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Christmas

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What are we getting our dads?

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ThisHouseWillBeTheDeathOfMe · 14/12/2023 22:03

I'm a bit stuck for ideas.

So far, he has a work bench platform thingy, jigsaw (every year), some gloves and a board game. Emma Bridgewater "our grandad" mug from kids.

I'm always so uninspired. He likes pool and golf, and I must have got him every possible thing to do with those hobbies over the years.

He's very wealthy, never blooming wants anything anyway, and when he occasionally does, buys it himself. He's got everything for the garage and garden. Not interested in vouchers or experience type gifts.

I've exhausted the cheese/wine/charcuterie/port options the last few years too. Can't even get glasses/decanters to go with these things because he's got a games room with a huge bar and every glass and trinket stocked in it.

He's impossible. Please inspire me!

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00100001 · 14/12/2023 22:05

Get him something to do rather than something to have.

Has he ever had something like a golf swing analysis? Tickets to a pool competition etc?

Wishingonaplane · 14/12/2023 22:06

A voucher for his favourite local restaurant

Ilikegherkins · 14/12/2023 22:09

We are taking my father in law out on a road trip for the day. I've made a 'voucher for a day out' for him to open on Christmas Day with details of the trip. He's always the driver so taking both parents round a few picturesque villages with short walks / tea/ lunch booked along the way. No physical present but a full day together without him driving and we know he likes the area we are visiting.

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ThisHouseWillBeTheDeathOfMe · 14/12/2023 22:10

He plays in pool competitions, and he doesn't do vouchers.

I'll have a look at the golf swing analysis thing, but he's chairman of the local golf club and friends with all the pros there so potentially they've got something like that there.

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TheCountIsPale · 14/12/2023 22:13

If my wonderful dad was still alive, knowing what I know now he’s gone (how much I love him and miss him!), I may write him a letter telling him about a memory I had of a trip/holiday/event that happened during my childhood with him and that meant a lot - e.g. the time we went fishing/go karting etc.

SkaneTos · 14/12/2023 22:14

I am giving both my parents wall calendars with their interests - lighthouses for my father, the royal family for my mother.

I am also giving them both a day trip to the city where we used to live when I was little - we will travel around in the city by bus, visit our old block and our old building, buy cheese in the cheese store where they used to shop, eat dinner, etc. This trip will happen in the spring.

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ThisHouseWillBeTheDeathOfMe · 14/12/2023 22:45

A wall calendar is a good idea...DM has hers, I wonder if he'd like one of his own.

Do you think it's problematic to have two, incase they aren't checking each others/writing appointments in two different places?

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bloodyeffinnora · 14/12/2023 22:54

my dad has asked for a book: ronnie osullivan unbreakable, not sure what else to get him either,

ifellintoarabbithole · 14/12/2023 23:01

Are there any concerts locally that he might like to see that you could get him tickets for?

SkaneTos · 14/12/2023 23:24

ThisHouseWillBeTheDeathOfMe · 14/12/2023 22:45

A wall calendar is a good idea...DM has hers, I wonder if he'd like one of his own.

Do you think it's problematic to have two, incase they aren't checking each others/writing appointments in two different places?

Yes, you might want to check that first. Perhaps ask your mother.

My parents have several wall calendars, but only one that they write things on, and that one my mother buys herself. The calendars I give them are among all the other calendars, and they are just because they are pretty to look at, and because my parents like to have a wall calendar in almost every room).

(My father loves it when the new month comes and he gets to walk around the house turning the page on all the calendars and see the new picture!)

justanothermanicmonday1 · 14/12/2023 23:25

Go outdoors voucher.

He's obsessed with the shop.

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ThisHouseWillBeTheDeathOfMe · 14/12/2023 23:29

He just doesn't spend vouchers. And he's a bit prickly about getting them as he sees them the same as cash, which he states "is not what you give as a present"

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caringcarer · 14/12/2023 23:40

A rose bush for the garden.
A framed photo of you and your Dad together.
Take him out for a cream tea or a day at the beach.

I so wish my Dad was still alive. I'd just want to give him a big cuddle.

justanothermanicmonday1 · 14/12/2023 23:41

ThisHouseWillBeTheDeathOfMe · 14/12/2023 23:29

He just doesn't spend vouchers. And he's a bit prickly about getting them as he sees them the same as cash, which he states "is not what you give as a present"

Hahaha tbh I agree here.

But my dad is very picky and he would rather choose something himself 🤣

IntheSnowySnowyMountains · 14/12/2023 23:44

Oh yes, agree with PP - a plant for the garden?

Travel mug, flask, or hip flask?

Socks? 😃😃😃

I bought my dad a lot of shirts and ties over the years, he liked to have a nice selection! So some kind of interesting shirt/top/sweater - whatever he wears?

Cologne/aftershave?

SkaneTos · 15/12/2023 00:13

I agree with previous posters, a plant for the garden is a great gift!

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