I found it very interesting when many friends bought one gift for a friend. This allows to buy something expensive, something that your friend will need. For example, once we contributed money and bought our friend a laptop, and at other times we gave him a smart watch. It is always better to buy one gift, but expensive than a lot of unnecessary small gifts. At least I try to do that. For this I can even ask a person what gift they would like to receive. Once I was at a birthday party and the guests were given just a whole lot of unnecessary gifts. Only gift baskets were given probably ten pieces. I wondered what a person should do with so many gift baskets.