Depends on the person.
This year I am getting someone shit they will totally hate and hopefully never need to use but they will never buy it them self and it could save their life. It is car related
I am getting my sister a household present that everyone will use a lot. She doesn’t even know a product that can do what this does exists. But they will use it about 20 hours a week as a family.
I live with my sisters oldest kid in a two bedroom apartment and I just moved in last month. He has lived here over a year and it has never been vacuumed. So our gift to each other is going halves on a vacuum.
The few other gifts I need to get are going to be fun things that people wouldn’t actually buy on their own.
My sister already got me my b-day/c-mas gifts. When I first moved up here I wasn’t able to bring a lot of stuff with me. And I had to pack in about 4 hours. I wasn’t able to bring my bed and I forgot my boxes with bathroom stuff.
After a week of me sleeping on the floor with no pillows and a tiny blanket she broke down and bought me a bed and all the needed accessories, bathroom supplies, a warm jacket, and shoes.
I am clearly a person that needs gifts to maintain a normal standard of living.