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What have you bought your Mum?

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cazza2878 · 02/12/2012 20:38

Need some inspiration please! Its my last present left to get.

Want to get something lovely - budget £60. Not toiletries as she only uses clinique and got her set of that last year. Thanks.

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ImpYCelynAndTheIvy · 02/12/2012 20:43

Make up? I'm getting my mum a Chanel lippy (she loves Chanel).

Chubfuddler · 02/12/2012 20:45

No idea. I was going to get her a wireless keyboard for her iPad but she's got one now. Mine hates stuff for the house as gifts, never uses posh toiletries (bought her jo Malone perfume last year which she had gone on and on about loving the scent of - she's barely used it. "Saving it" she says. What's the point in that?)

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cazza2878 · 02/12/2012 20:45

Thanks but she doesn't wear loads and tends to stick to same products she's used for years!

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MonsterBookOfTinsel · 02/12/2012 20:46

My mums asked for underwear.
She has a new man.
I have tried to talk her out of it but no.
Oh dear.

If I had a choice I would make her a hamper with a book, book light, book mark, chocolates and wine!

dementedma · 02/12/2012 20:48

A weekend away at the dark skies park in Dumfries and Galloway to go star gazing. Her presents are all clues to the main thing so she has a sachet of hot chocolate, a torch, a pair of pjs,a woolly hat and gloves, a starry belt ( Orion's belt) and a copy of the poem "I stood and stared".

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cazza2878 · 02/12/2012 20:49

Eeek at underwear! Good luck with that!

She has a kindle. Have bought her a breadmaker before. Clothes are hard as she's very petite (sometimes buys kids clothes!).

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MonsterBookOfTinsel · 02/12/2012 20:51

Thanks :o

YuleBritannia · 02/12/2012 20:51

My mother was very petite and I found her a lovely jacket at TK Maxx once. She loved it. She liked M&S too. A present she liked more though was a mohair cardigan which she loved because it was so warm. but I'd knitted it myself so you won't have time for that

Moln · 02/12/2012 20:52

a passport holder and a luggage label (they are some make I can't recall right at this moment as I've had them since the summer

she travels a reasonabe amount (mainly because i live in a different country to her!)

Rattitude · 02/12/2012 20:53

My Mum is getting two DVDs (Borgen seasons 1 and 2), a CD, an expensive jigsaw puzzle, a clock and a kitchen timer.

What about getting yours a massage or facial?

Salamanger · 02/12/2012 21:00

A dwarf cherry tree for her patio.

Startail · 02/12/2012 21:03

Midsummer murders box set, as requested.

NorbertDentressangle · 02/12/2012 21:03

Gardening stuff which she asked for and a patchwork kit.

Squitch · 02/12/2012 21:06

I have a nightmare buying for my mum, she was awkward to buy for anyway but she has dementia now and i was determined I wasnt buying her more pyjamas (has been xmas and birthday present for at least the last 3 years) - so I've bought her a lovely patchwork quilted bedspread.

VoldemortsNipple · 02/12/2012 21:11

Some sheepskin slippers (maybe ugg ones) a bread maker, a homemade food and drink hamper and an orla Kiely scalf.

GinGirl · 02/12/2012 21:11

Vouchers for a holiday cottage company (joint present to my Dad as well) to add to some my sister gave them over the summer.
She is one of the hardest people on the planet to buy for!

41notTrendy · 02/12/2012 21:17

My mum is a nightmare to buy for. No household stuff. No scarves. Bought Clinique last year. I am leaning towards jewellery but she has quite eclectic tastes. I've got a budget of about £30. Aaaarrrggghhh. And she always gets me wonderful gifts.

Thehoardernextdoor · 02/12/2012 21:17

Tickets for us both to see Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty in April (and I've got time to save up to buy her dinner on the night) Smile

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cazza2878 · 02/12/2012 21:27

Thinking maybe a nice kindle case - seen some lovely ones on boden with 25% off so now 14.25. Still stumped for other £45 though!

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RibenaFiend · 02/12/2012 21:35

I skipped to JL today and purchased my DM a new digital radio. I gave her one a good few years back (5 years ?) and she used it every day -she uses it for company as she's on her own Confused ...until it blew up a few months back Shock

God love her my DM is easy to buy for this year. Usually she's a nightmare.

My DB on the other hand... Ugh!!! T total, slightly less than sociable, too much "stuff" in his life already and far too large to purchase an "experience" for Confused

CiderwithBuda · 02/12/2012 21:35

My mum has dementia (Hi Squitch - its horrible isn't it?) and is in a nursing home. I think if i give her Pjs she may well strangle me with them as everyone buys her PJs at the moment. And they are not ones she would buy herself.

I am doing a hamper of goodies. She has a really sweet tooth and is chocolate mad. So far I have a nice box of M&S chocolate biscuits, some chocolate truffles, a couple of individual xmas cakes, a couple of choc marzipan bars and some Pringles (she asked my dad for some a while ago and told him off when he only bought small tins!). Also planning some nice shortbread biscuits.

HarlettHoHoHoScara · 02/12/2012 21:44

I've got mine this handbag

Now I'm having a wibble about it.

MegBusset · 02/12/2012 21:47

Mine is getting:

Molton Brown gift set
Nice hot chocolate gift set from John Lewis
V&A notebook
Ikea candle

MegBusset · 02/12/2012 21:48

And for her birthday (last month) I got her tickets for the V&A David Bowie exhibition next year.

ChunkyMonkeyMother · 02/12/2012 21:49

I'm buying my parents a new set of house phones because theirs are broken and I'm sick of calling them and having to repeat myself a million times because they can't hear me!

Plus my mum has asked for the new Plan B album/DVD - and she has been admiring the Clinique chubby sticks very loudly recently - oh and a jagarmeister gift set - I thought she was bad but man oh man I'm glad she hasn't asked for new nickers for her fancy man!