One thing that helps me time wise during this time of the year is when someone else finds a really good gift for a person except the price of the item is rather expensive for one person to buy. So like in this case I was asked if I wanted to chip in for the item. I agreed as the item sounded good and budget wise it worked as well.
A benefit of doing this is that I don’t need to spend the time myself running around trying to find the person a gift. Therefore, I can focus on other things such as spending more time with work related things to earn more of course. Sometimes I end up being the person that does the shopping too of course if it turns out I am the one that has more free time in a certain day.
Although, many times this does occur on the spurt of the moment where the person sees the item right in-front of them and then makes the phone call to everyone asking if they want to chip in for the item. In that sense it usually works out well time wise for everyone.