To ask for suggestions for a 70 year old woman for Christmas

[Fedupwiththis70]

Dm is ridiculously hard to buy Christmas presents for. She has very sensitive skin so toiletries not an option. Clothing she’s very fussy. Isn’t very psychically active. Does like coffee though and food but would rather keep food to a minimum as she’s also got diabetes.

There are a lot of suggestions for you OP but I am just wondering what the responses would have been if a 70 year old buying for her daughter had titled the thread "Presents for a 40 year old woman for Christmas".

@JamieLeeCurtains thanks a lot, I'll be singing that for days now

@Paintedmaypole

There are a lot of suggestions for you OP but I am just wondering what the responses would have been if a 70 year old buying for her daughter had titled the thread "Presents for a 40 year old woman for Christmas".

I guarantee you that A Lovely Scarf would have featured in there somewhere.

Omg..I’m nearly 70 and would hate woman’s weekly

My mother is is her seventies and is up for Bobbi Brown make up and any of the latest trends. I think the person who said this is all individual has got a point.

@GooseberryTart

It really depends on the 70 year old in question, they are all different. Itchy skin is torturous and not to be trivialised I have it and I am 50 it vastly affects toiletry choices and clothing as a lot of fabrics itch. Natural fabric is so much better and easier to wear.

We got MIL now 82 a Kindle 5 years ago she is an avid reader and absolutely loves it and actually prefers it to books and its stopped her paperback hoard. Other presents that have gone down well is nice warm cardigans (but you said yours is fussy about clothes). A nice pair of good quality supportive slippers, a neutral lipstick (think about her colouring), nice hand cream, nice nail polish, nice purse, nice flowers, nice calendar with photos of the kids on, a radio, bird feeder (so she can watch the birds from her window), take her out for a nice evening meal, she wanted some dangly ear rings last year.

A small hamper with some speciality coffees and a very small amount of chocolate might go down well.

If your MIL has an amazon fire then tell her to sign up for library ebooks - it'll save her a fortune.