This has been a tremendously difficult year for families - with children locked indoors for long periods of time, and parents having to work from home at the same time as entertaining children and caring for elderly relatives.

It’s not been the time for making merry and enjoying each other’s company in a stress-free manner. So Christmas rolling around is the perfect opportunity to share some love, and to sit back and relax with the ones you love. And with gift-giving a huge feature of the special day, this article is about what to put inside stockings for your loved ones this Yuletide.

Books

This time spent in lockdown has been one of reflection and the taking up of old hobbies. As publishing houses and bookshops have been able to attest, this has been a wonderful time for books, which have sky-rocketed in popularity as people have found the time to focus back on their reading and the authors they love.

As such, getting a great book - either fiction or non-fiction - for members of your family is a great way to keep them reading, learning, and loving the worlds contained within the covers of the world’s most famous novels.

Smart Watches

The smart watch may have raised eyebrows when it was first released a handful of years ago, but the innovation and development in this space ever since has been dramatic - and far-reaching.

Now, an Apple Watch will bring you all the latest messages and communications - from all your social media and email platforms - direct to your wrist. This, at the same time as working as a fitness tracker and a hundred other things, makes the smart watch a smart present this Christmas. Use this Apple Watch comparison site to determine which watch will be best-suited to your loved one’s needs.

Activewear

This has also been a year of new resolutions and habits - a year in which we’ve searched deep inside ourselves for a sense of wellbeing and fulfillment, after much of the world closed around us. Many of us found solace in sport and exercise, which is what makes activewear such a great present this Christmas.

Buying your loved one a great pair of running trainers, some perfect gym gear, or the weights and yoga apparatus to work out from home, is the perfect way to show you love them and care about their physical health and mental wellbeing.

A Trip

Finally, if you’re thinking about how to wow your entire family with a present this Christmas, you should look no further than the travel discounts and deals being offered for 2021.

With airlines feeling hopeful about the future, and vaccines on the way, this is the moment to invest in a trip that your whole family can take when the virus is truly winding down - helping your family enjoy the bliss of a vacation after so long stuck within the same four walls.

These four present ideas will help you gift your loved ones perfectly this Christmas season - giving you cause for merriment during the whole of the festive season.