What's the most thoughtful/inspired gift you've ever received for Xmas?

Ummmm, I'm not sure how wonderful it is but my bestest LOVES Betty Crocker Devils food cake mix. So for Xmas this year I've bought her a cake tin and all the ingredients needed to make it. We had a £10 limit and that's the most thoughtful thing I could come up with, within budget!

Not the most thoughtful thing overall, but a couple of years ago my dad (who never gets me anything for birthdays or Christmas usually) got me a little gift set with a GIANT mug and some fairtrade hot chocolate. I was in the middle of studying human rights stuff and had just helped put together a film festival featuring a documentary on the slave trade within the chocolate industry, so it meant huge amounts to met that he'd tried to keep that in mind for me.

We got engaged on Xmas day 2 years ago which was a pretty good gift, though it wasn't a surprise as I had already picked the ring!

My best friend for my birthday this year had two cakes made in the shape of my rats, they were an amazing thoughtful gift.

How could you cut those cakes and eat them?! Inspired indeed.

I had to make H cut them as I was convinced it would hurt the real rats in some voodoo doll type way ?

One of my friends always manages to put together the most thoughtful gifts.

As poor, lowly students we obviously never had any money and one year, on my birthday she came in with a big carrier bag full of all the little things I love. Canned Dr Pepper, Kinder Eggs etc. She was quite apologetic about it all, but I absolutely loved it.

It really took me by surprise as it was the first time, from anyone, that I had got a gift that really showed how much someone knew me. To this day I'm convinced that little goody bag was the perfect present.

Another year, she made a little box and covered the inside with photographs of scenes from our favourite comedy sitcom (Bottom, for anyone who may be wondering) and wrote hilarious quotes all over it, that we would effectively recite to one another on a day to day basis. Again, I loved it because it was a huge reflection of our friendship. I still have that box, as battered as it is.

The little things that cost nothing are always my favourite. Anything that shows how much someone actually knows me is a winner.

For my 21st birthday, my best friend gave me a frame full of pictures of me and my friends, annotated with cute little messages:

The most thoughtful present I ever got wasn't really given to me as such, I found it a bit weird actually....my mum knows a guy from the local radio station whose late dad was an artist. Mums friend has all his dads original and prints in his house, and it was discovered that one of his dads paintings was a scene of the area myself and OH live in down by the harbour. The friend gave mum a copy to give to us for free and mum put it away to get framed etc and to give us for xmas, unfortunately for mum she didn't expect that we would run into her friend one night and he would spill the beans, not realising that it was being kept a surprise. It is lovely and hangs on our living room wall. The weird bit was that she decided to give it to OH for his xmas that year, rather than to me. I don't know why.

One day when we leave this rented place we will always have a reminder of our first home together

We got a rescue greyhound (sponsored) as a wedding present