Every year my family and I adopt an “Angel” from the Angel Tree. It’s a family tradition that we love and have been doing for as long as I can remember. So I was pretty excited to learn that The Salvation Army and JCPenney launched a new Angel Giving Tree Online program! Now you can easily adopt an angel and shop for them online.

We have done angel tree gifts for children, and even seniors before. If you haven’t done it before, all you have to do is pick your angel, then you get some basic information about what they need and want (and their sizes for clothing and shoes), then you just shop for them and drop the gifts back at the tree. You don’t even have to wrap them! It’s a lot of fun to shop in person for your angel, but of course if you are already really busy during the holiday season, doing it online is a great option.

To learn more about the program and to adopt an angel yourself head here: http://jcp.com/angel

Also, for the holiday shopping season, JCPenney’s Facebook page just launched a Gift Giving application that might come in handy when shopping for those hard to buy relatives.  The Facebook gifting application allows you to share stories, post comments and get shopping advice.

Check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/JCPenney