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Have you bought an amazing present for a man in your life recently?

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Musicalstatues · 20/05/2019 09:18

Aagh, normally I have plenty of ideas for dh birthday but this year I’m stumped. He’s suggested a main present (a new lawnmower, so exciting!) but I need some small and medium gifts to go with it and I have no clue!
He has no particular interests annoyingly, maybe gardening and Game of Thrones!

Has anyone come up with an amazing present recently that they would like to share?

Thank you!

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FlaviaAlbia · 20/05/2019 09:25

Joining your thread as I'm a bit stumped this year too. I've got DH a tool roll for his bike that straps under the seat and a water bottle that claims to keep liquids cold for 24hrs.
Thinking of buying him a bag of the jarred sweets he likes as a little thing too.

Spanneroo · 20/05/2019 09:28

I bought an enormous kilner jar and filled it with retro sweets from a sweet shop. Went down a storm.

He always likes getting socks, so that's become tradition. Got him some new good quality bluetooth headphones last year and they've been used a lot since.

tigerbear · 20/05/2019 09:29

It wasn’t a birthday present, but recently I bought DH and I tickets for a GOT immersive experience - 3 course dinner ‘banquet’ style, surrounded by actors playing out tongue in cheek GOT related scenes.
Obviously it depends on where you’re based, as I guess immersive experiences tend to happen only in big cities.
We are central London and there are so many of these types of thing to choose from - we’ve been on treasure hunt type ones across the city, immersive theatre, all kinds.
I think most cities have ‘escape room’ type of experiences.
It’s a nice fun thing to do together instead of a physical present.
Would your DH like something similar?

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Theredjellybean · 20/05/2019 09:35

My dp completed a sailing challenge that was a definite once in a lifetime experience and I had cufflinks made with racing yacht engraved on them and the date he crossed finish line.
He only like very plain silver cufflinks so I made it a very simple line design and very discrete.
He loved I'd made such a personal effort

Musicalstatues · 20/05/2019 09:41

@tigerbear do you have a link to that game of thrones banquet? That sounds amazing!

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keepingbees · 20/05/2019 09:49

My DH is an absolute nightmare to buy for.
I usually scrape the barrel with things like perfume/aftershave sets, chocolates, nice clothing.
I bought him an expensive watch for a special birthday even though he never wears it.
What about an experience day? Groupon do some good ones.

Daffodil2018 · 20/05/2019 09:53

I definitely second the suggestion for noise cancelling headphones. The Bose QC or Sony ones are amazing and would make a great present.

Badgerthebodger · 20/05/2019 10:04

A massage? DH came with me under sufferance on a spa day once and is now hooked Grin

Nice jumper, posh face stuff (No7 is nice or splash for Clarins if the budget allows)
Hot towel shave
New rucksack
Tickets for a gig/event/sport
A subscription to something - there are so many options with this from coffee to curry to anything you could think of
For DHs bday this year I gave him a year of dates soppy I wrote out a card for each month which said what we were doing for a date, so we’ve been to a night at an observatory, out for dinner, I booked a weekend away, bowling, some daft some nice! He loved that.

DieCryHate · 20/05/2019 10:13

Ticketmaster vouchers for gigs, noise cancelling headphones, decent whisky he wouldn't normally splash out on, festival ticket to go with his mates and a cheaply done 2 night stay in Europe to go to a bar he heard about based on one of his favourite films. These are the ones that have gone down very well. I won't bore you with the ones he politely accepted but clearly were crap!

RubaiyatOfAnyone · 20/05/2019 10:15

If he would appreciate a nice edition, Folio Society have juat brought out a lovely illustrated version of the first GoT book:
www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-game-of-thrones.html

LondonLandonLindon · 20/05/2019 10:22

I’ve just got a usb mixed tape for my dp. It comes in a little
Box and you can add songs, voice recordings etc. My dp doesn’t really need anything but I’m planning to add songs that make me think of him, special songs etc. Think he’ll really like it and it was only
About 15 quid

tigerbear · 20/05/2019 11:04

@Musicalstatues - not sure how to link, but take a look on a website called Fever Up - they’ve got loads of different listings.
The one we did is called Dinner Is Coming.
We weren’t expecting the food to be brilliant, but it was!

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