Mother's Day planning ahead - what to buy for the mother with everything who likes nothing

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Mother's Day four weeks today!

I hate this day, but it's not about me.

What do you buy the mother who is impossible to buy for? She hates chocolate, alcohol, won't do anything other than what she's done for years (so a day out won't work). I'm really really stuck!

Any ideas?

Flowers

I’d also go with flowers.

Yep, flowers.

Voucher - M&S/Sains
She can at least spend it on food then!

...what has she done for years, btw?

Don't buy anything but cook her a nice lunch?
My mother is no longer alive and what she'd have liked most was time together.

Flowers/a good book/some nice tea or coffee and a bone china mug/white company something like a candle or cashmere bed socks/silver picture frame with grandchildren in?
Good luck!

If she only wants to do what she normally does, why don't you just give her that? I once made someone a hamper of all of their favourite products, as I knew it was stuff they would use anyway!!!

Failing that, a M & S or John Lewis voucher.

Good news, Amazon sell gifts of nothing ranging from boxes to bags or blister plastic containers of nothing.
Just put nothing in the search field and choose the appropriate nothing.
Alternatively simply do as Indio and ignore all Hallmark holidays.

My work here is done

Magazine subscription, afternoon tea out together? A nice plant arrangement as an alternative to flowers?

If she's ungrateful just don't bother?

Does she like music/concerts etc? Ticketmaster or Cinema Voucher? I’m getting mine tickets to see the Alfie Boe and Michael Ball concert, which is also being broadcast at the cinema. Less tat, and makes for happy memories!

When did Mothers Day become more than flowers and taking your mum out to lunch?

A nice plant, a lovely meal or two from Cook so she can 'eat out at home' - big hit with my parents.

A card.

Do absolutely nothing. It’s just another day.

Card and flowers, if she doesn't like them at least you gave her the traditional mother's Day stuff. I'd be grateful you'd remembered and bothered to get anything.

Could you go round to her house and cook lunch for you both. And then spend the afternoon looking through old photo albums and hearing all the family stories?

Otherwise a flower arrangement or a plant for the garden (some garden centres will deliver and plant)

I was given The Book of Everyone a few years ago and absolutely loved it. It's all personalized and I shed a few happy tears when I read it.

Have a look here:thebookofeveryone.com/uk/shop/product/mother

Maybe just lunch or tea out. I think just spending time together is what is important not how much you spend. I know she is not keen on a day out but being together would make it special, that’s if you actually get on!

Thanks for replying everyone, some good ideas.

I always sent mine flowers or a basket of growing plants from serenata , sandy she's assed way now but she always loved them xx and so easy once you've put the address in it's saved for next time!