Ten Last-Minute Gift Ideas.
- A hand-knit sweater. Not.
- A Calorimetry. THAT is doable.
- One of Judith Durant's One-Skein Wonders books and a skein (or three) of luscious yarn. The best part is you get to go yarn-shopping.
- 99 Essential Christmas Masterpieces from Amazon. It only costs $1.99 (if you bought each individually it would be $98.01), and it ships online. From Roger Ebert on Twitter.
- A tin of home-made [fill in the blank -- fudge, cookies, candies, whatever you are good at]. One year I made several different kinds of spiced nuts. They were a hit and, I like to think, a welcome break from the never-ending stream of sweets.
- A donation to the recipient's favorite charity. This is what I did for #1 Son for his birthday earlier this month and he was quite pleased. It becomes increasingly difficult to come up with an appropriate gift when one's offspring is 26 and lives a thousand miles away.
- *Gift certificate* good for something you will do for the recipient -- snow shoveling, childcare, lawn mowing, future knitting, whatever.
- Oops, I'm out of ideas. Good luck!
