What are you getting your Mums this year? Mine is 63

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Need some ideas and inspiration!

TIA

I get my mum a Good Housekeeping subscription. But it doesn't have to be that one; lots of magazines to choose from depending on what your mum is interested in.

I've done that for the last 2 years - I think she's a bit bored of them :O Although would never say!

Oh my face didn't work!

Ah yes ikwym - I have done the same but it's what she always seems to ask for.

How about a pamper day somewhere?

We've got PIL membership for the Royal Horticultural Society but visiting posh gardens is their 'thing' so not much good if (like me) you think once you've seen one garden you've seen them all

A pamper day is definitely something I'd like! However she's not really into all that beauty stuff.

She'd be overjoyed with anything I get her as she's so appreciative iykwim! But she does so much for us I want to get her something a bit more interesting and thoughtful

My mum's 63. I have bought her

Stieg Larsson (sp?) book triology
Paloma Faith's new cd
some beautiful wooden earrings
a calendar from dd
3 canvases painted by dd
a lovely photo of her & dd she's not seen printed large in a beautiful frame I made!
this dress which she'll wear over a black polo neck & leggings an this one which I have in 3 colours & she loves.
Am also getting tickets to Flamenco ballet.

ok, have read monkeysmama's post and now feel like the meanest daughter going!

I am getting my mum a voucher (which I will fashion myself) for a day's course at the Royal College of Needlework (that being her thing). I also have bought her the latest Stephanie Meyer.

She's 64, btw.

That Elemis set, shes 44.

My mum is 67 - she's getting a photobook of our year (with captions to remind her as has memory problems), and some books.

FIL always has the same mag subscription, and actually gets quite worried that DH won't renew it for him as he enjoys it so much

I'm very close to my mum , she's great. And she's very "young". She'd think I'd lost the plot if I bought Good Housekeeping etc.

Mine is getting:

That Elemis set
A thingy made of ceramic to attract bees to the garden
A bird table and bath
Jo Malone soaps
The grandparents journal thingy someone linked to a while back
Inspector Morse dvd boxed set
Thornton's chocs
Book about growing up in the 50s.
Photobook and calendar of dd.

(seems a lot, but nothing, I repeat nothing, cost its RRP and a lot of it was hugely coded or ebayed!)

my mums 63 too and I'm buying her a new bag, a Nica purse, some Fenjal bath oil and a big framed picture of my DC's

my mum's dead silly, so i have bought her a teddy bear from truprint (special offer) that has a photo of me & OH on his teeshirt! (she collects teddy bears)

she and dad are getting a home-made christmas pudding too (made in a posh bowl)

I'm not allowed to spend a lot of money on her.

oh, and walnut whips, if i can find any!

A top she asked for and Killers Dvd. She's 62 going on 18

I have bought my mum:
susan boyles album
some slipper boot things that she has been going on about for ages
and a poetry book she had as a little girl "a childs garden of verse by robert louis stevenson. she waants to read it to my little ones and my niece which i think is cute.
might get her a sodoku book too.

Tickets for Alan Bennett's new play. MiL is getting Nigella's salad hand things and a scarf from Kew.

I've got my mum a coat, slippers with hard soles, Thornton's special toffee, Long Way Around DVD (we'd brought a different charley Boorman series to watch when we went to visit her in septe and she liked him, so this was the result), and I need to pick up a couple of throws for her.

What is the Elemis set? I like Elemis!

I got my mum & nanny the grandmother book together last year & my mum says she's had some of her best evenings in years filling it in with her mum & laughing about memories. My nanny is 95 so the stories she puts in there will be so different to dd's life exeriences when she's old enough to read it.

T'is on the promo code thread (all Shiney's fault) It was on QVC last Sunday and MN bought the lot!

Great walnut whips usually for sale at counter in M&S Saintnickelas

Unfortunately my mum dies several years ago but i wish i'd given her the grandparents memories book as there are so many questions i wish i'd asked her

I've bought my mum (and MIL) (61 and 63) an electronic photo frame each and a 2Gb card to go in it and crammed it full of family pics.

They also have calendars for next year with photos of my DCs on and homemade cards

oh and my mum has the boxed DVD set of Gimme Gimme

I found a silly kitschy vintage brooch of two highland terriers, I know it'll make her smile! I found it online, there's loads of vintage stuff around and it doesn't cost the earth.

spooks on DVD, and a wooden penguin

Wow! loads of responses thanks!

Will definitely do some pics in frames of my boys.

What is this grandparents book? Do you make it and get them to fill it in?

She likes suduko

Monkeysmama you're a much better daughter than me!

Can I now be cheeky and ask what you're getting your Dads?! Mine is 70 perhaps I should start a new thread!

Right I'm off to town AGH!