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If you are a woman between 50-60 please give me feedback on these gifts!

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GotMooMilk · 13/12/2023 15:15

MIL is the HARDEST person ever to buy for. She doesn't really have any hobbies, doesn't like food presents (have given her a hamper of home made food and drink last year and no one has looked less impressed at anything...!) and has an incredibly minimalist house so doesn't like home gifts. She doesn't like going places she hasn't been so a restaurant/theatre voucher wouldn't be used.
Every Christmas or birthday she kills me! Anyway I have got her:

  • Fluffy slippers
  • Gel eye mask that can be kept in fridge or warmed
  • Small box of chocolates
  • Make up bag
Does this sound ok?
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BobBillby · 13/12/2023 16:45

What about a subscription thing, you can get ones for all sorts these days, from monthly flowers to cakes etc

incywincyspidery · 13/12/2023 16:46

I'm 50 and I'd love them, but then I am a very easy person to buy for and love anything home related, perfumes, toiletries, posh candles and anything fluffy!

Twiglets1 · 13/12/2023 16:48

FortunataTagnips · 13/12/2023 16:45

Ticket to Dignitas?

Lol 😂

Methren · 13/12/2023 16:49

I'm 53 and would find those gifts dull but inoffensive.
Fluffy slippers - not my style
Gel eye mask that can be kept in fridge or warmed - wouldn't use
Small box of chocolates - yes please
Make up bag - would be co-opted to carry my portable charger and cables.

She does sound very tricky to buy for. Not sure how well these suggestions fit your budget, but what about:

Heated blanket/throw for use when watching TV?
Set of fancy coffee mugs?
Oodie?
Posh toiletries - luxury soap or hand cream?

Est1990 · 13/12/2023 16:49

Haven't read all the suggestions.
Does she likes to eat out? A voucher at her favorite restaurant?

A bit different but still useful.

Twiglets1 · 13/12/2023 16:50

Est1990 · 13/12/2023 16:49

Haven't read all the suggestions.
Does she likes to eat out? A voucher at her favorite restaurant?

A bit different but still useful.

She doesn't like to eat out

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GotMooMilk · 13/12/2023 16:50

Thank you all 💕 I’m going to take back the slippers and use the cash to buy a nice bottle of red I think.

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Mrsjayy · 13/12/2023 16:52

GotMooMilk · 13/12/2023 16:50

Thank you all 💕 I’m going to take back the slippers and use the cash to buy a nice bottle of red I think.

yes do that.sounds lovely

eardefender · 13/12/2023 16:53

that sounds really hard OP. what about a charity gift like a donation to a charity she supports. Or as others have suggested a voucher. She sounds like blimmin hard work.

FormerlySpeckledyHen · 13/12/2023 16:53

No to all of it unless the make up bag was exactly to my taste - a Liberty print.
It would all go to the foodbank and charity shop.

I personally would like a JL voucher or an Amazon voucher to buy books/audiobooks.

Daisybuttercup12345 · 13/12/2023 16:53

Book voucher and big box of chocolates.

Wherethewildthymeblows · 13/12/2023 16:53

I'm about her age (but don't recognise myself in your descriptions thank god! Eg, I have loads of hobbies).
I am very particular so slippers wouldn't be good for me as I like a certain sort.
Eye mask? I wouldn't know what to do with one but it might be OK.
Chocolates - yes please!
Make up bag - useless for me.

Do you know if she likes a certain scent that you could buy her in soap or bubble bath or shower gel or even drawer liners? I'm quite old fashioned but I prefer quality bars of soap over hand/body wash, and something like scented drawer liners are a little luxury most people don't buy for themselves.

Puffalicious · 13/12/2023 16:53

Jeez, she sounds incredibly boring! I'm 52, still feel 32 inside & like to think I'm stylish with a modern outlook. My sister is 56 & never in! How different we can all be.

I'd not really like any of those gifts, not that I would say.

Cashmere socks been suggested? Wine subscription? Push her a bit & a voucher for a local pottery/ crafting experience?

Kdtym10 · 13/12/2023 16:53

A vibrator?

