With just hours to go before Christmas, this is crunch time for shopping procrastinators.
People with gifts still to buy face crowded stores, tired and testy salespeople and ridiculously high overnight-shipping charges. So how do you avoid going into a panic and grabbing a pile of generic and boring gifts?
We asked personal shoppers and professional organizers for their best strategies for tackling last-minute shopping.
Are you on the prowl for gift cards this month? This might help you in your search.
Giftcardrescue.com, an online gift card marketplace, polled 6,000 people from January through October to determine the top 20 cards desired this year. It’s no surprise that Walmart, Amazon.com and Target took the top three spots, but the list also includes product-specific retailers in addition to Visa, American Express and MasterCard.
The full list:
