Last-Minute Christmas Ideas

Okay, it not quite last minute but it is almost too late to shop online for gifts. (And I do not know about you, but I am not nearly brave enough to battle with shoppers at the Malls, Target, or Wal-Mart on Christmas Eve. I value my life and the ability to walk far too much.) So here are some suggestions in case you are still sans present for that someone special.

• ProFlowers.Com: This is a great site if you still need to buy for a female. They pick and ship flowers directly from the growers, so they always arrive fresh (in my experience) and the prices are not too bad for flowers. They also have candy baskets and the like, if your special someone is allergic to the green things.
• Staples.Com: If you order from most tech websites now, they will be shipping their inventory from California or Texas. Good luck at getting stuff before Sunday. But Staples ships from your local store! So, chances are if you order now, it will go out tomorrow and be on your doorstep the day after.
• Ticketmaster: Most tickets you will buy now, will be for a show a few weeks or months out. So, order the tickets now and give her a card announcing the wonderful place you are taking her. The tickets will arrive before the show.
• Restaurant.Com: Gift certificates for local restaurants that you can buy online, print out on your home printer, and give right away. No muss, no fuss. (Unless the printer cart leaks, of course.)

Hopefully, this will be helpful to someone. Of course, there are also Amazon.Com gift certificates and the like, but that seems much less imaginative than these.