<prompt> Human: How do you and your family handle gift giving? To your siblings and parents, to your spouse or partner, and to your kids?Context: Most people belong to a culture that involves some form of gift exchange at some point during the year. For many of us, the people for whom we feel an obligation to get gifts are our close family members. However, my siblings and I are all financially successful enough to buy ourselves and our children just about anything within reason that we want. Because of this, I find that gifts from my family tend to be expensive junk that I dont want or need and I think my family feels the same about my gifts.Im thinking of proposing an end to gift giving in my family but Im interested in other options since I know that gift givingreceiving is an important way of showingreceiving love for some people? My wife and I have already ended this, as our finances are 100 transparent to one another, so no purchase is ever a surprise.  <response>: My family has has had a tradition the last few years to focus on home-made gifts. They tend to be really fun and bring out everyones creativity. For ideas, heres a few of the past gifts. Canned goods, like soups, pasta sauce, and fruit Paintings and art only my sister has that talent Bottled infused alcohols. The Meyer lemon vodka my cousin made was a big hit for cosmos with the girls in my family. Wood bird houses and bat houses my dad I made some cool looking planters last year. A loaf of home-made bread. My uncle is a big hunter had has meat made into sausages that he gives away each year.Just a few ideas, but it keeps the pressure off spending money on junk. Does take a little more time, but I think its a fun tradition. 