If you're scrambling to find the perfect gift this holiday season, get inspired with stories and advice from people working through their gift-giving dilemmas. (And best of all...most of these gifts are completely free!).

After 23 years of marriage, M.J. Kang is determined to break the gift-giving rut she and her husband Oren have fallen into…as soon as she finds the perfect gift.

After a northern miner’s home burns to the ground, more than 100 strangers in a distant city pitch in to help him rebuild. So why is it so hard for Guy Martial to accept their gift of kindness?

Ophira Eisenberg attempts some high-level negotiations with her 8-year-old son over his epic Hanukkah wish list.

Newly dating couple Marcello Di Cintio and Shari Beverage have thrown down a Christmas challenge for each other: all their gifts have to be made by hand. Except Marcello isn't particularly crafty. And the wooden nesting dolls he's painting look like a horror show. We check in on how they're each dealing with the pressure of high (and crafty) expectations.

Singer-songwriter Ila Barker gifted herself a tiny chihuahua puppy for her birthday two weeks ago, to celebrate a whirlwind year of travel and hustling to promote her music. Will Sunny the puppy behave as she and her musicians perform?

Luna Bella Zuniga has transformed hundreds of kids’ bedrooms over the years, using nothing but paint and her imagination to create lush forests, starry ceilings and playful shrines to Elmo. How the gift of a magical space to call their own helps kids going through tough times.