What have you bought for your Gran?

[EasyCompadre]

I'm completely out of ideas for presents to buy for my Gran for Christmas, she's 81 years old, doesn't go out very much, is almost deaf and hates wearing hearing aids (meaning CDs etc are no good!) and she has 9 children & 30+ grandchildren/great grandchildren, meaning there is very little she hasn't been bought over the years. She has a kindle, but I know of at least 2 other family members who have bought her vouchers so she can buy books, she has a little dog who is her whole world, and she (gran, not dog) loves the colour purple.

So tell me what you have bought for your gran, either this year or in previous years, that is a little bit different and my lovely gran may like.

[QuintessentialShadows]

My mum is 79. I have bought her a very nice "cashmillion" (lol!!) jumper from M&S, and some clothes for her baby doll. It is great, I can always buy a new baby outfit in size 6 months, and she will be delighted. Not sure I can do this now, as apparently she cant work out how to put trousers on him anymore, and keep sticking them on his head so the poor doll looks like a rabbi!

[QuintessentialShadows]

RABBIT, not rabbi.

[zipzap]

My favourite gran adored Chanel no 5 perfume - so usually mum would get her the perfume, and dsis and I would sort out soap/shower gel/talc between us. Very simple, same every year and she loved it, all the way through until she died at 97.

Oh and a year or so before she died, she had moved from where she lived to a home near mum, a couple of hundred miles so no local friends. I had been to one of those Xmas shopping evenings in a big department store and you got a free bear for every £100 you spent so I had a couple (it was a great I've to buy work clothes as everything was reduced and everyone was looking at presents or party wear!). I gave her a bear as well and she really took to it, maybe something like that?

[IHeartKingThistle]

My grandma is 91. She doesn't want anything. I have bought some pink rose battery fairy lights and I am going to kidnap her zimmer frame and pimp it.

[FelineExtraStrongMincePie]

Indoor crocuses. My brother has bagsied the Countryfile calendar, which she loves.

[Floralnomad]

I don't have any grans but our mums are in their 70s and 80s and my son has got DHs mum a Clinique soap and for my mum a chanel No5 soap .

[umiaisha]

Mine is 87, but very young for her age!

We have got her some Molton Brown goodies (handwash,lotion, shower gel and hand cream) and Cath Kidston teatowels.

[umiaisha]

I flatter her - actually she is 89..

[BlueChampagne]

Depending on budget, how about a digital photo frame?

[RedlipsAndSlippers]

Yes Easy there are loads available.
www.amazon.co.uk/Dear-Grandma-Journal-Lifetime-Journals/dp/1907048022/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1387458684&sr=8-12&keywords=life%20story%20journal&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21
That's one on amazon, there are some prettier ones about if you have some time to look though :)