Still looking for the perfect Christmas gifts for your friends and family? Hereare some helpful suggestions on how to prepare for some heavy-duty Christmas shopping.

As you begin to list things to get for your family members, one question comes to mind… “What to get?” It all depends on what age group you’re shopping for. This is a helpful guide to buying the perfect gift that will ensure a better present next year.

When shopping for the adolescents, there are two items you can’t lose with: Sony’s Playstation 2 and Microsoft’s X-Box. These two items have been big hits in the homes of American children for the last 5 years.

These game consoles has numerous games at reasonable prices that will give your child years of fun. The Playstation 2 and the X-Box would make great gifts for the females and males, which cuts back on a lot of hassle.

Another quality of the two game consoles is that they both have DVD players installed into them and, with proper attachments, you can play online against other people. With this gift you don’t have to worry about, after the next month’s episode, that the figurine you spent $40 on is going out of style and never getting played with again, which makes the Playstation 2 and X-box great gifts.

As you begin to shop for the teenage crowd you still have to shop in electronics to have the perfect gift. While in high school teenagers are still going on field trips, staying late after school, and walking home from school, so the next gift suggested is a MP3 player.

This could be more of an expensive gift in some eyes, but it’s worth it. With the MP3 player you don’t have to purchase CDs and listen to songs that you don’t want to hear. With the MP3 player, you can just download the songs you want off the Internet.

If you don’t have a computer at home, most schools have computers available, and there’s always the library. So, the MP3 player is definitely a winner for the teenage crowd, or you could just buy them clothes.

Even though college students are considered grown, and most of the time don’t expect anything, here are a few recommendations for the college student.

One gift that you can never go wrong with is good ol’ cash. Money can go a long way with college students. If you don’t have the funds to give money, there are plenty of things you can give like socks, shoes, t-shirts, washing powder, etc… because, to most, money isn’t pouring in like it used to, so almost anything can be the perfect gift.

Now, let’s move up to grown-ups. This is the hardest gift to get, and it’s always perfect. The hard thing about it is that most parents are kind of like mine, and will say, “Don’t worry about me,” which you can't do because they give you so much. So, the thing to get them is anything because whatever you get them is good enough, and because they know that it came from the heart.

Plus, they know you don’t have any money, so that makes it even more special.

Happy shopping and Merry Christmas!