Present to represent every year alive

[Bluesprinkles12]

Hi all!

Hoping for your help. It’s my best friends 30th this year and hoping to do 30 presents each representing every year of her life. So either something personal, something that represents that age or an event that year.

So far this is what I’ve got (very early planing days) and looking for some more ideas!

1994- the year you were born card
1-95 milk bottle with a drink in it
2-96
3-97
4-98
5-99 Younger sibiling was born- picture of her brother

6-00
7-01
8-02
9-03
10-04
11-05
12-06
13-07
14- 08 First Marvel movie come out- get the DVD
15-09
16-10 paracetamol that you’re going to need tomorrow
17-11 Year you’ve learned to drive
18-12 drinking age/lottery
19-13 First time
20-14 Ice bucket challenge
21-15
22-16
23-17 The year you’ve met me- art of the both of us
24-18
25-19 year we went Italy- Italian desert, pizza making kit?
26-20 COVID- something covid themed
27-21
28-22 Year she met her other half
29-23
30-24

😂

The lottery only became 18 in 2021 so she could have bought a lottery ticket at she 16.

This is the solution if you're really keen on the whole idea.

I might be a horrible person, with no heart, but a jar of scraps or a scrapbook also sound crap. I’d be polite about it, but would never look at it again.

I don’t understand this in so many levels. Ice bucket challenge? Covid?? Paracetamol? A dvd?
what is she supposed to do with it all? Non of it is beautiful or useful. Well, paracetamol, condoms, tampons and knickers are useful but not something you gift. Try starting a thread “Aibu to think my friend giving me a photo of my own brother and some condoms is a bit weird? I got her earrings”. and see what happens.
Get her a photo book, a 30yo bottle of scotch, a jar with 30 Lindt chocolates, a bracelet with 30 pearls, 30 books you actually know she will like, 30 scratch cards, 30 English pounds, 30 pounds of cheese…get almost anything but a bottle of milk and a dvd from 2008.

They were both mine! I agree odd but I was desperately trying to come up with something useful, not tat!

Pants and Sapporo are useful! Then tried to think what they could connect with. If you follow the logic it's less weird.

I've actually thought of a better idea. Donate the pants and sanpro to a food bank or women's aid.

Symbolic gift. Not actual gift and not tat!

It’s a kind thought OP but tbh it comes across as a little intense. I adore my BFF and we do spoil each other on our birthdays & Christmas, but I think this level of intensity comes across as a bit too much.

A photo book is a great idea and much more reasonable. Please don't give her a load of tat.

Sparkler for year 2000

Most of it will go straight in the bin!

She will be desperately hoping you are no longer friends by the time 40 rolls around 😅

This has to be a joke for a boring Thursday. These '30/40/50 presents' threads are always entertaining, but this brings a whole new level to this hell.

You've only known her for less than a third of her life, but you expect to be able to buy representative gifts for all of them?

I often see people on the Family Lowdown group on Facebook say things like "My mum's about to turn 60. Her name's Shirley and I want to buy her 60 things beginning with S".
I just think, "Noooo!!!". No 60 year old wants to receive 60 gifts. It's just so wasteful and I don't believe anyone wants loads of random tat.
My 14 year old daughter loves presents, but I think even she'd hate to get 30 gifts.