What are you buying your mum for Christmas

[MabelStark]

Having bought gifts for her for 20 odd years I feel like I've bought everything before... Anyone purchased their Mum a great present? Please share it with me!

Kindle Fire

MIL - necklace and scarf

Portmerion Botanic serving bowl and plate.
I saw them in a charity shop and got all excited because I thought the line had been discontinued and I'd found this amazing rare thing.
Turns out John Lewis's still do 'em. Never mind- she'll still like them.

Also this silly book of pictures of dogs underwater.

The first two Elizabeth Chadwick novels. She got engrossed in one of mine when I left her unattended by the bookshelf one Sunday while she was here for lunch.

She's developing dementia and has been hoarding, so don't want to give her too much as we (my sisters and I) are actively decluttering her home at the moment.

M&D are getting joint gifts, mainly.

A calendar of my dd
A board game
A boxed cinema voucher

Then she is getting

A book
A bottle of wine
A box of chocolates

No help sorry, I'm just looking for inspiration

Vodka.

Perfume.

It's what she's asked for.

Last year I got her National Trust membership. She has enjoyed it so much that I have renewed it for her this year.

Two illustrated books - one on British songbirds and one on garden birds.

The twelve poems for Christmas card alternative.

Some dark choc truffles and ginger biscuits from the boys.

Got a 4 gift rule

So bought = Pj's, a framed print of me and my sister, hand warmers, and a book on happiness.

Will also do her a stocking with lots of little bits inside.

I've done a calendar with pics of all her grandchildren.

Also chocs and handcream.

Joint English Heritage membership and some gloves

A wine case from Virgin wines. I know it'll get used so better than buying something for the sake

A pandora charm and a cardi that she heavily hinted she liked from good old M and S

Some ikea clips and either a big woollen wrap our done smellies. In my defence she's the only person I've not finished

I've made a basket full of her favourite smellies
Magazine subscription which has been carrying on for years!
Tickets for her and father to a local show
Turkish delight

I got mine a new digital radio that she wants which must have a cassette player! Git it with CD as well, about £40/£50. If I had waited I would rush to M&S today as they've got 30% off knitwear and she loves their cashmere

Clothes and candles.

Tickets for Swan Lake.
PJs and slippers to keep at our house (so she can keep her luggage lighter).
Oven gloves (I noticed hers were threadbare).
A lavander cushion with her catch phrase on it 'All you need is love.'

DH has bought her the Malala book and a CD of Jaquline Du Pres.

DS has bought her a set of three nail varnishes.
DD has bought her a pocket diary.

A mobile phone cover it's a last ditch attempt to persuade her to keep her phone turned on rather than turned off and wrapped up in two zip lock plastic bags in the inside pocket of her handbag

Touch screen gloves (M&S) now she's got a smart phone!

pizza stone and cutter (she's wanted one for ages).

A bobble filter bottle as she is always complaining about the taste of tap water and doesn't drink enough.

Three books she wanted

New Gransnet book

Gloves

Hand cream

Bag

Radley bag(she has hinted for months) Yankee candles and willow tree christmas bauble

I have just wrapped my Mum up the most beautiful.... cordless drill :-D

She asked for Philips screwdriver...but she has just moved and is pu5in g up furniture etc and I am really hoping it goes down well....

Also a beautiful tin of chocs and a Philips screw driver that was 89p

I have just wrapped my Mum up the most beautiful.... cordless drill :-D

She asked for Philips screwdriver...but she has just moved and is pu5in g up furniture etc and I am really hoping it goes down well....

Also a beautiful tin of chocs and a Philips screw driver that was 89p