If you're like me, the thought of shopping in a crowded mall this month makes ya wanna gag like Paris Hilton in night vision. That's why I love the Internet. Because not only can you learn things like "Alyssa Milano prefers masturbation over one-night stands," but you can basically do all your shopping online without — unlike Ms. Milano — lifting a finger.
Anyway, I've scoured the Internet near and far, from Google to, um, Google, to find for you the best holiday shopping guides, with gift suggestions, reviews, prices, direct links to merchants and everything you could ask for to avoid running into stressed-out moms and bratty kids at the local mall. Or, as we like to call it in New York, the street. But we don't have many kids running around. I think we murdered them all.
Get started now, 'cause in a few weeks you'll be stuck in a Best Buy getting those last-ditch DVDs and cursing yourself for not buying something on Amazon.com, where they have like 100 gazillion more interesting products.
• CNET's Holiday Gift Guide — Consumer electronics suggestions from my favorite tech site.
• Maxim's Great Gear — Plenty of gift ideas with a gent in mind. Funny, I don't see a porn section anywhere.
• Washington Times' Holiday Gift Guide — What Santa's likely to see on wish lists, sorted by different gift groups (teens, stocking stuffers, family fun, etc.)
• MSNBC's Holiday Gift Guide — High-tech gifts for aspiring rock stars, a guide to buying a telescope (or not), 10 rules for buying gadgets and more.
• Barnes & Noble's Holiday Gift Guide — A book is the easiest gift there is to give. Just pick an interest, find a popular book and buy.
• Amazon.com — Dude, the whole site is a year-round gift guide. If you can't find a gift on Amazon.com, you have no brain.
• GiftCertificates.com — Sure, gift certificates lack personality, but so does a bad sweater. At least by giving a SuperCertificate, you allow the recipient to shop in any of a ton of stores.
• SI.com's Holiday Gift Guide — DVDs, video games and books — in other words, stuff sports fans can get much cheaper on eBay and Half.com.
• About.com's Women's Fashion Guide — According to this, purple is the new pink and ponchos are trendy. I guess it's true — all women really are insane.
• CNN/Money's Gift Guide — Gift ideas for the Road Warrior, Foodie, Garden Lover and more.
• MLB.com's Holiday Gift Guide — They'll slap a baseball logo on anything these days. Putters, trucks, cue sticks, you name it.
Great shopping suggestions!
Don't forget asseenontv.com for everything from crap to more crap to...the Jenna Jameson bikini trimmer for only $19.95.
Anything from Tiffany.com will keep a man from getting dumped on Christmas.
If it is not from BarnesandNoble.com or Coach.com then all you get from me is good old fashioned cash $ for Christmas.
Yes, sad but true...purple is the new pink. I don't care, I am not givig in to that bullshit trend. To true girly girls, pink never goes out of style.
Posted by Cass at December 2, 2004 7:14 AM