We started using a wishlist for our family a few years ago. This online wishlist has made holiday shopping much easier for us. Before we had the wishlist we would spend weeks trying to figure out what people might like for holiday gifts. Sometimes two people would end up buying the gift. With the wishlist everyone in our family can add items they want throughout the year. They can do this whenever they see something they like. I really like the wishlist because it makes things easier for the people buying gifts. At the time it is still personal. People get gifts they really like. The people buying gifts can choose things that fit their budget. We tell our family members to add a mix of things they really need and fun things they want to the wishlist. My suggestion is to use a wishlist platform that lets you add links, from different stores. It should also let people mark gifts as purchased without everyone seeing. This way we can still have surprises. We can also avoid buying the gift twice. For our family using a wishlist is a simple thing we do every year. It saves us time. Reduces stress. It makes the holidays more fun for us.