- le teed 54 - Sanday, Decembér 17, 1989 - Nerth Shore News AL 4 — — PART Gift certificates make shopping easy IF DECEMBER 25 looms like a foreboding deadline in your busy Christmas schedule and you're still pro- crastinating about getting down to some serious shopping, you might want to look at gift certificates to solve your gift-giving woes. Gift certificates offer several advantages depending on the type of person you're shopping for. If you’re buying for a finicky teenager son or daughter, clothes gift certificates are an easy way out for both the giver and recipient. It allows the person to mure or less shop for hin or herself and saves the returnin,, or exchanging of clothes because of the wrong size, color or style. No hurt feelings and no stressful hours of choosing clothes for someone with radicaily different tastes. Gift certificates are also a good way and often the only way to give a service to ease someone's hectic schedule. Rather than receive a material gift, some people might appreciate being given a service which will iighten their post- Caristmas work load. Finally, gift certificates can help one out of the maze of trying to buy for someone you don’t know very well or for the person who has everything. And, as a last resort, many gift certificates can be traded in for cash but somehow seem more per- sonal than giving cold cash. The following are a smattering of gift certificate ideas, both novel and standard: *® Along the iine of services, you could give your wife or a bachelor a break by buying the help of a housecleaner. A Woman's Touch House Cleaning in West Vancouver cffers gift certificates at $32, $48 and $64 which buys four cleaners for Tespectively 30 minutes, 4§ minutes or one hour. The team comes equipped with vacuum cleaners and materials and are fully insured and bonded. Owner Bronwyn Brown says the gift certificates are especially pop- ular gifts for pregnant women. “Then they can use it in January SUPER CHRISTMAS SALE! starts 15-12-89 while stock lasts By ELIZABETH COLLINGS News Reporter when they’re on their knees,” Brown laughs. * Another idea fora woman with a newborn is a diaper service. Stork Diaper Service provides diaper service to the North Shore on Wednesdays. For $12 a week, 80 diapers are provided. The min- imum time period is three weeks for $36. © Gift certificates are a gaod way to treat women and men to such things as beauty and relaxation sessions they wouldn’t buy themseives. Runaway Bay Health and Beau- ty Centre in Edgemont Village of- fers six-hour packages called King or Queen for a Day at $119. “It’s great because they can choose what they want,’’ says co- owner Jill Ferguson, adding there are three groups from which the gift certificate holder can choose five services. Among the 30 to 40 services Runaway Bay offers are such lux- uries as manicure, massage, facials, sculptured nails, waxing, sun bed, full hair salon, body wrap, slender tone, aroma therapy, diet consultation, brow arch and lash tint, and refiexology. Special gift combinations are also available for $49. e Vouchers to have a tailor-made shirt are another idea to get a “‘fit- ting”’ gift for someone. Quality Custom Shirtmakers issue gift certificates from approx- imately $38 to $85. The. price in- cludes labor and material. The Vancouver store has more than 1,000 types of material to choose from and 15 styles or will make the shirt up to a pattern brought iw. Sea Certificates Paga 55 PATRICK MULTISTUD reg. NOW Lerby, leatherloe. synthetic upper, sizes 310% 5999 § 45.99 Herolea, all leather, sizes 6-11 12195 107.99 Coupes, all leather, sizes 9:10% 15399 133.99 Cougar, synthetic, sizes 10 3495 27.99 MITRE MULTISTUD Marksmam, leather. sizes 5.13 6095 49.99 Titam, synthetic, sizes 10 jnr-6 adult 2950 23.99 NIKE 6 stud ieather, attack speed. sizes 8%.10% 108.49 99.99 HI-TEC, 6 stub Napoll leather. sizes 84:10 i449 101.99 Como leather. sizes $10 BY 78.99 GCALIE SHIRTS SAVE UF TO 60% Plus soccer bails — SAVE 10% Merry Christmas and a Happy New Soccer Year -- Torn Tom at SOCCERW EST = PE eet ter ML. Pato 984-9971 2 i1-1433 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver | ivan a OIE BOOTIE re NTT RTT Gift Ideas § for Under Under *15° Remember Men’s Night Dec. 19th, 1989 Each drawer holds 33 tapes with boxes 48 without boxes Silver Disc Record & Tapes Nerds Cookie Jar $Q77 each Christmas Records $37 each 984-9808 eee x wy i 5 act 4 NO): Mati Dorr cee { coafhy Mattapan | H Cea tetas t =i) PERRIER BENGE FIT SE Sheet Pins and Scarf Clips 8 ERIE 8 ENCE I SRP ite Ne & re CAPILANOMAL LL IC Lose ter Orne ‘ LAPEL PINS Santa, Mickey & More! Batteries included $4 495 - KERR'S «= KEYS-TROPHIES-- ENGRAVING CEASE AT ANAL CRZAEEL CUSTOM GIFT BASKET . / * Peppermint Toa — Thé Tropical Flre Toa — The Blackcurrant imported Toa Grand Marnier Honey h Amoreito Honey Chocolate Sulsso Assorts. Cinnamon Sticks S4 2.99 SECOND CUP 936- 9012 boone te ale Bea CORTON RS ASE OT oR ITS ES Cee a a