It’s the last weekend before Christmas and lots of people will be out to buy, buy, buy. Here are some ideas on possible gifts – please add yours in the comments.

The Financial Times’ recent, incredible perverse titled, supplement How to Spend It! featured this nice £70 million villa. For those who like their gifts more rural, my friend Vladi has some decent islands on sale. (You will have to negotiate carefully with him –  he once seriously tried to barter me with beach sand for some help on his computers.)

Back to earth: If you have to go into debt to buy a gift for someone, do not buy one.  If that person does not understand, she/he is not worth to receive one anyhow.

I like to make gifts myself. For friends at the workplace I made some calendars on pentagon dodecahedron on marble paper. A bunch of Origami flowers may have a more personal touch though.

Iraq blogger Raed is collecting money and organizes medicines to Fallujah. You may give some money for that issue and present the receipt as a gift.

You can get a good wine pick and some political advise from Dr. Vino.

For computer geeks USB Mince Pies are reasonable as is gingerbread.

Wired has the first edition of a new magazine Test downloadable. They tested lots of technical gimmicks – you know these must-have-now things that will cost half of today’s price next year. Never buy this stuff before Christmas. Make a nice gift certificate and get the real thing later. (I always buy my Lego Technic stuff used or on sale).

If the addressee of your gift is fundamental religious and/or part of that immoral majority that voted for Bush, you may want to give them an urgently needed Wash Away Your Sins Starter Gift Basket.

That store has trademarked What a trend we have in Jesus!. Next thing they will sell is the copyright for the bible. Now that would be a lucrative gift to receive.

Kitchmas aside, I like gifts. What are your ideas of gifts to give and gifts to receive?