Simple Holiday Shopping - Find Inexpensive Gifts from These 5 Stores

Best Buy has lots of great holiday gifts for reasonable prices. Their Panasonic VDR-D300 3CCD DVC camcorder is available for $649. This easy to use camcorder involves recording onto a disk and putting the disk into a DVD player and watching it. Best Buy has the best deal for one of these camcorders; other retailers typically sell the item for around $900.

Bestbuy also has a Nikon Coolpix S7c digital camera available for $350. This camera has a built in Wi-Fi so you can e-mail pictures to anyone directly from the camera. It also comes with a free one-year subscription to T-Mobile's Wi-Fi so you can also beam photos from any wireless internet place.

The Motorala KRZR phone also available from Best Buy for $150 is sleeker and slimmer. It also has a music-player and a 1.3-megapixel camera. The cell provider can be either Sprint or Verizon as Best Buy is a dealer for both.
Best Buy also has a Gateway laptop available for $749 and is cheaper than most laptops customized online. Gateway's laptop is 6.3 pounds, 15.4 inches widescreen and has 1GB of RAM and a 100GB hard drive. This computer is great for storing lots of music and photos. Most retailers sell this item for $1000, Best Buy offers the greatest deal on this item.

The Apple iPod of 30GB is also available from Best Buy for $249. The iPod displays video, stores music and goes for 14 hours without a recharge.

Prices on the iPod are fixed from coast to coast.

Williams-Sonoma is another great store that offers a Jura-Capresso Impressa E8 Fully Automatic Espresso Coffeemaker for $999. The machines are considered the elitist form of espresso makers and are capable of turning out a frothy cup of espresso within a minute. This machine grinds and tamps the beans, filters and heats the water and even discards the grounds.

Williams-Sonoma also has a fancy Descorjet Champagne Opener available for $35. It only takes a single squeeze of the lever which catches the cork.

Peppermint Bark from Williams-Sonoma available for $24 also makes a great gift. It comes in an attractive tin container and includes dark chocolate topped with a layer of white chocolate filled with peppermint bits.

A Railway Cake Pan available for $34 from Williams-Sonoma is also a great gift, especially for families with little ones. The molding includes 9 cars and it just needs to be decorated.

The Home Depot is also a great place to shop this holiday season. The Vector Tough Brite Storm Tracker is available fro $50 from Home Depot and it makes a great gift for outdoor types. It involves a TV, radio and lantern with rubber grips and guards. The radio includes a storm-alert warning and the tracker runs on batteries or electric current. It can even be hand cranked in case of an emergency.

Home Depot also has a $179 Private Wine Cellar which holds 11 bottles of wine and has eight preset temperatures.
Also available from Home Depot is the Pet Triple Tube Bird Feeder for $40. It holds 10 pounds of bird chow of 3 different varieties to attract many different birds. The feeder comes with a seven foot rust-resistant steel pole.

Another great gift from Home Depot is the DeWalt XRP Six-Piece Cordless Power-Tool Set for $649. The power tools included are a circular saw, reciprocating saw, hammer drill, impact driver, cutoff tool and a floodlight. They also come in a great DeWalt case.

Tiffany & Co. is another great place to find beautiful gifts. Their Frank Gehry orchid pendants are available for $150 or $185 and they are lovely and exclusive Tiffany designs.

Tiffany & Co. also has hourglass-shaped decanters available for $200 that is lovely in design and quality.
A cheese set from Tiffany & Co. containing sterling silver utensils in Tiffany's legendary chrysanthemum pattern is available starting at $295.

The Grand Watch made in Switzerland is also available for $1,550 from Tiffany & Co.
Toys "R" Us is the last stop with great gifts this holiday season.

The Fisher-Price Peek'n Play Discovery Dome is available for only $45 and it's a playroom of its own. It has 15 activities including small critters, mesmerizing colors, inviting texture and lots of toys. There is a squeaker phone, a shape-sorting mailbox, a ball-drop chute, and hanging toys to bat at. This toy is great for little ones ages three months and up.

Toys "R" Us also has a Fisher-Price Kid-tough Digital Camera available for $60. It has two-eye viewing, dual handgrips and a tough exterior with big buttons ready to snap and erase pictures. IT stores about 60 shots and can easily be downloaded onto PCs and Macs. The camera even comes with a USB cord for computer connection as well as a wrist strap.

These gifts and more can be found in 5 great stores without having to run all over town in search of the perfect gift.