Ideas for gift after loss

[Teaplease29]

Hi everyone,

My lovely partner lost his lovely dad this week. I wanted to get him something as a token of rememberance but everything I've searched feels tacky.

I was thinking a nice memory box that he could put some of his dad's trinkets, photos etc in but can't seem to find a nice one.

Any ideas very welcome!

I'm sorry to hear of your and your partner's loss . You sound a really caring partner and it's a lovely idea to want to give him a gift, but I wonder if it might be nicer to more immediately do something practical in the immediate days after and think of more of an 'object'/keepsake later on? When my DDad died last year I'm not sure how I'd have felt about being given a physical 'present' but my partner took me away for a long weekend a few weeks after the funeral (just camping in the UK, nothing flash) which was really thoughtful and appreciated, so nice to get away and relax after the stress of the funeral etc.

Later on, you might be able to do something a bit more meaningful as a keepsake, things friends have done after a bereavement include 'up-cycling' clothing of the loved one like shirts or ties into blankets or quilts (crafters or etsy can do this for you), recasting old jewellery like chains, cufflinks or wedding rings into a new signet ring or similar, re-framing and mounting photos or pictures from the house, or making a photo album or photo book from pictures? Bit specific but one friend had a load of old football programmes that her Dad had hoarded forever made into a sort of collage display that was mounted and framed for his grandson which is a lovely thing to have.

It is really nice to have things that belonged to the person you've lost made into something lovely and new to be kept forever rather than being binned. But all of this will take a while to sort and you'll need to wait until you know what's happening with his possessions?

A good friend of my DH died who was an artist. We own some original paintings of his, but over the years he also sent us many postcards of his art work, so I rummaged around in every drawer in the house and found as many as I could and had them framed. It hangs on the staircase so DH sees it every day

I agree with Maxelly
I'd wait.
Sorry for your loss.
Just being there for him in these early days will be the biggest gift you can give.

If you want a lovely memory box I got one in homesense tkmax spinoff.It was inexpensive.Navy blue with gold stars.My df doesn't have a grave so I used to collect bits to put in there.
Alternatively a nice picture frame for a favorite photograph.