Soon it will be Christmas season again - at least at the stores and the malls. It used to be that Christmas shopping season traditionally began the day after Thanksgiving but in recent years, desperate retailers have been hauling out the lights and the plastic santas earlier and earlier, encroaching even upon Halloween.

To get you started on choosing gifts for those hard-to-please people on your list, Neiman Marcus has issued its holiday catalog featuring gifts from $25 to $1.7 million. This catalog may finally answer the question “What do you get the man who has everything?”.

How about a trip into space? Or a BMW?

Neiman Marcus gift book offers space flight, BMW