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Christmas Gift Ideas For Him 2010 - What Would Surprise Him?

We all have a special man in our life, but finding a good gift can be difficult. This following guide is peppered with great Christmas gift ideas for him in 2010. Instead of the usual boring gift ideas like kindles or Wiis, instead we're going to discuss healthy options to help you improve his life, and maybe get him up and running a little more too!

What to get?

Christmas Gift

There are many health and wellness gift ideas. A great Christmas gift idea for him 2010 is to give gifts that inspire healthy habits and activity. You can get a cooking class, exercise membership (it can be inexpensive compared to an exercise machine), energy pendants or join a group with him that's fun and entertaining.

Something Different...

Energy pendants are pretty much the most affordable gift out of the entire bunch and the most accessible especially if he's out of shape or overweight. But what are energy pendants, and what can they do for you and your special man's health?

How does it benefit?

A thing to consider is that they will improve flexibility and stamina, already a great boon to anyone who is starting out on a new fitness journey or just trying to shake things up. They achieve this simple task by basically being a charged positive energy that repels and destroys negative energies that can interfere with a human being's natural balance. This protects you from modern diseases caused by EMFs or electromagnetic fields.

When you look for a pendant, you should check out the source website to see what information they have available. A good source will have lots of informative articles, videos, and other information that will help you come to an informed decision.

People who have used these pendants have lots of good things to say about them. Here are some of the benefits of energy pendants:

Greatly increased stamina, flexibility, and enhanced physical performance;

A deeper and better sleep;

Better memory and mental alertness.

These make excellent gifts if you're hoping to improve any of these attributes for him! They work pretty easily, all you have to do Is place it about your neck and it starts working immediately without any batteries or other accessories or power sources.

You really can't go wrong with whatever present you decide to give him; there are many great Christmas gift ideas for him 2010. Just think hard and buy something they'll love and you'll do fine!

Christmas Gift Ideas For Him 2010 - What Would Surprise Him?

The Best Christmas Shopping Day

Big shopping days are the Friday after Thanksgiving, the day after Christmas, and New Years Day.

New Years Day is the day that women get even with their husbands for watching a zillion football games. They spend and spend and spend.

Christmas Day

The problem with all of these days and all the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas is that there are a zillion customers in the stores. To get there they cram the streets with their cars. The clerks are working themselves to death. When they get home at night they say, "Oh, my feet! My feet!"

The best day to do Christmas shopping is the day that the stores are full of new Christmas merchandize that has not been picked over.

There is a plethora of clerks a smiling.

The clerks joke with you, help you find the right set of earrings for each of your twenty-three granddaughters, binoculars for your nine grandsons, a stuffed lion for your great granddaughter, books for your kids and their spouses, and then the clerks say, "Have a nice Thanksgiving! Can we help you to the car?"

Now you have guessed the day, haven't you?

How many said, "Christmas Eve just before the stores close when the stores panic if they have too much leftover merchandise. They cut their prices and you buy, buy, buy!

If you are not poor, you are wrong. Now days, the stores have to cut their prices much earlier to compete with Target® and Wal-mart®.

The best day to shop is the day before Thanksgiving.

Stay-at-home moms are all baking pies.

Working moms are heading straight for the grocery store at noon and after work.

Nobody goes shopping that day but my wife and I and a few little old ladies who have "caught on."

We went shopping this morning and were home by 3:30 p.m. That was after I had the salmon at the Sizzler® and my wife her usual salad bar. I had a salad bar too.

When we got to the Sizzler®, I was starved from shopping for our five children, their spouses, our 32 grandchildren, including two new spouses, and our great grandchild that still says, "Goo, Goo!" (Our triplets still say, "Goo, Goo!" too.)

I started with a bowl of clam chowder, then salad, then the salmon, then the ice cream. Yum! Yum!

Back in our home town exhausted by the metropolis of Twin Falls with its thousands of people, I laid down on the bed to get the kink out of my back that I always get when shopping.

When I woke up, I had missed Jeopardy®.

That's when I decided that I had to get the presents under-wrapped (that is in the wrapping under the pretty stuff. I made up the word. Go ahead and use it).

I needed to write the name of the child, grandchild, or great grandchild on the inner wrapping or my wife might send a wrong present to a wrong person in a wrong state!

She didn't want to, but she gave me a hand.

Now I'm sure that we will be sending a wrong present to a wrong person in a wrong state.

But we have plenty of time to do it!

Shop early!

Be of good cheer!

Damn the torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead!

copyright©John T. Jones, Ph.D.2005

The Best Christmas Shopping Day

Christmas Gifts For a Woman

We have spent a considerable amount of time surfing the web, looking at gifts, and picking out only those that we felt were truly special. Here's what we have come up with, our "Best of the Web Gifts for Women" if you will.

