So. Really good presents for men that are NOT...

[monkeymamma]

Hip flasks (why do magazines think men want endless hip flasks?)
Books about gin (look, gin is all very well, but who wants to READ about it?!!)
Scarves, gloves, hats (as I've done these items many times over)
Toiletry sets they won't use
Novelty games, puzzles etc.

I have some very lovely men in my life (BILs, boyfriends of much-loved nieces) and I don't want to burden them with stuff they don't need or want, but I don't know them well enough to say, choose a book for them.

What presents in the £15-20 range can you get for men that are genuinely useful and not gimmicky or purely decorative (as I don't know many men who genuinely want decorative stuff...)?

All ideas received with interest and thanks!

For DF I’ve got posh gin/ a stand which has multiple arms coming off it ending in crocodile clips for doing fiddly indeterminate DIY stuff/ dressing gown ( which is what he asked for- easier with him to get him to send a list)
For DH- have an agreement not to spend very much on each other- t shirt/ heavy duty gardening gloves/ lighter mechanic gloves/ a book . He is into racing drones at the moment but he buys all that stuff himself .

So dh has now got
Tile
Dot
Pyjamas
Penguin socks
Ferraro Rocher
Collapsible bits & bobs travel tray for putting his things in when away for work.

Thanks for some great ideas, especially the wooden nose & wallet ninja.

1 I will always remember I think it got deleted I can't find it. But her brother had taken in a nephew. Not long before the OP's child had a birthday and received a Lego set of brother worth about £50. So when a short time later it was the child he had taken in as his own birthday. They got him a DS all the other children in the house had a DS he liked playing on them they wanted him to have his own.

So OP's DC starts winging saying that's not fair. OP thought the child should have had the same amount spent on him. Even though he was living with them full time. They threw in that he had also had a bike bought for him when he went to live with them. The family go on bike rides so of course they didn't want him to be the only family member without a bike. The OP couldn't see that they were wrong and that it was a gift to make him feel equal to the other children in the house.

I think you've put this in the wrong place and it's a zombie thread.

Amazon gift card, autobiographical book such as Secret Diary of a CEO, Clarins/Clinique face wash/shave balm, ticket to a comedy show, iPhone travel battery/new phone case/iTunes giftcard, a year's magazine subscription, ie, men's health/GQ, everyman cinema gift card, cufflinks/tie pin

No man, or person, I know would want any of those. Maybe the cinema one at a push.

I'm pretty lucky the men in my life are nerds lol so gifts are like:

*figures or funko pops
*dvd or cd
*vouchers for gaming like ps4 or steam
*tshirts
*snack and beer hampers
*tools stuff
*one year i bought a shelf for his figures and he was well chuffed lol.
*trainers
*winter kit for the car like de-icer etc.
*autographs and signed items
*photo of him and the kids
*cinema voucher
*tickets to a gig/comedy night

Massage
cheese subscription
trainers
good ear pods
knife sharpener
BBQ wood various flavours
books
massage gun
nice kitchen knives
Grow your own mushrooms / chillies etc
Sour dough making kit
Cool tshirt
A vinyl record/ turntable
Magazine sub - e.g The Week
a really expensive electric toothbrush
slippers
hat / gloves
Hoodie