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Make sure your library is participating in the smile.amazon.com website and make sure to advertise the fact to folks in your town.
Someone already mentioned a gift-wrap table for Christmas...what about something like $35 for a (volunteer) personal shopper for a gift list of "x" number of items. That would only work in a town where you actually trust people - because either the buyer would have to cough up funds ahead of time or the shopper would have to trust the buyer to reimburse them. Many folks know what they want and just don't have the time to do all the running around.
Is there a storage facility nearby? See if you can get them to volunteer the use of an empty unit until Christmas, and advertise a place to stow presents until Christmas. (Okay, that might be far-fetched - but I remember it was one of the hardest things for my mom to find a place we (five) kids wouldn't find the gifts, once we gave up on the idea of Santa). Might have to arrange insurance...so this might not work out.
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