10 on Tuesday: ten last-minute gift ideas

1) Baked goods
2) Kits for baked goods (one of my student's mothers used to give me a jar of homemade pancake mix every year... loved it.)
3) A book. (We actually have duplicate copies of our favorite books just so we can give them spontaneously to our loved ones.)
4) A CD. (Almost out of fashion these days, but still appreciated by my older relatives.)
5) A knitting kit: download a fresh copy of the pattern, print it out, find suitable yarn in my stash, and add a pair of needles if the recipient isn't a already a die-hard knitter.
6) Dried fruit. I ordered a huge batch of it from Meduri when they had free shipping just after Thanksgiving, and have been handing out the tins to everyone I didn't think about enough in advance, like my children's gym teacher.
7) Stashed knit goods. I have a spare pair of adult mittens, two pairs of children's mittens, and a couple of scarves. Knit without an obvious recipient in mind, they wait on the bottom of my bookshelf until I have need of them.
8) A DVD.
9) Charitable donation in a friend's name.
10) If all else fails, a gift certificate.

10 on Tuesday: Ten things on your to-do list

1) See the doctor about a new asthma inhaler.
2) Finish knitting my cousin's fingerless, elbow-length mitts and mail them to Georgia.
3) Finish my mom's Xmas socks.
4) Buy a gift for my sons' violin teacher.
5) Buy a gift for my son's classmate who is having a party on Saturday.
6) Do the laundry.
7) Finish my mother-in-law's scarf.
8) Find the swift and ball-winder, which vanished when we rearranged the guest room.
9) Clean the dining room.
10) Get more sleep!