70th Birthday Gift Ideas Needed!

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Please help hive-mind! DP has a female relative about to turn 70 and we're completely stumped as to what to get her. She has everything she needs and claims there is nothing she wants but of course we'd like to give her a special gift to mark the occasion.

To give an overview, she lives alone, reduced mobility, lives in a cold country, can't be anything too heavy as she'll need to take it home (she's visiting us for Christmas), budget circa £100.

I suggested a nice cashmere scarf or similar but he's [ shock] at paying so much for a scarf. A digital photo frame has also been discussed but it turns out she recently got rid of one she didn't use.

Her coming visit will be the first time I meet her in person so I'm not sure of her style when it comes to clothes / jewellery etc and DP is useless on that score.

In brief, we're stumped!

Thanks in advance :)

Maybe tell your DP that £100 really isn’t enough for a properly grand birthday scarf.

Very difficult when you don’t know her at all and the person who does is no use. And a country colder than England? (Or perhaps you’re elsewhere?)

I might also, for want of anything better, have suggested a fabulous scarf from somewhere like Begg & Co … But that’s probably out.

(Am I just here for the twenty thousand posts suggesting you spend the money on ‘posh chocs’ or ‘nice hand cream’?)

Isn’t there a fabulous place, restaurant / theatre / whatever - local to you, that might constitute a suitably celebratory birthday outing for the three of you?

Yep a country even colder than England (considerably so). A meal out has been tabled with her and 'she'd like that, but prefers but home-cooked' which is short-hand for the sneaky wee Lady trying to insist nobody spends on her!

And now I have a secondary dilemma, in that if DP thinks £100 is too much for a scarf, how am I going to get this by him?? www.beggxco.com/womens-diptyque-basile-lambswool-angora-oversize-scarf-monochrome.html

Oooh! That’s new. (I spend far too much time on their site.)

They do have sales, of course, but rarely of the thing one wants.

Btw, would it not be possible for you to order her gift online and have it sent to her home - so she wouldn’t have the trouble of transportation?

The 70 year olds I’ve known recently have tended to be pleased with clothes, tech, bedding (new wool duvet, luxury bed linen, etc). Aha! How about a very much more luxurious (wool) duvet than she already has in her cold country? Order to arrive once she’s returned home.🥶

Have thought of something I’d like if I were in her shoes!

A single piercing and the finest gold (and diamond dust) stud my loving family cared to offer.

Ha ha! I love that. I'll suggest it.

She has recently joked that she's going to find herself a toy-boy with a motorbike (her partner of many years sadly passed earlier this year) so maybe a Tinder Plus subscription?

Also very much like the cosy bedding / blanket idea.

Hotel Chocolat velvetiser

I would go with cashmere or pretty soft set inc fingerless gloves.

...matching her eye colour.

A heated throw delivered to her home in advance?