What to get for nanny as a leaving present? Need inspiration please

[MrsBigD]

Our nanny will be leaving us shortly and has been with us for about 18 months. Reasons for leaving are change in circumstances, and some minor issues but nothing warranting just to let her go with a handshake and a cool goodbye

She's a lovely young woman and I have no idea what to get her as a leaving present. Am going to do a lovely picture of dd and ds and put it in a little frame/card for her but think I should do something else.

Insprirations please!

Thanks

depending on how much you want to spend i would go for a pampering thing. ( photo obviously is the main personal one) but i have had 2 families who done this for me and it meant alot to me. one was a very well off lady and a month or so before i left she had her hair done at an expensive salon and i said how nice it was. so she paid for me to have my hair done and also use the salons pool, spray tan and linch. was a lovely day and really personal as i commented on how nice/ refreshed she looked.

on the slighty cheaper scale another family got me a £20 voucher for the local salon for me to spend how i wish. ( choose a massage) hth.

thanks for the input as for the pampering session... nanny actually lives about 1h away so no idea about her local 'salons'... might have to investigate

anybody else with any present wisdom?

diamond earrings? wow... sort of a bit above my wallet LOL

Another traditional one is a coffee mug decorated by the children (at one of those pottery cafe places) or if they're too little for doing own decorating, with their hand- or footprints on.

However, the nanny who's just left us left because she was moving away into the country, so in need of extra cash - so main leaving present was that.

When I left my last job I was given a diamond and sapphire braclet and a chunk of cash (about £100 if I remember) but I had been with them for 6 years and still have there daugther occasionally now.I was also paid v. badly for the whole 6 years!

arwen... sounds like the poor pay was worth it in the end

We gave our lovely nanny who left last week (sob) one and a half weeks wages,a large canvas print of a gorgeous photo of her and dd,a leaving party and some funny/jokey presents for her new life as a student nurse.....

My second boss gave me a topaz and diamond ring (£250) had been with them for 2 and a half years and their father was a widower when I started, he remarried 2 months after I left. I still wear it all the time now and he has paid for the band to be repaired twice! This was over 15 years ago. Third boss brought me a duffle coat (I never wore a coat so she brought me one, was very nice but I never wore a coat because I don't like coats, not because I couldn't afford one! Think my dad had it in the end!) 4th bosses (nanny share) clubbed together to buy me very nice, very expensive camera as I took soooo many pictures of the children (still do!) 5th boss brought me a lovely gold bracelet, which I still wear all the time, reminds me of the boys constantly. Still working for 6th boss, but they are very generous at birthday's and christmas and not planning on leaving soon!

I personally love the idea of a nice piece of jewelrey, it doesn't have to be expensive and it is a constant reminder of the children. I still see all of my previous charges, even though the eldest are 21 this year and my first charge has just had his own son. (God I feel old!!!!)

topaz diamong ring!?! bloody 'ell! If I had that much money spare ... LOL

Not sure how old your kids are, but get them to paint a picture of her/for her and frame it - she'll probably really treasure that cos its somehting that they've done just for her. i used to work with pre-school kiddies and when they did something like that i was really touched by it...