Help! Present for 13/14 year old boy?

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Budget around £15 to £25 but can stretch if needed for something good.

Maybe a voucher for somewhere but no idea what this age group tends to like?!?

Anyone? Ideas much appreciated!

Steam voucher or cold hard cash!

Thanks! Will look up Steam.

Happy to do vouchers but want to avoid cash do any voucher suggestions welcome.

Maybe somewhere like JD Sports? Or Costa/KFC/McDonalds.

Or there’s always Amazon I suppose.

I think a voucher is a good plan for that age and stage.

DS got mini-arcade machine (£20 in Argos) for 14th birthday & loves it.

I’d go for vouchers - steam / Amazon / cinema / Xbox / PlayStation etc

DS is 15 and tastes haven't changed in the last few years. He would use Steam vouchers or money or food. Only other presents he's liked have been headphones and a beanbag but those are more expensive.

My DS14 would say no to an Xbox live or JD sports gift card.....

Sorry that should say 'wouldn't say no to'.... 😬😬😬

These are brilliant thank you!

He would love McDonaldd/KFC but his parents would not be impressed lol.

Will look up the rest.

Cinema vouchers.

Band/cult consumer item/destination t-shirt has worked for me (hip US city)

He would love McDonaldd/KFC but his parents would not be impressed lol.

Then give him that. He is a teenager, if parent's are that controlling he needs a good aunt/god mother/friend in his life

Nandos gift card? Or if you're near a Greggs he could get a sausage roll each time he passes

Nandos

Find out what games he plays before buying xbox/ps/steam as they will be useless if wrong, if you dont want to give hard cash and he had a console a voucher will go down well. Much better than a cinema ticket where he needs friends to go with who would need to pay, or jd sports where parents need to top up to buy something.

My DS14 would love Costa voucher , McDonalds voucher but even more aftershave ! He had Diesel Brave (bought from outlet & very much loves it)

Other successes were cuddly fleecey dressing gown from Primark (adult section)

Huge Galaxy bar with £20 note

Ds1 just turned 15. He would love a book voucher or sports shop voucher, isn’t into gaming at all, Amazon fairly generic, so wider appeal. Do you know any of his interests??

Xbox / PlayStation voucher but only if you know his console Or Argos for "stuff" tech, games, could even buy an Xbox or PS voucher with it.

Mine would like a warhammer voucher. Would have no use for a clothes or shoes voucher. Amazon would also work. Ask his parents!

For £15/20 I think money is the best option. We have a nephew this age and I wouldn’t know where to start with vouchers etc and if you get it wrong it’s sort of a wasted gift, whereas money always goes right for teens! Say if you bought him a cinema voucher, he’d need to go three times or so to spend it and it’s awkward because you’re always left with a couple of pounds you can’t spend. If you gave him cash in a card he could get a kfc and then go to the cinema with his mates and he would have the freedom of deciding how to spend it himself. At that age the freedom of choice is worth about twice the amount the money is.

Obviously slightly different if you know him well and he loves a certain game that you can get vouchers for. But if you just buy him random vouchers because 14yo boys like x you could easily get it wrong. My son would love J.D vouchers but his best friend wouldn’t really get much out of J.D and would love a Waterstones voucher. That’s what I mean when I say a voucher can be a wasted gift.

You can't get a gaming voucher if you don't know what he plays (if anything).

I think an Amazon voucher is the most flexible.

Definitely cash, I know people like to buy gifts as they're more thoughtful but unless it's something the teenager specifically asked for, cash is always the best option. Even vouchers get tricky as they need a friend with them or family and it wouldn't be enough to cover everyone's meal.