You've bought enough dreidel-print socks. Here's what actually gets used year after year — including gifts you can trace back to the person who made them.
The gifts that last past January are almost always the ones tied to a ritual someone already does every week or every year — the Friday-night candle lighting, the Havdalah closing out Shabbat, the menorah that comes out of storage every Hanukkah. Gift into an existing habit rather than starting a new one, and you're nearly guaranteed a gift that actually gets used.
See our Hanukkah gifts for kids guide for the history behind nightly gift-giving if you're buying for a whole family.
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