Last Minute Gifts

Started by Lil Me, Dec 17 07 12:11

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Lil Me

Dec 17 07 12:11
Suppose you leave your shopping until the last minute on Dec 24.  Any good gifty ideas?  Anything good at avail at 7-11 or the Chevron Town Pantry?
 hahahahahah
 
 
   
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

P.C.

#1
Dec 17 07 12:18
No....there isn't.  lol

  But if you've got an hour or two, these are REALLY cool.  Carefully crack some walnuts so that you have two perfect halves.  Remove all the nut stuff.  

 Pull up some neat quotes or 'fortunes' on the net.  Print them around the size of the fortune in a cookie.  Cut them out and place in the nutshell, and glue them back together.  A really light dusting of gold spray paint, and you have what are called Guilded Walnuts.  They're an old Victorian novelty.  Bundle up a dozen in some clear paper or tissue.  Cute huh?

  Set them in a dish with a nutcracker when your guests are over for a neat little surprize.    
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

purelife

#2
Dec 17 07 12:23
buy some fruitcake?  i'm sure there will be plenty left.  

P.C.

#3
Dec 17 07 12:46
True purelife.  I think I got the same fruitcake back 3 times.  
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Lil Me

#4
Dec 17 07 02:12
oh.  Good ideas!
 
 Much better than the last-minute gift pack of smokes, gum and a Playboy.
   
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

purelife

#5
Dec 17 07 02:44
Cash is also always very last minute or you could go to Safeway where they sell gift certificates to many places like La Senza.  

Lise

#6
Dec 18 07 06:00
Packet of condoms. Always handy.
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby.

Sportsdude

#7
Dec 18 07 08:44
wine works
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Lil Me

#8
Dec 18 07 09:06
condoms and wine?
 
 Seeing as most of my friends are guys, I don't think I can give away condoms and wine.  They will think I wanna...oh, never mind...
   
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

P.C.

#9
Dec 18 07 10:19
Is there any kind of pre-paid punch cards for coffee and muffins ?  That might be nice for the guys.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

purelife

#10
Dec 18 07 10:27
How about scratch and wins?

Chocolates?

Gift cards to Best Buy/Future Shop?  

Sawdust

#11
Dec 18 07 11:36
Gift Card to Lee Valley, they've got something for everyone. It can be ordered by phone, sent via e mail and redeemed on line. Perferct.

(no really, I'm, not dropping any hints )
The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.

P.C.

#12
Dec 18 07 12:22
You sly fox. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/xmas/c005.gif" border=0]
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Sportsdude

#13
Dec 18 07 01:45
well if they're guys. Depends.
If they're folks like Sawdust, I have a hunch he likes home depot gift cards (or maybe that's P.C. ;) ) over FutureShop or Best Buy.
 
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

P.C.

#14
Dec 18 07 07:13
Actually they DO have something for everyone at Lee Valley.  I knocked off about 85% of my Christmas shopping there last year.  Kid stuff, cook's stuff, gardener's stuff, general neat stuff.  And it all came to my door.

  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/xmas/e018.gif" border=0]
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.
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