Author: Mickey Brown & Jason Stahl

Nobody wants to be that person driving around town from store to store on Dec. 24 looking for last-minute Christmas gifts. You and I both know you’ll wind up at a pharmacy or mini mart buying one of those terra-cotta figurines that has chia growing from it when you water it.

Don’t be that person!

Fortunately for you, if you’re still looking for a gift this late in the game, we did most of the work for you — all except for you having to pay for the gift. Here are our favorite last-minute gift ideas for Christmas that will make your final week of Christmas shopping easy…as long as you don’t wait until the very last minute.

Holiday Signature Tower

Two is always better than one, and these two towers are filled with premium snacks, including several that are “covered” in goodness: chocolate-covered popcorn and cherries, and yogurt-covered pretzels. And if you like your chocolate all on its own, it also offers six signature truffles.

Christmas Brunch Hat Box

You can’t just eat Christmas cookies all day. OK, maybe you can, and kids certainly will if left to their own (just-unwrapped video game) devices. After all the presents are unwrapped — and the youngsters come down from their sugar rush — set out a lovely brunch consisting of triple-cheese and caramelized onion quiche, and Canadian-style bacon. But wait, there’s more! Spread the raspberry preserves on the Wolferman’s traditional English muffins and end the meal — or save it for an after-dinner dessert — with a cranberry orange loaf cake.

Christmas Party Collection

Ain’t no party like a Christmas party ’cause a Christmas party don’t stop! And when you send a gift this substantial, they’ll be partying well into the new year. The Christmas Party Collection is also hefty, weighing in at nearly 40 pounds! In all, this gift is made up of 14 components, from a 5-pound box of Royal Riviera Pears to the Ultimate Meat and Cheese Gift Box to the Grand fruitcake confection. It’s so massive that it arrives in two separate shipments! Now that’s one party they won’t have to worry about running out of food for.

Deluxe Holiday David’s Gift Tower

Two may be better than one, but four, well, four is certainly better than two. Not to take anything away from the aforementioned Holiday Signature Snack Tower, but the Deluxe Holiday David’s Stacked Tower has four tiers! Everything that comes in it, however, is top tier, including Royal Riviera® Pears, chocolate truffles, raspberry galettes, sesame sticks, and three-seed crackers. Did we mention it also includes Harry & David’s famous Pepper& Onion Relish? Yeah, it’s got that too.

Home for the Holidays Mixes Collection

I believe, but don’t quote me on this, that baking cookies on Christmas morning became an official holiday law sometime in 1973. Good thing for this last-minute gift idea, huh? The Home for the Holidays Collection comes with two mixes — gingerbread sugar cookies and peppermint scones. And what goes better with cookies and pastries on Christmas morning than hot chocolate? Wash these treats down with your choice of chocolate truffle, Belgian white chocolate, or salted caramel cocoa.

Buttercream Frosted Holiday Cut-out Cookies

One of the best things about Christmas are Christmas cookies! Instead of going through the hassle of baking and sending your own — who knows how they’re going to turn out — send a box of Cheryl’s buttercream frosted cookies, which are guaranteed to be delicious. Warning: These cookies will go fast because of how irresistibly tasty they are. (Trust us, we know from experience.)

Cabernet Sauvignon & Truffle Gift

Whether it’s a last-minute Christmas gift or hostess gift (New Year’s Eve is just around the corner!), the pairing of wine and chocolate in the form of a full-bodied cabernet sauvignon and dark chocolate truffles is a no-brainer. Enough said.

Fireside Date Night Wine Gift

Sure, this comes with dark chocolate popcorn and chocolate-covered grahams and chocolate-covered pretzels AND dark chocolate truffles AND cocoa-covered almonds — and those sweets are all well and good (delicious, actually) — along with a bottle of merlot, but the pièce de résistance is the sherpa-lined throw blanket. Anything lined with sherpa equals instant coziness. Even without a fire to snuggle up next to.

Super last-minute gift ideas (same-day delivery)

OK, so, you’ve waited until almost literally the very last minute to buy your gifts. Here are three floral options that will arrive the same day you order them. You’re welcome for saving you from having to face the ire of your friends and relatives this Christmas.

Fields of Europe Christmas

This festive arrangement of white lilies, red roses, carnations, and alstroemeria is perfect for a joyous Christmas party or holiday gathering. Tied up with a red bow, this gift is everything we love about the season in flower form!

Santa Paws

For dog lovers and animal lovers, this Santa Paws creation is just so gosh darn a-DOG-able! Complete with a little Santa hat and sitting in a gold holiday ornament container, this arrangement is ready to bring holiday joy wherever he goes.

