Did you forget to buy somebody a Christmas gift this year?  A situation like this can be devastating especially if it was one of those slipped your mind type of situations.  Most people will suffer through the embarrassment of not having a gift rather than waiting on horrendously long lines and the last minute holiday shopper’s rush.  However, you may have a few alternative last minute Christmas gift ideas.  These normally also depend on how last minute and how creative you can be when it comes to making a last minute Christmas gift appear to be not so last minute.

The first obvious instinct during the holiday season when one forgets to buy a Christmas gift is to run into any store and pick up the first item that he or she sees, as long as the line is not too bad AKA lined up all around the store.  This can sometime work, but then you probably will not even get anything useful for your standing on the line efforts.  So how can you find a more useful Christmas gift with less time to spare, well going online to look for a gift on the internet could be very handy.

If you have two or three days before Christmas Eve then you may still have the chance to purchase an impressive gift that is Last Minute.  Many stores around the holiday season will have same day shipping to get you your last minute gift just in time for the holiday.  Others offer Ground to Next Day shipping when you are on an even tighter schedule.  Such online store that offer these services include most major gift basket stores, some personalized stores, Jewelry stores, and some gift stores such as Brookstone and Kazoo Toys. 

You can also run to a favorite restaurant of this person to see if some gift certificates are available.  They should not be too crowded and the gift certificate could come in rather useful.  If not you can always go with the money in a card trick as long as you have a great message to go along with it.  If you know this person is saving up for a car for example, you may want to write a message pertaining to your recipients savings for the car and that this little addition may help bring him or her one step closer to his or her dream gift. 

If all comes to worse, buy a meaningful gift from any store online.  It does not matter if it will be there by the holiday season or not.  Buy something that you are sure that this person wants.  Buy a card and place a printed out picture of the gift into the card.  Therefore, when the person opens the card he or she will be very surprised thinking that at best they got a check.  Then write a cute message explaining how shipping from China takes a minimum time of six months and that their new Christmas gift will be arriving soon.  Therefore, he or she may not be getting the gift that day but he or she knows at least what to look forward to in the next few days. 

These are the best last minute Christmas gifts in case you are stuck in that sticky situations!