To begin, this is not a wish list you want Santa, or the omnipotent Cosmonautilus to bring YOU, this post is about what you are getting YOUR loved ones.
So, If you do celebrate the holidays, what will you be getting your siblings, aprents, friends, significant others, children, minions, etc.?
I'll start!
Freinds: Lego, action figures, alcohol
Mom: Something pretty, like a dish, a flower, a vase. Something she can use.
Younegr brother: Alcohol and an Axe. Long story, but looks cool
Older brother: 4 x half pound Reese's Penut Butter Cups (http://i.imgur.com/VieG5.jpg) and a poster for his wall
Dad: A nice bottle of rum
This forum: A virtual hug from a Kirby knock off <( ' v ' ) > (> ' v ' <)
I'll be going through friends' Amazon wishlists and ordering stuff off those. If friends still lack such lists, I'll probably go with giftcards. I am terrible at buying things for other people, even ones I know well.
Making sets of building blocks for my nieces. Might create some cooking mixes for friends. Family more or less called a gift truce (I like this phrase, Craig) this year since most of us have to travel to get together and all of the attenetion will be on my nieces anyway.
I am buying for five people - my boyfriend, my mother, my father, my younger brother, and my grandfather - and two animals (purely because it amuses me to see a dog and a rabbit open gifts). My grandad is getting lottery tickets because that's what he wants, and I have absolutely no idea about anyone else.
Crocheted things and handmade resin/polymer clay jewellery will likely feature though.
I tend to throw gifts or themed gift collections at people I like throughout the year- usually because I just had a really cool idea for something they might enjoy/I thought of them in a positive way (hey, there has to be at least one upside for putting up with me!). So I don't get them something for Christmas, because surprise gifts are more fun. And almost none of them live in the same country as me.
Plus I don't really enjoy Christmas very much (unless it is A Muppet Family Christmas, that is). I'd probably ignore it, if I could.
So the only people getting presents from me are my parents- who both happen to be history nerds, gamers and geeks. Which people always think is really cool but, bizarrely, makes them really hard to shop for, because they always already have everything, Or, quite often, the better version/edition of a product. Buying an RPG for either of them is pretty much impossible, and between us we have long since broken the 1000+ board/card games threshold, so any new game accepted into the fold has to live up to some pretty high standards.
Anyway, my dad usually gets Graphic Novels, because he likes them, but can never justify the space they take up (if they are a gift from me, it's not his fault that they don't fit on the shelf anymore, you see). Or alternatively, computer games, because he will play them for hours, but he really has no clue about new releases.
And my mum usually gets something quite odd, like that one time bought her a big plush wombat and sewed a superhero costume for it- because that's how she rolls.