31.   Champagne is the ideal holiday gift because it is essentially a festive wine.

32.   Cindy Mushet of Los Angeles likes nothing better than to cook up and festively package an array of holiday gifts from her kitchen.

33.   Consider the lowly tie, a quintessential holiday gift.

34.   Demand for gold normally peaks in December and January when consumers buy jewelry as holiday gifts.

35.   Do you have a friend who is new to the computer world, or is expecting his or her first computer as a holiday gift?

36.   Desperate for a holiday gift?

37.   Even among those who did buy something online, only a fifth said that they used the Internet exclusively to buy holiday gifts.

38.   Enemies of gun control are readying a perverse holiday gift for the nation.

39.   Flavored pecans can be attractive homemade holiday gifts or a nice pickup snack on the coffee table.

40.   Garden Escape offers this attractive Web site for ordering botanical holiday gifts, including live Christmas trees and wreaths.