In general, I try that my ideas for gifts conform to the person who will receive them, after all, I like when I succeed and the gift is very well received. I do not like when I give a gift that is not relevant and ends at some corner without being used.
For this Christmas the gifts I have thought are not material objects, but they can work (I hope they work :)). To relatives who have watered in several countries, what is more usual is to keep us in contact and was preparing a congratulations with photos collected from old Christmas holidays where we were together in Venezuela. In the case of my brother, the only close one left in the country, I planned to buy ingredients to prepare dinner and share a good time. It is something simple, but cooking for a relative is something that among mine also tells as a gift.