An L.A. shopper’s guide to last-minute gifts

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If shipping deadlines have passed and online shopping isn’t an option anymore, check out our home and garden gift guide. (Yes, the one we’ve been flogging for weeks.)

The L.A. at Home crew hit more than a dozen local shopping districts. The result is a long list of gift picks and store suggestions to help those who want -- or need -- to shop by foot and not by fingertips.

Readers outside Southern California can give it a shot too: Call the store in question and ask: Can you (and FedEx) save me?

Let the shopping begin: 99 gifts for home and garden