I am buying my grands an Advent calendar from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and my animal-loving friend in the UK a "symbolic adoption" of an animal from the World Wildlife Fund. I haven't decided which one I'll give her this year. I donate at a level that means they will send her a stuffed toy of the animal which I tell her to keep, give to a child, or donate to a hospital, shelter, or whatever. So far I think she has kept the ones I have sent, though goodness knows where she finds room for them!