Holiday Gift Buying Anxiety

Luxury travel gifts abound - but it's more than okay to simplify the process.

© Jennifer W. Miner

Dec 8, 2006

Finding the right Christmas or Hanukah present can be time-consuming. Here are some travel gift ideas, but gift cards free up your time. One-stop shopping is better!


This happens to me every December. With the holidays around the corner, I search and search for ideal presents for the important people in my life (oh, and my family, too). There are so many gift options out there, it's kind of mind-boggling. And by the time Christmas and Hanukah are over, I'm so creatively exhausted that I NEED it to be a New Year.

One year I focused on holiday gifts for gadget lovers - and, being married to a gearhead, I felt relatively safe with my options. My parents love to travel, so I'm always happy to learn about great gift ideas for travelers. What with travel gifts for my girlfriends, gifts for some guys I know, and so on and so on - well, it's time consuming, to say the least. That's why it was nice to see this Motley Fool article about Starbucks gift cards. Gift cards! They're not considered tacky anymore, hooray!

So easy to buy, the one-stop shopping of gift cards takes the horror out of Christmas shopping. Click here for some amusingly awful holiday gift ideas: Give someone the Worst Present Ever, and next year, he or she will be delighted to just get a gift card.

Because, honestly, what would you rather unwrap - a gift card for free coffee, or a hermetically sealed frog dissection kit, complete with dead frog? The answer's clear to me, and I haven't even been to Starbucks yet today.


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