The wife handles that thank God. If it were me, they would get cash. However, I do buy the stuff for the kids. I really take my time and pick out educational gifts for the young ones. The hit one last year was the venus fly trap plant for the grandson. They grew and watched them all year but they recently died because he started giving them tap water as opposed to distilled is what we figured. The grandson is getting a Rasberry PI kit with LED board, box of simple Lego's (build case), some cell phone screens, and some other goodies to spend hours with grandpa making cool stuff.