Holiday Magic Bouquet

At first glance, this arrangement might not seem very Christmas-y. But with its combination of red roses, purple dianthus, limonium, and stock, and burgundy carnations ― plus Christmas greens dusted with gold (not the real stuff, sorry) ― you’d be hard pressed to find a more elegant holiday bouquet out there.

Shopping for the big presents is easy. The big screen TV for your football lover, the VR headset for your gamer, the snowboard for your wintertime thrill seeker — those all are no-brainers. It’s the little gifts that can be harder to hone in on.

Before you find yourself resorting to a pair of socks or impulse buys at the supermarket checkout, stop. You can do better.

Here are nine thoughtful stocking stuffer ideas that your loved ones will delight in pulling out of their stockings come Christmas morning.

Hand-painted Ornament

Christmas ornaments can run the gamut, from incredibly special and meaningful to fairly generic and forgettable — this one definitely falls in the latter category. The gorgeous collectible hand-painted glass ornament features a charming one-of-a-kind cardinal design by beloved artist Susan Winget, and it even arrives in an elegant keepsake box. This is one Christmas decoration that you’ll have hanging from your tree year after year.

Hot Chocolate Tin Collection

If your Yule log has entered the digital age, then you’ll need something to actually keep you warm while you sit around listening to the crackling sounds of fake flames. Nothing is cozier than a warm mug of hot cocoa on Christmas morning. (OK, maybe being wrapped in a Sherpa-lined blanket while sipping the cocoa.) This Holiday Hot Chocolate Tin Collection includes four festive tins, each filled with a different cocoa flavor (peppermint, white chocolate, milk chocolate, and caramel), making it easy to split between stockings. Just add warm water — not to the stocking, of course — to these mugs. Or, for a creamier brew, use warm milk. (Mustache not included.)

Chocolate Truffles

If you’re looking to sweeten up someone’s Christmas, look no further than this box of Limited Edition Holiday Truffles. Six different seasonal flavors, including gingerbread, candy cane, and crème brulée, all handcrafted in the Harry & David candy kitchen (their version of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory) perfectly placed in one little box. The chocolate lovers in your life will be thanking you all day (while they wipe the creamy chocolate off their face).

Gnome Salt & Pepper Shakers

We all know someone who loves to make their home a winter wonderland. What better gift for them than some winter-themed salt and pepper shakers? This adorable holiday gnome set will bring some cheer to any table throughout the holiday season.

Malted Milk Balls Jar

Does anyone really know what malted milk balls are? There’s chocolate. There’s some kind of crunch inside. The flavor is a bit nutty. Let’s forget about those particulars and focus on the overall wonderfulness of these delightful gourmet malted milk balls, which come all snuggled inside a reusable quart jar. If you get these, go ahead and turn it into a challenge to see who can catch the most in their mouth. Guess what the winner gets? Another malted milk ball!

Santa Stocking & Cookies

This gift will not fit inside a stocking, but that’s OK because it is a stocking — one that comes already filled with, as the name suggests, cookies! A dozen buttercream-frosted holiday cutouts are stuffed in a stocking adorned with Santa’s jolly face, a sprig of (fabric) holly, and a bell. You can try to find a more festive-looking gift than this, but we bet you’ll come up empty (unlike the recipient’s belly will be soon after they get this).

Coffee Assortment

While the kids are sipping on the aforementioned hot cocoa, their parents will be enjoying the wake-up juice you so generously gifted them. (And they’ll need it after little Tiffany and Johnny woke up at 4:30 a.m. to start unwrapping their presents.) These exceptional coffees come in three holiday flavors: butterscotch caramel, toffee nut, and dark chocolate candy cane. After a few hours of the hurricane known as Christmas morning comes blowing through, those adults might want to consider making this cup of java a more potent one.

Cookie Dough Popcorn

It’s almost impossible to describe how delicious this flavor of popcorn is, but we’ll give it a go. The good folks at The Popcorn Factory start with cinnamon sugar popcorn — amaze! — then proceed to toss in mini chocolate chip cookie dough bites — our mouths are literally watering — then drizzle it all in white confection — swoon! — and, finally, top the whole darn thing with red and green sprinkles. Go back and read that again, and then tell us this isn’t something everyone on your list would want to find in their stocking on Dec. 25. (You’re lying if you say it isn’t.)

Personalized Wine Glass

It’s the time of the year when wine lovers break out the Beaujolais Nouveau (or another of their favorite wines), and there’s no better way for the oenophile on your list to enjoy a libation than in a personalized, classic modern stemless wine glass. Each one is custom printed with up to three lines of text in your choice of font. With 24 design colors to choose from, it’s easy to mix and match a couple or set of four to warm your wine drinker’s heart on cold holiday nights.