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Help me with a gift for DSs GF

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LarkaSwyft · 30/11/2023 18:12

My DS has a relatively new GF, they started dating in August but it's got quite intense quite fast. She won't be spending Christmas with us as she is going to her family in Canada. However my parents have organised a bit of a gift exchange and lunch out the Sunday before as they also are going away for Christmas. My parents, my brother and his kids and my husband and I and our two sons will be there.
DS has asked if he can bring his girlfriend and we've all said yes but now myself, my sister in law and my mum are all struggling to know what to get.

My mum and sister in law have set budget at £50, I've set mine closer to £100.
She is 19, studies fashion management and marketing. DS says she's a bit of a minimalist doesn't like being overwhelmed by choice. She is also very well off, so she wants for nothing. Apparently she loves sustainability and hates waste and doesn't really drink at home or eat much chocolate etc.!!

I'm thinking she's impossible to buy for !!
My son is getting her tickets to see a show in Brussels in march, plus some things he knows she wants to unwrap. He's said he has used all his ideas and she wont care if we don't get her anything.
My mum and sister in law are saying they will get her something and can't just not get anything. I feel the same.
We try to avoid vouchers and money (especially as money is no object to her I think £50 in a card would mean very little to her).
I'm totally lost on what to get and what to suggest to my family to get her. She's a lovely girl and I want her to feel welcome in the family.

Any ideas for a 19 year old sustainable fashion advocate who has everything and wants for nothing?

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Fraaahnces · 01/12/2023 04:23

Space NK voucher or one of these for the trip

Help me with a gift for DSs GF
LarkaSwyft · 01/12/2023 11:34

Just wondering -
One expensive present or a couple of smaller gifts what's better?
Im conscious that our older DSs girlfriend will
have 3 things from us and would like to keep it equal, but I think she'd probably appreciate the one expensive gift more. She will also be trading gifts with DS I think at the day where as I don't think my older DS and his girlfriend are so she'd still have plenty to open that way?

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MrsWhites · 01/12/2023 11:53

Skims PJ’s - they are about £80 and very much fit the well off young adult market!

Stevie77 · 01/12/2023 12:11

A gift voucher for Face Gym? Something from a funky jewellery brand like Astrid & Myiu? Something from Ganni? All with an exchange note.

Possimpible · 01/12/2023 12:17

One expensive present OP!! She has money, she's environmentally conscious, she's an adult - she doesn't want you buying shite just so she has more parcels

Stevie77 · 01/12/2023 12:31

Now I've RTFT then definitely steer clear from cosmetics, but the PP that suggested a body care item/s that match the two perfumes your son said she uses fits the bill.

OnaKitchenRoll · 01/12/2023 12:41

One expensive present definitely

uncomfortablydumb53 · 01/12/2023 13:00

My DS2 has a new GF this year and I asked him to take a look at her toiletries and make up bag!
From that I bought her Clinique moisturiser( on Black Friday!)
Could you ask him to do something similar?

uncomfortablydumb53 · 01/12/2023 13:04

Crikey, I thought the Clinique was expensive!
One nice gift if she's eco conscious

Pippu · 01/12/2023 13:13

I have bought posh pyjamas for both DS's GFs. Would that be neutral enough?

BeaLola · 01/12/2023 21:06

What about a Chanel make up mirror ? They do the standard black compacts and slightly more for the limited online colour range ?

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