I have gotten her jewelry and books the last few years and want to get her something different. She is 60 and doesn't need anything cause she always goes out and buys things herself. Any suggestions?
2007-11-30 02:09:55 · 11 answers · asked by Mauki90 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
A friend of ours told us about the same thing, coming over to her parents' house and finding gifts still stacked, unused and unopened. They had brought dish sets, hand towels, etc. but these gifts were never used! So there is something in common.
Gift cards or certificates may seem a little impersonal but they are still useful. My mother is in her 70's and reasonably well-to-do but there were a couple times that she needed a new microwave oven (was she dropping hints that Christmas?) so one trip to a department store and presto! Mom had a much better microwave and she was so happy! A similar instance a few years before that when she was complaining about her coffee maker (again, hints?? I never was too good about picking up on those!). One trip, one new coffee maker, and one happy Mom.
Lots of the other responders have given good ideas and I hope you and your mother will have a wonderful Christmas this year.
2007-11-30 02:44:00 · answer #1 · answered by Brother Jonathan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pedicure or Manicure
Gift Certificates for her Hair
Take her out for lunch/movie/sporting event/ theater production
Christmas Ordament - special for mom. Better yet a dated one from Halmark and there you go you have a gift for her each year for the rest of your lives.
A good book - The Secret
Think about some of the memories she had from Christmas and try and recreate.
Go through old photos of Christmas and buy picture frame ordaments for the tree and fill them with memory pictures
Take her on a drive to see Christmas lights, have christmas music in the car and then out for dinner.
Give things that are in her home that are time to be changed. Towels/blender/toaster...
Apple Ice Wine
Sign her up for a course in the community with you. Either making Christmas Cards/cooking. The time spent with you is important. Seriously one of the best gifts I gave my mom was a woman's retreat. If was a a full day of breakfast with a speaker, sleigh ride, forcing bulbs, advice from an interior decorator, shopping, dessert buffet. I also gave this to my sister and grandmother and to this day she talks about it (so do the others). It really was a special memory and cherished memory for all of us.
2007-11-30 02:24:47 · answer #2 · answered by Violet 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Make her something. I assume you have children and you could order for about $60 a photo blanket with them on it. That would mean alot to her. Go to JoAnn and buy some fleece material... if she likes leopard get her that. Maybe a sports team. Cut the ends 2 inches and tye them together.
2007-11-30 02:42:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Giftcard for a place that she regularly goes or has a hobby. I get sewing shop card for mom that quilts. That way she won't have to feel at all guilty on a splurge item.
Do something like a family picture and get her a nice print. Think outside the box for something that would be meaningful to her.
2007-11-30 02:18:00 · answer #4 · answered by #2 in the oven 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
buy here theater tickets and tell her you will go with her and also take her to dinner.
lighten up here is a joke to help you.
twas the night before xmas and all through the house the whole damm family was drunk as a louse mom home from the cat house and i out of jail had just settled down for a good piece of tail. when all of the sudden i heard such a clatter i jumped off of mom to see what was the matter. away to to window i made a mad dash i threw open the window and fell out on my azz. and what to my blood shot eyes should apear
but a rusty old sled and a dozen raindeer. with a little old driver holding his stick I knew in a momment that b astard was st nick. Quicker then snails his charges they came he bitched and he swore and he called them by name. now dancer now prancer up over the wall quick now dam it or i will cut off your balls. i heard him exclaim as he drove out of site piss on you all its been a h e l l of a night.
2007-11-30 02:22:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
make her a basket of baked goods or a spa treatment. Try giving her a book of poems you wrote yourself...homemade gifts are always the best! Or you could also make a scrap book of all evnts you remember and stuff!
Merry Christmas!
2007-11-30 02:14:58 · answer #6 · answered by Jessay 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does she like to cook? There are always new cooking gagets coming out. I want a grill top that fits on your stove's burners so that you can grill indoors.
2007-11-30 02:27:58 · answer #7 · answered by lexie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have same kinda issue for my Grandparents so we bought them a digital photo frame and uploaded years of photos of everybody that I know they will enjoy looking at.
2007-11-30 02:15:16 · answer #8 · answered by Pugmama 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have a star named for her or sponser an animal.
2007-11-30 02:43:49 · answer #9 · answered by anne b 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clean her house,really good, including windows.
cook her favorite home cooked meal.
gift certificates to her favorite restaurant, or other.
2007-11-30 02:33:48 · answer #10 · answered by LYJC 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