Best experience gifts I have received over the years:
Wine subscription, coffee of the month, gifts certificates to local restaurants I can use for lunch, gift certificate to a nice cheese shop, bookstore (local not Barnes and Noble), we do use the Amazon gift certificates. Basket with some nice things in it and a related gift certificate. Small handmade note or gift and a gift certificate to something nice (the gift doesn’t matter). Useful pottery gifts ( not coffee mugs).
Ones we don’t use that much: Museum of Science for a year ( kids were little and overhead was big), theater tix ( could never get there kids were too busy); cheap gift baskets where the crackers are old, the cheese is fake or it’s more Godiva ( just no thanks, not even the kids like these). Generic mall store gift certificates. Yuck. Terrible selection, don’t really love these mega chains. And you know someone bought it without much thought.
Love a really nice throw blanket if you live in a cold area.