The Serious Shopper: 11th Hour Gift Ideas

11th Hour Gift ideas!!

Marshall's Winners and Homesense are all open until 11pm every night leading up to Christmas Eve!

Cashmere scarf- luxurious and warm Marshalls $49.99 www.marshalls.ca

 

Leather gloves- with a touch screen fingers $29.99 www.winners.ca

 

Gluten free, sugar free etc. Hostess gifts: jams, vinegars and cookie mixes are more creative than a box of chocolates- more people are gluten free which shows that thought went into bringing the items

 

Plush throw blanket $39.99 www.Homesense.ca

 

BBQ set www.walmart.ca  they are open 24 hours a day until x-mas

 

Catch-Phrase www.walmart.ca

National Bank sells little tins of cookies for Breakfast Clubs of Canada which helps support school breakfast programs- $5- and it makes a great gift for teachers, mail couriers etc. www.breakfastclubscanada.org

 

Joanel LUX bag- the inside has an LED lining- a unique gift idea for the woman that always looses her keys www.joanel.ca www.brownsshoes.com

 

Perfume and Cologne Sampler with gift certificate $75 www.shoppersdrugmart.com

Visit the LCBO- grab a bottle of Ontario wine- then let them know that they will be receiving a different bottle every month to their home- bottles are chosen by a top wine critic http://www.winerytohome.com/

 

Minutes left- you are already on your way!

• Charitable gifts that you can buy later… Grab a wheel of Goat’s milk brie or a mango- you can grab them up at any grocery store, put on a bow and then write in the card that you have bought a goat or a mango tree on their behalf to help a family in a third world country.- then go to www.plancanada.ca and buy it online
• Starbucks has a ton of little gift ideas- ceramic mug with coffee
• They also have a ton of electronics and they will never know that you picked it up on your way over- including cameras- Powershot Canon camera, Sony IPad port dock, the new Wii U, video games
• Grab a magazine at a drug store or a gas station- slap on a bow and tell them that you have bought them a subscription for a year, or an e-subscription for the ipad
• Netflix- you can buy them a subscription and print out a gift card immediately OR https://secure.hulu.com/plus/gifting they will give you a month to a year
• You can buy them an experience- tell them you are getting them a dog sledding trip, ice climbing www.adventureseekertours.com every adventure is less than 3 hours from downtown Toronto