What are you getting your mum for Christmas?

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If you are getting a gift for your mum this year, what are you getting her?

I'm a mum in my 50's and I've asked my grown up children for cash.

Oh and I always send her flowers a few days before Christmas as she doesn’t ever buy some for herself but she loves flowers 🌷

Got her a personalised calendar, her fave Yankee candle which she could never find but has since found and brought 4 🤦🏼‍♀️ A pandora charm 😊

Eye shadow palette
Travel mug
Afternoon tea voucher

Hairdresser voucher, Tisserand bath soak, different pairs of coloured tights online which she has been talking of wanting.

Joint present for parents- gramophone to play their old records. Plus hand cream, perfume, travel DVD and crossword book.

Voucher for afternoon tea at a lovely posh place my mum likes, also got one for my sister so they can go together, and hopefully let me join them too!!

A phone - one of those Dora old lady flip phones with the big buttons - and some credit.
A photo calendar, bag from ds2's school with faces drawn on it, probably a little goodie bag with a book and other nice bits and pieces in it (but haven't done that yet) and a framed photo of all her grandchildren.

A pedometer (her request) and a garden sculpture of three birds to go on her wall.

She has asked for an opal ring from me and my brother but she's had a shit year and she is currently living with us so I got her a stocking so she has stuff to open with us in the morning. I got her chocolates, a cheap parfume (she doesn't wear many as she has allergies but this kind seems OK), lounge trousers and jumper, gloves, socks, slipper socks and a packet of frys peppermint creams because she was saying you can't get them now, but I found them. Just lots of little things I know she will use.

She asked for M and S vouchers.

I got a bird box camera for my parents between them and a posh keyring with "Best grandma" and the DC's names on.

MIL has asked for a new hand blender.

I pay for her subscription to Woman's Weekly (she's 82 but she's been reading it since her 20's), a new top, a tea towel designed by ds (same design as Christmas cards done via school) and some Christmas flowers if I ever get round to ordering them

Just realised I am probably similar age to a lot of your Mums. (My previous post related to my Mum in her 80s) I would really appreciate a voucher for a facial or a massage; afternoon tea or anything food related! Nice bottle of gin, Prosecco or wine; plants/plant pots; interesting serving platters (I like entertaining); theatre/concert tickets; exotic food hampers; photos of my family; time with my family e.g. Homemade voucher for family day out when the weather's better etc)

And yes I know some people my age reading this wouldn't like my suggestions but you have to trust that the OP/ others looking for ideas would know their Mums well enough to know of they'd like any of the suggestions or simply ignore (still smarting from another thread!)

A Lord of the Rings art calendar, kid studio photos, and a Buddy Christ figure (from the movie Dogma). Well actually the last one is for my dad...

Apparently, a jar of rhubarb and ginger jam.

another one doing the neom diffuser pod and oils

The book she wanted

Thanks for the silk pillowcase idea-my parents live abroad and get super hot in the summer so this is a very good idea!

Getting mum a suitcase and kindle credit both on the wanted list.

Radley bag nomantion charm and some angel perfume

A wooden nativity

Normal cream, overnight hand cream

A nuts selection box (she is sugar free)

Tickets to the panto at the palladium

An amarllys bulb in pot
A jigsaw
Set of Dr Hauskka stuff for mature skin

A personalised chilly bottle

National trust membership for the year - she’s just been diagnosed with dementia but loves visiting stately homes so we wanted to build more memories with her while she’s able to get out and about