1) You can't go wrong by getting that special woman in your life tickets to see their favorite performer. What type of performance do they like? Are they into the ballet, or ice skating perhaps? Perhaps she would like a good belly laugh by watching her favorite comedian perform live? TicketNetwork is definitely the place to go as they have a fantastic selection of quality tickets available. Here are some of the top acts that they are currently selling tickets for:

Christmas Gift

Top Concert Events

* Trans-Siberian Orchestra tickets

* U2 tickets

* Bruce Springsteen tickets

* Jay-Z tickets

* Taylor Swift tickets

* AC/DC tickets

* Miley Cyrus tickets

* Metallica tickets

* Pink tickets

* Kellie Pickler tickets

Top Theater Events

* Wicked tickets

* Lion King tickets

* Jersey Boys tickets

* Mamma Mia! tickets

* Phantom of the Opera tickets

* Billy Elliot tickets

* A Steady Rain tickets

* South Pacific tickets

* 700 Sundays tickets

* West Side Story tickets

These are just a small sampling of the tickets currently available. Go to TicketNetwork and get her tickets to her "Show of a Lifetime".

2) Did you ever have that special piece of candy that when you eat it today, it takes you right back to your childhood? Well, want to really impress (and perhaps startle) that special lady in your life with the "I really thought about this present" statement? Why not ask her what her favorite candy was then she was growing up, then head on over to Candy.com to check out their vast selection of tasty sugary treats. They have a wide range of candy available, and even some of those "off the radar" and "hard to find" items. As an example, they sell Gold Mine Gum. We haven't seen this candy in circulation in years. This stuff sure brings back a lot of memories when we were growing up. Your lady will love you if you are able to obtain some nostalgic candy that she has been salivating over for years, but could not ever seem to find...

3) Who doesn't love chocolate? I'm sure there are a few, but I haven't met any of them. If you want the best of the best in the world of chocolate, go to zChocolate. Why do we say this? Well, for starters, zChocolate has been rated as Forbe's favorite online chocolatier since March 2005. How's that for an endorsement. In addition, their chocolates are hand-made by 4 (count them 4...not 1) award-winning French chocolatiers including Pascal Caffet, a world champion. Do you live in some far-flung area of the world? Don't worry, they ship their chocolates anywhere in the world via DHL. Yum...

4) Does that special lady on your list love a good cup of coffee? We've got just what the doctor ordered...Gevalia Coffee. Gevalia is a purveyor of fine European coffees (built upon a tradition of fine craftsmanship encompassing over 140 years). They sell more than 30 varieties of coffee and 13 varieties of tea. With such a wide selection, Gevalia can suit the various personal tastes, moods, and desires of even the world's most discriminating tea and coffee lovers. You can customize and choose which blends, roasts, or origins you want to order. Each coffee is vacuum-sealed, and packed shortly after roasting...this ensures the highest standards of quality. Why is this company on our list? The fine coffee sure, but you can get a "free" coffee maker thrown into the deal just for trying their coffee out...how's that for a bargain?

Christmas Gifts For a Woman

Best Selling Christmas Toys 2009

Last year the toy of the year award as voted by the Toy Retailer relationship went to the Ben 10 series. The year before it went to a set of toys from In the Night Garden. The theme seems to be a toy related to a popular children's television character and this will probably be the same pattern for the best selling toy of 2009/2010. Young children love toys that are familiar, toys that they identify with the television characters that they see. In 2008 the pre school toy of the year was again, In the Night orchad and toys such as Star Wars and toys featuring Thomas the Tank engine (pre school toys of the year in 2005) commonly win toy awards.

In 2007 Rubik cube won the award for being the best puzzle on the market. In 2008 right up until Christmas it was on the best selling toy list for Amazon. It isn't a new toy but still holds a fascination for children young and old and of course adults.

Christmas Toys

Sylvannian figures and houses won awards both in 2007 and last year. They motion to girls as cute collectible animals with a huge range of accessories. They are likely to be on the best selling Christmas 2009 list for girls, along with lego for a best selling building toy for boys.

If you stick to toys that win awards and keep an eye on internet market such as Amazon who have high volume sales for their best selling toys from September onwards, you should get a good idea of which toys are likely to highlight on the best selling toys list for 2009.

Best Selling Christmas Toys 2009

Christmas Shopping in Germany

It may be Summer now but here in the UK we're all well too aware how quickly Summer can turn into miserable Autumn weather. So what better time to plan your winter break and have something to look forward to when the rain clouds set in?

I've always been the type of person who likes seasons to be seasons. I like Summer to be hot and sunny and winter to be snowy and cold. Taking a break somewhere hot in the winter has never really appealed to me. I say, embrace the weather. So the ideal winter holiday for me? Germany, at Christmas.

Christmas Eve

If you're as much of a fan of Christmas as me you'll know there is nothing more exciting than the sight of fairy lights and the sound of festive music while you do your Christmas shopping. This is often hampered however by the sight of frenzied crowds and the sound of stressed-out shoppers. Not to mention the unhelpful shop assistants and the remarkably non-festive department stores. And that's where Germany comes in.

Germany knows how to do Christmas - and it certainly knows how to do Christmas shopping. Why get your family and friends the same old gifts from the same old stores when you can visit Germany's fantastic traditional markets. The most popular Christmas market in Germany is the Nuremberg Christkindlesmark. The market dates from 1639 and is held from the Friday before advent until Christmas Eve.

The stalls sell unique and traditional pieces so you're sure to find something special for that special someone. And while you're shopping, get into the festive spirit with a glass of mulled wine and some roasted chestnuts which are on offer at all the markets.

Plus, don't miss the opening of the market. The Lord Mayor performs the opening ceremony in the Marienplatz in Nuremberg city centre when the Christmas lights are switched on.

Christmas Shopping in Germany