LAST MINUTE CHOICES

Who is running around frantically still in search of Christmas gifts? Let me see a show of hands. Can you see my hand straight up in the air??? I am ALMOST finished but I still have a couple small gifts to get but I don’t want to get out in all the mess. The thing I hate the very worst of all is the parking.I think that is why online shopping has become so popular. It is so easy to sit back, in your pajamas, with a cup of hot chocolate and a computer at your fingertips. Of course, if you have waited until today to do your last minute shopping then I am afraid you are going to have to brave the crowded parking lots and the long lines at the checkout counter. The good news is that you can go online and do gift certificates if you want and have them mailed to your email account. Then you can print them and wrap them as a present.

Are you stumped for ideas? Have you exhausted your brain with all the other thousands of details and lost any ability you had to give the perfect gift. Here are a couple of inexpensive and creative ideas that you can throw together in no time flat.

For someone who likes to cook:

• An Oven Mitt stuffed full of utensils and maybe a favorite recipe that has been handed down to you.
• Two mugs and three bottles filled with a hot cocoa mix, marshmallow, and miniature candy canes.

For a stay at home mom:

• A pair of houseshoes or cozy socks with some bath salts or lotions tucked inside.
• A pair of tickets to the movies and a bucket of popcorn

For the partying friend:

• A small basket with several of the miniature bottles of alcohol from the liquor store and a couple of nice tumbler glasses.
• A bottle of wine and 2 wine glasses.

For the golfer friend:

• A sleeve or two of colored golf balls and a divot tool.
• A golf umbrella or a golf glove.

When you really get to thinking about the person you are buying a gift for you see that it really isn’t that hard to pick the perfect gift. It truly is not the gift that matters anyway, it is the fact that you put some effort into the choice.

So, I am off to fight with the rest of us procrastinators. I’ll let you know if I survive!!!

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