Last minute Christmas gifts are many times necessary for those who hurry through life. An unexpected relative drops by, or a coworker or friend and you need a few last minute Christmas gifts on hand in order to avoid the embarrassment of receiving a gift without having one to give in return. Last minute Christmas gifts are a good thing to plan for 'just incase'.

In fact, the last 2 weeks of Christmas time, we recommend carrying a bag full of last minute Christmas gifts with you wherever you go just in case you bump into some not-so strangers bearing gifts. We've put together a few last minute Christmas gifts that you can give to just about anyone. Our list of last minute Christmas gifts is by no means comprehensive and we encourage you to come up with your own list.

Travel Shampoos

Travel shampoos are available from the grocery store or drug store. They come in small containers and are handy. You can give travel shampoos to your friends and loved ones who are travelers as well as those who wish they would travel more. This covers most people.

Christmas Ornaments

Carry a bag full of Christmas ornaments around to give out as last minute Christmas gifts. Those 99 cent type of store will carry them during the holidays as will the popular import stores. You can even make your own Christmas ornaments using paper clips and sticky notes. The cheaper the better.

Plant Seeds

While plants are great gifts anytime, they are cumbersome to carry around during the holiday season, but carrying seeds is not. Carry many different varieties of seeds such as bonsai, cacti, Chinese medicinal, deer resistant, poppy, suffering succulents, tobacco, and yucca. If the receiver is not a plant person, then say the gift is a metaphoric one symbolizing the seed of thought and of better things to come.

Spontaneous Christmas Carol

Why not give the gift of song this Christmas? Okay, so you've forgotten to give gifts for half of your list of usual suspects. Perhaps best last minute Christmas gift is to break out into a spontaneous rendition of "Little Town of Bethlehem" or "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" or even "Starry, Starry, Night". Personalize the song by incorporating your recipients name into the song. Make it loud, grandiose and unforgettable. Sing it over a megaphone of the office intercom or in another loud, public and unforgettable manner.

No matter what last minute Christmas gifts you decide to give, it is best the you make them personal so that they don't seem like last minute Christmas gifts. Make them special and overdo it a bit, and with any luck you recipient will either never know the different or not call you on it.