Avoid last-minute shopping nightmares by making a gift-buying plan before you head to the mall. Need some ideas? Check out these unique (and affordable!) presents that’ll impress your most valued clients and colleagues.

The perfect gift for golfers: Leather golf belts that will help them easily mark the location of their ball on the green. Green Friendly Golf Co.’s belts, for men and women, come with a divot tool kit and ball marker cleverly concealed in the tip of the belt, so there’s no scrambling. The belts are so stylish you might want to wear one yourself, whether you play golf or tennis or bridge.

Give home owners a taste of something new with personalized coffee and tea packages. Après Café in Lancaster, Pa., packages personalized coffee and tea gifts with both the giver and recipient’s names. Choose from such special blends as Organic Mexican Chiapas or Melange Francais and herbal, green, and fruit-blended teas.

Price: Gift boxes range from $10 to $55; single pounds, $10 to $15; and three-pound boxes from $30 to $55.

Where to get it:www.aprescafe.comor 877/777-3451

Ever since the Sudoku craze took hold, puzzle fans have searched for other ways to fulfill their yearning for number games. Franklin’s Electronic Kakuro looks like an ordinary crossword puzzle but uses numbers instead of words. The goal is to fill all blank squares with the numbers 1 to 9, so that the numbers entered add up to the corresponding clues. When you’re stumped, a “hint” button offers some clues. Three levels of difficulty make the game suitable for a range of ages and abilities.

Price: $24.95 

Where to get it:www.franklin.comor 800/266-5626

Price: $60 

Where to get it:www.sluggergifts.comor 877/775-8443

Give a gift that customers can use for the place they call their second home — their car! Instead of giving a booklet of free car wash coupons, go a step beyond with a car detailing gift certificate. Detailing helps maintain the longevity of a car’s paint, removes blemishes, and keeps it shining like new. Some companies even have mobile vans that will come to an owner’s home or office. Feeling extra generous? Add some extra services like carpet or upholstery cleaning.

Price: Prices vary by company and size of the vehicle. One Las Vegas firm charges $25 to $35 for a small or mid-sized car, $35 for a small SUV, and $45 for a large SUV. Another shop in St. Louis charges $139 for a small or mid-sized car, $169 for a small SUV, and $199 for a large SUV.

Where to get it:Check your Yellow Pages or go online and look up “detailing” with the name of your city

Get customers to hop on the green-is-good bandwagon. Practitioner Charmaine Engelsman-Robins, ABR®, SRES, with Keller Williams Lakewood Ranch in Sarasota, Fla., gives new home owners a basket brimming with environmentally friendly goods. She buys a large basket and fills it with a native plant that the home owners can plant in their new yard, information on local recycling guidelines and pick-up dates, placemats laminated with ideas to help the environment and conserve water, and one compact fluorescent light bulb.  

Price: $25 to $35 for the basket and contents 

Where to get it:Engelsman-Robins buys baskets at thrift shops, finds a plant at a local nursery, bulbs at a hardware or big-box retailer, and gets booklets on recycling from her local waste management office. She finds placemats with environmental ideas at stores and museums, or she’ll make them herself using information from a local recycling or department of agriculture office. She then has the placemats laminated at a printing company.

Help buyers and sellers share photos and videos with friends and family with a subscription to Redwood City, Calif.’s One True Media. Recipients choose the photos and videos they want to use, upload them to One True Media’s Web site, and add creative options (such as music or special effects). The company then puts the selections on a DVD. Recipients also have the choice to place their selections themselves on a TiVO channel, post them on a blog or social networking site, or e-mail them.

Price: $39.99 for a year’s subscription, or $3.99 a month 

Where to get it:www.onetruemedia.comor 866/691-8783

Motorcycle enthusiasts will drool over the scenic routes mapped out in Rand McNally’s Harley-Davidson Ride Atlas of North America (2nd Ed.). The book helps recipients plan adventures with 29 highlighted rides and a 16-page ride log, plus a listing of state and local motorcycle laws and the locations of Harley-Davidson dealerships.

Where to get it:www.randmcnally.comor 800/333-0136

Clients will appreciate a day of green house cleaning — or better yet, a week or a month. They’ll especially love having Maid Brigade come to their house to get it in tip-top shape before house guests arrive. The company has 400 franchises in 37 states; most of which offer green cleaning with products such as allergy-free, anti-bacterial cloths and mops, and procedures certified by Green Seal Inc., a nonprofit organization that standardizes green quality. 

Where to get it:www.maidbrigade.comor 888/79-GREEN

Where to get it:www.dreamscometrue.orgor 904/296-3030

Give your clients a meal they’ll never forget. Gift certificates from Restaurant.com, based in Arlington Heights, Ill., can be purchased in amounts of $25, $50, $75, and $100 and can be used at more than 8,000 restaurants nationwide, as well as with food retailers like Mrs. Fields and LobsterGram. For added attention, have certificates customized with your REALTOR® logo.

Where to get it:www.restaurant.com, www.theperfectpremium.com, or 800/979-8985

Turn your clients into do-it-yourselfers by purchasing a collection of Stanley Work line of FatMax tools and packaging them in a spiffy toolbox. What should you include? The Xtreme Antivibe Hammer dampens vibrations; the 40-foot Tape Rule is one of the longest self-retracting tape rules available; the 4-inch Pocket Driver fits is designed to work with small computer electronics, cell phones, and eye glasses; the lightweight Fubar II is useful for prying, splitting, and bending boards; and the Xtreme Magnetic Torpedo Level offers lifetime accuracy, guaranteed to 0.0005 inches.

Where to get it:www.stanleytools.comor 800/STANLEY

Give home owners a spa-like experience every day with Moen Inc.’s “Inspire,” a hand-held, oversized rainshower showerhead. A thumb tab on the fixed and hand-held models allows easy switching between settings, which vary from a relaxing wide spray to an invigorating concentrated dousing, and a refreshing combination spritz. The octagonal, 9-inch rainshower head envelops a bather’s entire body for a total cleansing. The fixed and hand-held models are available in chrome, white, and brushed nickel; the rainshower head is available in chrome.

Where to get it:www.lowes.comor 800/BUY-MOEN