If you’re like most Americans and have waited until the last minute to purchase all your holiday gifts, you might be feeling the pressure. Don’t sweat it! You can still find great holiday gifts for all your picky friends and family and they’ll think you spent all year carefully planning. Fools.

Consumer Advocate has some great sites to recommend that can help you find and purchase the perfect gift as well as provide you with many other holiday gift-buying tools.

The easy way to find great gifts,” is definitely Gifts.com, just as their slogan says. It’s a free service that provides you with the Web’s best gift ideas, customized for any recipient or occasion. They also offer a slew of personalized tools that can help you to give creative gifts that anyone will love. Since Gifts.com does not sell products directly, they are able to offer unbiased recommendations. You have the ability to create a personality profile for the recipient so that they can provide you with handpicked ideas from their gift-giving experts. You can easily sort the recommended gifts according to type and price, so you can make a decision by comparing offers. A unique feature is that you can save the recipient’s profile if you will need to purchase a gift for a different occasion. If you’re forgetful, the site allows you to set personal and holiday reminders that will be sent to you via email.

If you’re having trouble finding that perfect gift for you a child and need some creative inspiration, check out: Z Recommends. They have a 2007 Gift Guide that has many great kid-friendly gift suggestions for any budget. The recommended gifts are categorized as follows: Gifts for under $25, Gifts from $25 -$50, and gifts over $50. Z Recommends is a site owned and operated by parents of a 3 year old (that’s the “Z”). They review and recommend toys through their experience.

If you have a particularly finicky person to buy a present for, then you can’t go wrong with gift certificates. They are sure to satisfy even the hardest to please, and are a great choice if you need to buy in bulk for business purposes. Try GiftCertificates.com, which is the leading e-commerce provider of innovative reward solutions and gift products for both the corporate and consumer markets. They offer an extensive portfolio including their exclusive “SuperCertificate” Reward, which is redeemable for hundreds of original merchant gift cards. They also offer a variety of Merchant, MasterCard, and American Express-branded Gift and Reward Cards. The nicest part of all is that they have a dedicated support staff to help you during any holiday gift crisis.

Sometimes, it’s easier to know what not to do, rather than the things you should. MSN Money posted a great article describing 15 Worst Holiday Gift Idea. It sounds like it’s a joke, but it’s a really helpful article to guide you past common holiday gift pitfalls.

At the end of the day, you can’t please everyone, and they should know that. But, you can try your gosh darn best, and thats all that matters, right?

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