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Best last minute Christmas gifts of 2023 that are ideal if you've run out of time

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The Christmas season hasn’t truly begun until you utter the words ‘it gets earlier and earlier each year’.

But despite that many of us have the festive season on our minds as soon as the days get darker, it’s not till December 25 is truly looming that we get a kickstart ticking off our gifting list.

Sure, the adage ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail’ is echoed in our thoughts but we’ll leave it to our New Year’s resolution to change our last-minute habits.

Over at ES, we get a first look at the Christmas offerings of many and most of the major labels so count ourselves in a good position to sort the wheat from the chaff to find you the failsafe presents that are sure to delight when the big day arrives.

We’ve curated gifts for every person on your shopping list – for her, for him, for teens, for mums, for kids, for gaming lovers, for technophiles, eco-warriors, charity gifts and those looking for the personal touch – but now we’re on hand to help out the zero hour shoppers among you.

In this curated guide, every item listed is available for either next-day delivery, click-and-collect in short order or even same-day in some cases.

Panic-free shopping awaits…

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