You give gifts to make people who are special to you know how much you love them. The best way to make this happen is by finding a unique gift for them. By definition, 'unique' means something that has no pair, no duplication anywhere else. Hence, this will not be an easy task, but let me tell you it has great rewards.

The question should not be 'how to find a unique gift' but 'what could be a unique gift'. Now that you have changed the perspective of the question, it will be easy for you to reach to the right answer. A unique gift does not need to be something that can be quantified. It could be in kind, it could be qualitative, and it could be just a concept.

For example, you give your wife a set of four coupons printed especially for the occasion gifting your services for any four occasions she wants to endorse the coupons. This would make your wife feel on cloud nine (of course, provided you keep your side of the bargain and do what she asks you to do without any comments or resistance when she "cashes" the coupons).

In similar lines, your unique gift could be an exotic pet for your mother; it could be a well-researched self-learning craft book for your son, or a miniature ship modeling kit for your husband. The unique gift for your children could be a complete day or weekend when you are only with them - with absolutely no disturbance form the outside world. The kids would always remember such a gift, for the rest of their lives.

Not all the unique gifts need to be a life-time-remembrance material. They could also be just plain joy like a picnic with the whole family getting together, or a mountain trekking or a cross country drive just for the fun of it.