Minnie Driver: I Want to Give Friends Camels!

This holiday season, friends and family of actress Minnie Driver might be getting an unexpected gift.

"I want to give them camels," Driver said in an interview with Oxfam America Unwrapped, an organization that allows users to give gifts -- everything from mosquito nets to a water purifier to a goat or camel -- to those less fortunate.

"It's this amazing gifting program where you can give gifts to your friends that go to those in need," Driver said. "I'm a big fan of camels because even though we don't have camels where I live, they are remarkably useful in and around Sub-Saharan Africa.

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"Their milk, their endurance... their spitting abilities," she joked. "No, not really. That doesn't help anybody."

So, why such a unique gift for her friends?

"I don't want to be cluttering people's already-filled cupboards with more socks and scarves and rubbish," she said, adding that giving a camel through Oxfam America Unwrapped is a great alternative because it's something that the recipient doesn't have to see, but they know it's doing good.

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Her gift-giving sensibilities might be an effect of one bad present.

"It was a thong with my name on it," she said about the the worst gift she's ever gotten. "It was disgusting, in rhinestones. Why you would want a gift like that, I don't know!"

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