My mum is amazing. She is a full time carer for my Nan and has a tough time of it. She has been incredible to me and my siblings and I want to get her something great because it’s been a particularly rough time lately.
My siblings are happy to go in on something, because, she is hard to buy for! I think the budget could be anything from £50 - £250 depending on what it was split between us.
- she doesn’t like any kind of food or drink gifts, my sister in law has bought her things like this for birthdays and Christmas and she has never used them, without fail. Always regifted to my Nan.
- Ive bought her theatre tickets / experience tickets before - she has asked if we can not do this again. With the exception of strictly come dancing! Which annoyingly, is now over as a tour.
- I got her a flower subscription before, she said no more as it’s too much money.
- no ornaments, wall art, word art, personalised anything as she is a minimalist and doesn’t like ‘stuff’
- no books as she has a kindle (and I upgraded it at Christmas)
- no boxsets because obviously, streaming services.
- No clothes because we’ve all tried this and she is very self conscious and won’t wear them
- I thought I had cracked it and bought her courses before! Nope. She didn’t want to learn French or dog trick training.
- Too much perfume
- too many handbags
- always wears the same makeup and so is plentiful, because, all the above!
- got her wellibobs she loved for dog walking! So can’t get those again.
this sounds like she is ungrateful, she isn’t. She would just as soon have nothing and would still have a fab day and tell us she was glad we saved our money. But I Really want to get her something good.
So…. Can anyone crack this code?? I would be very very grateful ❤️