Today I CANNOT say how thankful I am for Amazon.com. Love, love, love this site. I did 80% of my Christmas shopping on there this year. I love it because of the ideas you get on there. They have lists of the top 100 items, you can specify what age group you are looking for...and I LOVE the customer reviews. I changed my mind on something I was going to order because of the reviews on it, and I bought two things I had never even heard of because of the 38 GREAT reviews on them! Can't wait to see if they are as big of a hit as all the reviews said they were. They did have free shipping on some of my stuff, but some I did have to pay shipping for. I figure by the time you go from store to store...your time and effort are worth it!! And you don't have anyone at the store giving you reviews on the products. I love to shop, but I love to shop online more I think! It saved me this year.