12 days of christmas type birthday gift ideas - HELP!

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'Tis DH birthday and I won't be there due to looking after ill mother. I'm the other end of the country.

DH is very hard to buy for as we have most things. By that I mean, if there is something reasonably priced and we want it, we just buy it. Which means gift giving has to be novelty or consumable otherwise its gift giving for giving sake.

I have this notion of sending him a series of little things over a week to 10 days - sort of a drip feed present type of thing. Could be novelty.

For example, one year he kept going on about how he'd love a boat one day - so I got him a radio controlled one for the pond.

I just have no blinking idea where to start so thought the MN panel might have ideas....

That's difficult! Would foody things work? Like a bar of his favourite chocolate, box of nice tea, bottle of wine, that sort of thing? And then something like a posh showergel/bubble bath/soap and a book and a DVD he'd like?

I know its difficult. If I'm there then I normally pamper him, take him out for dinner, that sort of thing.

I might look into the food ideas.......

Good luck!

Don't bother - sounds too stressful and it'll and up in the junk box.

What about leaving little notes dotted around (like in cupboards, the fridge etc) telling how much you appreciate and love him.

Alternatively, you could hide little chocolate gifts with little love notes. I did that for DH once and he really like it.

Agree that there's a danger that this exercise would turn into giving for giving's sake.

If you're at the other end of the country, you could get gift wrapped things delivered from Amazon or elsewhere. Bottle of gin/whisky/rum etc, nice chocolates, a book, cufflinks etc?