getting tins of biscuits,everyone likes biscuits, theyre chepish, asnd you get a tin to store bits in or to recycle, and you dont get a hangover.

and i hate wine.

Gin. Tesco’s cheapest.

This is why I don’t do Christmas, because of this obligation to buy presents for people you hardly know and frankly don’t give a stuff about. However, acknowledging that lots of people are in that situation, may I suggest one of those sponsor a dog/donkey/duck/child things. Your obligation is fulfilled, their expectation is met and, somewhere, a donkey gets a pat on the head. Everyone’s a winner!

Nice socks, maybe merino ones. Nothing festive and silly, just good quality socks.

Yunki, can I be on your Xmas list 🙂

Two bottles of wine?

What about the obligation to buy for in-laws you pathologically hate for fear of upsetting your brother?

a case of wine?