To have no idea what to buy a female relative

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For their 60th? Close relative. Doesn't like spa type treatments. I'm really struggling to find anything personal and/or useful.

I love Not On The High Street.
Loads of stuff there.

Depends on the type of lady
Towels
A nice fluffy dressing gown
Make up/face cream anythihg fancy she uses?
An experience, cinema or theatre tickets
M&S meal deal or similar
Chocolates
Perfume
Jewellery/Does she have a charm bracelet
Magazine subscription the gift that keeps on giving

Not anti aging cream!
How much do you want to spend?

Between £50 and £100 ish

I tend to resort to long silk scarves when I'm really stuck, I'd kill for a lovely Liberty's scarf.

Does she like flowers? What about some letterbox flowers for as many months as you can afford from someone like Bloom & Wild or Freddie’s Flowers.
My mum is not many years past 60 and whenever she’s asked what she’d like as a gift, this is what she always asks for,. If she buys flowers for herself she only ever buys a cheap bunch from the supermarket so the arrangements from Bloom & Wild are a real treat.

Does she have an amazon wish list? If u can look her up via her email address she might have a few things stored on her list you could buy for her.

Just had my birthday and some of the gifts i loved were jewellery, a cheese and wine hamper, a beautiful leather handbag, a purse, voucher for a local restaurant (it was a big birthday, i'm not usually so spoilt!!)

Why are you struggling? Because you don’t know her well? Because you’ve already bought her a million things? Because she’s well off and has everything she could want? Because you’re in your 20s and 60 sounds really old?

I’m mid-50s. I also have no interest in spas.

Within your budget I would like:

Books on my Amazon list.
Single malt whisky.
Contemporary theatre.
Old roses.
Tom Ford / Pat McGrath cosmetics.

Things I would not like:

Scarves.
Gift sets from anywhere, of anything, or anything at all from NOTHS or wherever.
60 individual bits of tat wrapped up.
Photograph frames.
A newspaper from my birth date.
Perfume. I choose my own and it’s well outside your budget.
Afternoon tea.
Embroidered handkerchiefs. (Only half joking. I mean any of the god-awful twee nonsense that people think 60 year old women can be fobbed off with.)

Photo book! Last ten years or her whole life? Or w fun experience like a track day or wine tasting for the two or you.

My friend got his mum a magazine subscription. She really liked it.

My mum is a bit older, but strictly in the “I don’t need more Stuff” category... I get her consumables: nice coffee, posh soap/biscuits/olive oil/type things. Or take her out for a nice meal - the gift of my time (we don’t live close by)

I like the magazine subscription idea. And books she’s interested in - nonfiction/ biographies etc.

Or an Audible or Netflix subscription?

Flowers subscription
Afternoon tea voucher
Food hamper - cheese & biscuits one sounds good
Theatre tickets - provided you know what she likes
Posh candles gift set e.g. St Eval Cornish ones

Does she have any hobbies you are aware of? My mil loves gardening so we got her new planters and the kids decorated plant pots for her and did the planting together. We also got her a gardening magazine subscription which she looks forward to receiving every month.

I love an experience / memory...... does she like any concerts, wine tasting, afternoon tea. Could stay over night somewhere. I’m not sure where you are but my sister got her mother in law afternoon tea and a tour of Buckingham palace (she knew she wanted to do that)

It depends on who she is and what she likes.

My grandmother was always impressed with where things had come from, if it was in a Harrods or Fortnum and Mason wrapper she loved it, she also had a sweet tooth so biscuits or chocolate from a 'posh shop' went down well.

My other grandmother liked scarves and as she walked to church every Sunday until she couldn't walk gloves or a warm coat got a lot of use. She would not have been impressed with posh biscuits as she could bake her own or buy them on the market.

I think you need to think about her, not about a 60 year old woman.

if she likes gardening you could get her vouchers so she can get her own choice of plant.
I'm not in that demographic but a decade or so younger and I would hate things like a scarf, food, photobook. They all sound like generic "gifts for the elderly"...
I would definitely want to choose something myself, hence the suggestion of vouchers.

Either Jo Malone ( not perfume - candles , body cream, bath stuff) or something cashmere - scarf / gloves .

Cashmere anything.

Restaurant voucher

12 bottles of plonk delivered

Magazine subscription

Peony Plant

Leather bag

Is she a keen reader? A Kindle?
Dinner and theatre trip x 2 she can take a friend of her choice
A weekend away
Hotel Chocolates
A course on her favourite hobby
Pay for her hair doing at her favourite salon?
A bottle of her favourite perfume
Woodwick candles
A Murder mystery night in a hotel
A surprise party or bbq

Dinner and theatre trip sounds expensive but travel agents often have deals 2 people for 99.00!!
A night in a haunted house was a gift one of my friend's mums presents she loved it..odd choice but very different and she was in to all that!

I always get my mum something to do, theatre (doesn't have to be expensive) or afternoon tea or a literary festival.

A kindle?
Tablet?
Something she normally wouldn't splurge on herself?