5 Tricky Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Teenager

Long gone are the Days when a small Toy brought large responses, now we have electronic gadgets that can do everything but sleep for us. If you have a Teenager in your house you are probably worried about your Budget for the Holidays. Unless you are a Millionaire that can afford those 4 figure price tags, I hope you will enjoy these simple and easy to get Gift Ideas for your Teenager and best of all, you will have fun watching them open the presents.

A Box of Gift Certificates
Think it is too impersonal? Only if you don't know how to spice it up a little. I love to play tricks on my kid and it is so much fun to watch the facial expression as she opens a Present she didn't expect. Think back for a second, when you were younger, what did you hate above all else as a Christmas Gift. Underwear and Socks right? A sweater?

Ok, so here is the Trick. Get a nice sized Box, a couple of packs of Underwear, a pack or two of socks. Then go out and purchase Gift Certificates to: Best Buy or Circuit City (Music and Videos), McDonalds or any other Fast Food Place, the local Movie Theater, a Bookstore (if you have a Bookworm like me) and the closest Electronics Store for boys or their favorite Clothing Store for Girls. You can make this gift as cheap or expensive as you wish. I usually keep the Gift Certificates around $25 a piece. Then Stuff the Gift Cards and the Underwear, Socks in the Box. Make sure they will see the socks and underwear first. Fill out the rest of the space with grumbles up Paper. Wrap it up real nice and tag it. Make sure you have a camera at hand when they open the present on Christmas.

For your Sweet tooth

Once again you need a box. You might as well stock up on them, they come in so handy. This time you want to make sure the outside it nice and brown and then paint a big white Cross (like the Red Cross) on the Box. Inside you put everything you can think of that is Chocolate. Hershey Kisses, Hershey Chocolate Bar, Chocolate Band Aids... Make sure you put some Fruit Roll ups, hard candy etc in it. Then make a fun little list for what each item is good for. You are creating a Chocolate Aid Kit.

For your sleepy head
Do you have a Teenager that wants to do nothing but sleep all the time? Can't get her/him out of the House or out of the Bed? Well, here is a nice way of getting them to go out. Remember, this is a joke present. Gather everything that has to do with Beds, sleep etc. How about an invitation to a mattress demonstration, a year's supply of batteries for their portable CD player, we wouldn't want them to have to leave the house to go and purchase some new ones. A new Pair of PJ's. A box or two of NoDoz - replace the drug with sugar pills or candy. A Certification of Sleepy Head of the year!

For your Book Worm
A fake Pair of "birth control" glasses, a long stripped scarf they can wrap Worm style around their neck, a long sleep hat, a special mug that reads - don't disturb I am reading. A Bunch of pretty Book Markers and don't forget a larger Gift Card to the local Bookstore.

For the Teenager that wants a Car, but is not ready to have one.
Get them a Key that looks like a Car Key, a pair of driving gloves and a box that full of Matchbox Cars. You can put a Hobby Car in it as well. A little Note inside that reads, when you get responsible enough to drive you may be able to find the Car to the Key. Mean, maybe, but it will work.

Of course if you make joke presents you better be prepared for the backlash. Some kids can not take the jokes, but you should know your kids.

Have fun.