Gift cards are the ultimate last minute gift idea.
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Last year, gift card sales rose 12% from 2010, while overall holiday spending was up 4.1%.
"GPS is an easy, last-minute gift, especially if you're concerned about whether people have it or not, " Baker says.
Poisson wants to take on those plastic presents of last resort: gift cards.
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E-readers and tablets (including Amazon's Kindle Fire e-reader, which is a modified Android tablet) were a popular holiday gift item last year.
Last week we celebrated the gift by Leonard Lauder to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York of priceless Cubist paintings and sculptures by Picasso, Braque and others.
Unfortunately, this will never go back to just gifting each other with homemade cookies, but you can give yourself some financial relief by giving the same gift you gave last year.
And the Internet is allowing people to buy -- and send -- gift certificates at the last minute.
When the European Central Bank broke its traditional role as lender of last resort and morphed into a gift giver to its member banks (to the tune of more than a trillion dollars), much like our Fed, the equity markets soared.
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"It's a gift that can really last and evolve as the baby grows, " said Ms. Restoin Roitfeld, whose website, Romy and the Bunnies, features interviews with other chic mothers as well as tips on how to avoid stretch marks and tame post-pregnancy hair.
Last week I wrote about seven great gift ideas for your foodie.
There's a cast iron Boston Terrier doorstop. (A gift from me on her last birthday.) There's even a miniature ceramic Christmas tree enwreathed in Boston Terriers instead of tinsel.
Last year the American Heart Association declined a gift from Michael Gold and Lee Siler, cofounders of Stockdr.com, an Altamonte Springs, Fla.
Twenty-seven percent of gift-givers wait until the last minute to make their purchases, according to a 2006 gifting survey conducted by Pennsylvania-based Unity Marketing.
It became the number one "Most Desired Gift" on Amazon.com during last year's holiday season and, eventually, a Harvard Business School case study.
In the last many years, Roger gave us a great gift through that blog, opening up and sharing more of himself, his life, and his beliefs.
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The gift card--the definition of the last-minute present--is also expected to sell well during the holiday season.
Nielsen surveyed children 6-12 and teens, and the iPad remained the number one most desired gift this Holiday Season, as it was last season.
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Twenty-seven percent of people plan to give food or liquor as a gift this holiday season, slightly more than last year, but down from 35% in 2007, according to Deloitte's 2011 Annual Holiday Survey.
More than 13 percent will buy gift cards, up from 12.6 percent last year.
Gift cards often get a bad rap as the last resort in holiday shopping, what we supposedly get only when all hope of a carefully considered present has gone out the window.
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Gift certificates to the Sydney Seafood School are available for last-minute presents as well.
Sixty-two Senators managed to agree to participate in the gift exchange, a number that was an increase from last year.
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As a share of holiday spending last year, the NRF found that 80% of people bought gift cards, up from 77% in 2010.
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The stir over the decision in the last fight, in which many observers thought Bradley was handed a gift decision, provides plenty of ammunition for promoting a rematch.
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Daumier spent the last seven years of his life living in a country cottage, the gift of his friend Corot.
"I wanted to win the gold medal as a gift for Thailand's Queen, who celebrated her 72nd birthday last Thursday, " said Udomporn, who was congratulated on the phone by Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra minutes after her triumph.
His ethics stumbles (which included not paying taxes on a Caribbean villa, and taking a number of sun-filled trips which were paid for by corporations), were many and well known, yet went unpunished by Congress until last month, when he was admonished by the House Ethics Committee for violating gift rules.
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