5 Share experiences from afar.

Finding, buying and wrapping the perfect gift is another opportunity to feel connected—it’s a way to keep your loved ones top of mind when you’re out and about this season. Take it a step further and source an experience you can share or live vicariously through. Find something you recently did (and loved) or want to do in your city that’s being replicated where your loved one lives, like a play, a choir performance or an art-night event. Send your parents to dinner at a restaurant you’ve been dying to try in their town. Give your brother a gift card for the movies, then watch the same flicks so you can compare reviews. Or pay for your sister to take some Zumba or burlesque workouts (hey, don’t knock it till you try it) and dish on the phone after classes.