NeverDropYourMooncup · 13/12/2023 16:55

I'd quite like the gel eyemask twenty years ago when I was getting hormonal migraines.

Slippers aren't my thing, I don't eat chocolate and I have enough makeup bags to hold my makeup in.

I'd be more of your limited edition Godzilla model, hoodie with Mickey's Gym, Philadelphia decal, socks and another woolly hat with a torch on it for trail running and an external SSD for my laptop type of 50 year old than Nanna slippers and some Ferrero Roche. As many 50-60 year olds are, both male and female, because we aren't 80.

Tupperwarelid · 13/12/2023 16:55

I’m 53 and would only want the chocolates. I’d rather have a bottle of Prosecco and a Waterstones voucher or John Lewis voucher.

MrsFloof · 13/12/2023 16:56

I would like the slippers and the small box of chocs. Don't use eye masks or make up bags or drink red wine. Though at least wine someone will drink. It will vary by person, I prefer either a voucher or things similar to what I have already as I know what I like. For me like some nice mini bath foams or hand creams but not Bayliss and Harding.

Tupperwarelid · 13/12/2023 16:57

SpeculatingRooks · 13/12/2023 16:38

I would adopt her a donkey 🫏

I would love this or for someone to adopt me a Shetland pony. Nearest I’ll get to owning one!

ilovebrie8 · 13/12/2023 16:59

Ooh interesting thread I’d suggest Hotel chocolat for some chocs, some turtle doves gloves then either a John Lewis or Waterstones voucher.

5128gap · 13/12/2023 16:59

I will say OP, if the attitude towards MiL on MN is reflective of real life, the very best present your MiL has is a DiL who actually cares to please her at Christmas. You sound like a lovely DiL. I have a lovely one too, and she could buy me a 10 foot inflatable Elvis wearing flashing reindeer antlers that danced the macarana, and I'd love her for it.

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 13/12/2023 16:59

I wouldn’t want any of that- just turned 60.

Stopped make up in mid 50’s
Never looked at or even thought about gel eye mask. Definitely wouldn’t wear it.
Fluffy slippers, only if by Celtic and Co
Chocolates or food no. Too much at Christmas as it is.

JL voucher yes
indoor plant
flowers
book vouchers or Amazon if she has a kindle

Anselma · 13/12/2023 17:00

My mother hates getting gifts, she says if she wants something she'd prefer to buy it herself and get exactly what she needs rather than someone else's choice. Also she had a massive declutter last year and house is very minimalist now.
So we give her Amazon vouchers.

Denimdenimdenim · 13/12/2023 17:00

Can you not get her a voucher towards an experience? Like an afternoon tea somewhere. Or entry to a show etc.

Usually my go to if I have no idea what to get someone.

My MIL is the same age and DH and I paid for her to have afternoon tea on the bluebell railway. She could take whoever she liked and she loved it.

Sgtmajormummy · 13/12/2023 17:01

I’ve just turned 56 (no grandchildren) and I would love:
some nice reusable Christmas decor like a nativity scene, a non-kitch snow globe or an advent candlestick with 4 candles.
any liquid for my Lampe Berger or some good essential oils.
a taster set of coffee or teabags, pasta (Facebook told me Giovanni Rana has made one for delivery this year), herbs and spices…
Nancy Birtwhistle’s Green Living book of hacks.

Kdtym10 · 13/12/2023 17:01

NeverDropYourMooncup · 13/12/2023 16:55

I'd quite like the gel eyemask twenty years ago when I was getting hormonal migraines.

Slippers aren't my thing, I don't eat chocolate and I have enough makeup bags to hold my makeup in.

I'd be more of your limited edition Godzilla model, hoodie with Mickey's Gym, Philadelphia decal, socks and another woolly hat with a torch on it for trail running and an external SSD for my laptop type of 50 year old than Nanna slippers and some Ferrero Roche. As many 50-60 year olds are, both male and female, because we aren't 80.

Oh thank god for that, I’m about 2 years off 50 and I was panicking that something happened when you turned 50 and I’d suddenly age 30 years.