What are you getting your MIL/FIL/Dp's parents/whatever you call them....

[lucysmam]

I neeeeeeeeed inspiration! She says go pick something random from Poundland because they don't need anything but we'd like to spend a little bit more, tenner max, so I'm after some inspiration!

Do they enjoy going out? Pub vouchers for a meal or something like that could make a nice change. A couple of the farm shops and garden centres near me do a tea for two voucher that I have given as presents in the past when stuck for ideas

I've got mine-
Tickets to see Swan Lake- joint
A food hamper I'm making- joint
A nice diary- mil
A set of audiobooks- mil
Some wireless headset earphone things she said she wanted to use with the tv- mil
A mug with painted pictures of their city on- fil
An insect hotel- fil
I think I'm going to get fil a nice scarf too

Got MIL a pair of earrings and a framed photo of DC

FIL is getting posh firelighters and a mug, will prob add some posh coffee to that

Well, DH does his parents but I believe he's getting his mum a box set of some kind and his dad a, erm, don't know actually. Its probably still in the shop.

Pascha, that's pretty much us atm...getting an "erm....I don't know"

These are all lovely ideas though, maybe some sort of meal paid for or something would be nice but I don't think they'd use it. Posh coffee would be a waste, she likes Mellow Birds and he goes through so much of the stuff she buys him value stuff.

Maybe nice gloves to go with the scarf her sister got for her birthday & some sort of something for the allottment for him

I have a tiny budget. I've got them a calendar of pictures of DS (Only grandchild, still not sure that it isn't a massive vanity exercise but they seem to like them). I do this for both sets of grandparents every year. For MIL I have bought some really really nice yarn and am knitting a lacy cowl. For FIL I have blown up a lovely picture of him, DH and DS, and am looking for a nice frame. I have a pretty tiny budget, that's about £15 all in.

agenda, your gifts sound lovely and really well thought through!

I sometimes wish they were both a touch more materialistic & liked 'stuff' just because iyswim? They don't put pictures up either, I gave them a lovely framed one of our girls last year & I don't think it's seen the light of day since

Dp has taken the job off my hands, I am all done barring one thing now & a few sweets or chocolates to go in with the grown up presents

MIL is getting a tea pot for 1 set (you know the little tea pots on top of a cup) with some handcream. It was a set from M&S. No idea what Dh is getting FIL.

My mum is getting a basic top from Debenhams (the Maine ones as she likes those) and my Dad is getting pj's from Sainsburys.

My Dad has an allotment. We sometimes buy him things like a tin for seed packets or a ball of string on a nice holder. Wilkinsons have some nice gift packs of seeds at the moment like these www.wilko.com/gifts-for-him/wilko-muddy-boots-seeds-award-wining-vegetable-selection-x-8/invt/0337430

DH sorts them out. I know we're 'one happy family' etc, but when he sorts my parents, I'll do his. And if he didn't do anything, then it would be his fault.

His parents, his problem. If they do not get presents it reflects on the child they raised, not his wife..