It’s that special time of year again when your classmates disappear completely under layers of coats and the first wave of finals-related breakdowns begin. With the onset of winter comes the ritual of holiday gift buying, an obligation which often gets pushed back to the last minute with everything else happening this season. Instead of the warm glow of giving, people too often end up feeling the cold panic of realizing that they need to find a gift within the next 24 hours, or risk being labeled a bad friend for the rest of the year. With that in mind, here’s a list of gift ideas for just about everyone that can be carried out in the space of an afternoon.

When buying gifts for your foodie friend, ‘tis the season to embrace capitalism and pay someone to do the work for you. Subscription boxes that deliver a variety of foods to your friend’s house on a monthly basis are the perfect way to show your friend you care about them. The best part about this gift (for you) is that you can make it happen in a matter of minutes from the comfort of your own home. In keeping with the spirit of giving, Love With Food will donate a meal to a hungry child for every snack box your friend receives, making you a good person twice over. Other great options include Graze, which provides small, hand-picked boxes of snacks, Treatsie, for your friend with a sweet-tooth, and Skoshbox which delivers Japanese snacks for those who want to feel cultured. Give your friend the gift of snacks and remind them on a monthly basis what a good friend you are.

DIY gifts are perfect for friends and family alike, especially ones who don’t judge your level of crafting skills. Luckily, there are great DIY holiday gift options that don’t require you to make a single trip to the art supplies store. One that’s especially simple and budget friendly is a recipe in a jar. To create this gift, pick out a recipe for a baked good, layer the dry ingredients in a jar (Ideally a mason jar, but a cleaned-out salsa or jelly jar will work too if you remove the label), print out the rest of the instructions for the recipe and attach them to the jar, throw on a ribbon if you’re feeling fancy, make sure the lids on tight, and present it to the lucky recipient. If you can find a recipe the uses ingredients already in your house and locate an acceptable jar, then this gift can cost you absolutely nothing.

If you feeling slightly more creative, or you fear you won’t be able to accommodate all of your friends’ dietary restrictions, then another easy idea that can be completed within a few hours is a personalized mug. You can find more detailed instructions here, but the basic idea is that you take a normal, ceramic mug and draw a design on it with a Sharpie. If you are confident in your art skills, feel free to get elaborate, but otherwise consider sticking to your gift receiver’s name or initial. Then, after the Sharpie ink is completely dry, bake it in the oven at 350 for a half hour to set the design. That’s pretty much all you have to do for this gift, but if you want to go the extra mile, you could put a handful of a seasonally-appropriate treat, like candy canes or gelt, inside the mug.

If your friend’s Snapchat story consists mostly of their dog, or they start every story with, “My dog did the cutest thing yesterday…”, then consider signing them up for BarkBox. It’s a subscription box service that delivers dog snacks and toys on a monthly basis. However, if your friend is more of a cat person, you don’t have to deny them the opportunity to give their pet even more attention. Meowbox is a cat subscription box that provides treats and cat-appropriate toys. Signing your friend or family member up for either of these boxes is easy and will almost guarantee you’ll be asked to look at even more pictures of their pet.
If you’re buying gifts for a young child this year and you’re not sure what’s “hip with the kids these days”, consider paying for them to “adopt” an animal from the Lincoln Park Zoo. This gift is adorable, educational, and charitable, as your donation goes towards providing care, diets, checkups and more for the animals. The adopter gets an animal plush, a personalized certificate, an animal fact sheet, and a picture of their animal. For animal-lovers who might have outgrown stuffed toy, there are cheaper adoption options that don’t include the plush and are entirely digital.

Hopefully, there’s something on this list for almost everyone you have to buy a gift for, and you’ll be able to pull off the illusion of being an organized and caring person for one more year. Remember, it’s the amount of thought you appear to have put into a gift that counts, and any gift is better than nothing. Otherwise, good luck trying to convince your friend that the really cool gift you got them got “lost in the mail”.