Which letter on necklace for Christmas present?

[Bellaboot]

If you were choosing a necklace that had a single letter... would you choose your own initial or the initial of your husband/children? The husband and children all share the name initial.

Well who is it a gift for?

My own

My own.

I'd think it was quite odd wearing someone else's initial!

A necklace for you to wear? Your own initial, of course, anything else seems weird as a stand-alone thing.

My own.

Jewellery with an initial for yourself or a relative seems intensely personal. Unless this has been requested specifically (which considering you're asking which initial to get is unlikely) I wouldn't get this for someone else.

Is this a gift for someone else? I think it would be weird to get their partner/children’s initials. If someone got me a necklace for Christmas with my partners initial on, I’d find it really weird.

My sister has asked for a specific necklace from my mum and for mum to choose which initial as a surprise 🤷.

Hm. I don’t think I’d wear my own initial. I’d probably wear DS’? I’m not sure. I don’t think I’d wear my husbands.

I’d probably get both, I think.

I don't think it matters. Anyone that knows you would know what the letter represented.

I’d like one which has the initials and birth stones of my kids.
I haven’t ever purchased jewellery, so am daunted, but I think combining the initial with the birthstone is a nice idea, maybe you you could have the 3 birthstones combined with their one initial?

I’d get her an X as a kiss to go with her wherever she goes.

Your own

Well that’s daft of your sister surely?

Mine, definitely. It would never occur to me to want anyone else’s!

My own!! It would be ever so slightly strange to wear a necklace with someone else's initial surely?!

Since it's a gift from your Mum, it should be her own. Because she should never forget that she's an amazing person herself: not only through her role as wife and mother. And who better than her own mother to remind her of that, since that's surely how her Mum sees her.

My husband’s because I am a swiftie!

My DH name. I think its weird to wear your own.

I’d choose the initial of husband/ children.

If just one initial then surely the person’s own.

Not DH initial, that’s just a bit odd. Maybe at a push then both DH and own initial makes some sense.
Or own and DH and DC initials all in a string.

If doing DC initials then one for each child even if they share the same initial.

Did she take her husband’s surname when they got married? If so, could it be the surname initial? This would cover the kids as well then.

I have a bracelet with the two initials of my children.

Probably my husband's.

I might tell mum to flip a coin🤣 I guess she thought it's novel for both husband and children to all have the same first initial so that's why the idea came up.

Thanks all!