However, your gifts need not be the usual diamond jewelry, expensive home d'cor, leather designer items and haute couture dresses. Instead, you can choose to make your Mom laugh with your unique choice of gifts this Christmas. Why not try these ideas of Christmas gifts for Mom this year?

Remember how you and your siblings used to drive your mom crazy because of your long forays in the bathroom reading, playing the guitar and just dilly-dallying with your ablutions as kids? Well, now is the time you introduce her to the pleasures of mind additions while doing body subtractions!

You can provide her with rolls of Sudoku toilet paper, which allows her to solve the 9X9 logic-based number-placement puzzle to pass the time while her toxins follow the logic that they should line up and place themselves in the sanitation system of the house.

You have to consider, however, that with the Sudoku toilet paper, you are also condemning yourself to the pains of your mother when you were kids while she is enjoying the mathematical puzzle at your expense. Still, this might be one of the most enjoyable Christmas gifts for Mom!

Now, if your mother loves to invent new thingamajigs out of old, ordinary things in the house, then books on the Japanese art of unuseless things called chind'gu are a good bet. You will save money on Christmas gifts for Mom when you encourage her to putter and tinker around the house because you don't even have to buy her expensive appliances!

Just give her the chind'gu books and she is all set to be the next Thomas Edison of unuseless things, which in the far distant future can become useless things. There is always hope for her idea of an apron with all sorts of kitchen gadgets - ladles, knives, can opener, and potato peeler, to name a few - hanging from it because she wanted everything to be within reach, literally! Shush, never mind that like all chind'gu, it made for funny and embarrassing moments.

Instead of your mother slaving over the stove for Christmas dinner, you can take her to exotic restaurants that serve good food and good drinks albeit in weird and wacky atmospheres. You might even get a pat on the back for coming up with the most hilarious Christmas gifts for Mom! You can take her to these dining establishments:

- Dog restaurants that are animal-friendly to the extreme. Your ordered dishes will be served in plates that allow for cats and dogs to eat directly from them, with chairs custom-made for the purpose! Of course, you and your mother can accompany your pets and bark and meow over the delicious food, too.

- Toilet restaurants that allow you to eat in the atmosphere of well, toilets. Just whose idea this was, you can thank him because there is something good to be said about eating poop-shaped and poop-look food while sitting on toilet bowls and eating out of toilet-shaped dishes. Whatever good that is, you decide.

Indeed, why settle for humdrum gifts when you can give hilarious Christmas gifts for Mom that will be the stuff of family legends?